I don’t know what will actually end up working, but I hope we try something new soon.

Personally I don't think there is a one-size-fits-all solution. Each problem needs a different approach. We need to figure out how to have all these systems work in tandem.

This is going to be a total noob (and thus stupid) question, but is it possible to selfhost a vpn?

I take the occasional peek to see if it imploded yet. I do miss certain communities. Only last week I was looking for some info on a historical subject. Google turned up nothing so I wanted to r/askHistorians. I hate they decided to stay on reddit and don't switch to lemmy.

Is he scraping the barrel or just short of loose change?

[-] depressed_submissive@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I get that, but it is irrational. They can plan such a thing, esp. when they do it in ~~concord~~ consort. Just prepopulate the new lemmy communities with some content, ask some regulars/power-posters to become active first. Then setup a site that simplifies the signing-up tot lemmy/kbin and make a big announcement before you abandon reddit. Sure, at first the amount of people will decline. But as Reddit will have problems assigning new mods to all those big subreddits the quality over there will go down further. It won't be an easy or even fast switch, but sometimes it's best to just start over.

I just don't understand why mods form big, popular subreddits don't switch over to lemmy/kbin/whatever? If it is sunk cost fallacy that is irrational. They have a big following, all they have to do is say "hey guys, we are moving to another site. Go to sign up." If it is because (as some people suggest, not me) they are power-hungry mods and fear losing that power, it is also irrelevant since they can host their own instance and have all the power they want. If they could organize a blackout, surely they can organize an exodus? What am I missing?

[-] depressed_submissive@lemmy.fmhy.ml 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

At some point in the future, everyone who is currently alive, will be dead and the earth will be populated with people who do not exist yet.

Since I was born when my parent were in their late 30's. And my father was as well, so my paternal grandfather was born in the 1890's. When I was a kid he told me stories of his childhood. I was only 9 when he died, and at the time his stories were just that; stories. Now (I'm in my 50's) I wish I had asked him things about those times. He was born and grew up in a world (mostly) without electricity, and without cars, phones, etc.

He was someone from a totally different world, and I knew him.

Added later: He was born "only" 129 years ago, everyone alive then, is now dead.

I'm wondering/imagining. Did he walk into a diy store to get that thing himself or did one of his employees do it? Did he buy it an hour before or a day before? What goes through one's mind to think "I'll go buy a sink and have my picture taken with it, that'll be funny". Was there a meeting about this?

[-] depressed_submissive@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have trouble wrapping my mind around the fact the is some sort of market value to be had by paying 42,000 per month to twitter. Edit: by "market value" I mean...imagine the amount of people that could sustain in their basic needs. How does this help anyone...I'm probably just dense.

ohh, hyped about the scents.... my olfactory nerve is trembling in anticipation, and I'm losing control of my sphincter. Which is never a good combination.

Then I will wait patiently until you do 🙂 And thank you very much for your work and dedication.

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Sorry if this is obvious, but I fail to find where I can donate to fmhy. I see the support button on top, but that donates to lemmy if I'm not mistaken? How/where do I donate to you guys directly?

It’s up in the air how many will stay and how many will slowly forget their outrage at Reddit and go back.

If I wasn't already that truth would make me depressed.

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With Reddit, and perhaps also Twitter. Personally I deleted my accounts on both platforms and came here today, because I feel it was the moral thing to do. And I hope both platforms will burn down, and the new way forward is more community-driven social media instead of capitalist-driven. But realistically I think both will just slowly get worse in terms of quality (well, twitter doesn't have much quality content for a while now anyway) and muddle through for a while. In the end it could go either way I think? What are your thoughts on where those platforms will end up, realistically?

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