[-] fidodo@lemm.ee 44 points 1 year ago

Why was this written like this? It makes no sense. I'll git blame it and ask them what's going on. Oh it's me...

[-] fidodo@lemm.ee 193 points 1 year ago

They think the sun works like a spot light. I'm not kidding. It's the dumbest shit

https://wiki.tfes.org/Flat_Earth_-_Frequently_Asked_Questions#How_do_you_explain_day.2Fnight_cycles_and_seasons.3F

In their own gif they need to make the light the sun puts out oblong which makes no fucking sense and there's no explanation as to why you can't always see the moon.

It's so stupid it's embarrassing to even debunk them.

[-] fidodo@lemm.ee 41 points 1 year ago

Great way to lose all the best people at your company in a totally uncontrolled manner.

[-] fidodo@lemm.ee 90 points 1 year ago

This ruling seems to be really badly misinterpreted. The case wasn't for people using ai tools to create works but from a computer scientist who created a completely autonomous tool and was trying to co-copyright the works with the tool. Copyright needs human involvement, how much human involvement is still not hard law, but if you integrate the output of an AI and integrate it into a larger work that is very much covered.

[-] fidodo@lemm.ee 48 points 1 year ago

They probably spent a year looking for a job and they're suffering from imposter syndrome so they feel like if they aren't constantly getting stuff done they might be fired, plus they haven't worked enough to hit burnout and don't know how to pace themselves.

[-] fidodo@lemm.ee 49 points 1 year ago

Basically every in app browser is.

[-] fidodo@lemm.ee 54 points 1 year ago

My issue with the soviets wasn't that they were communists, it's that they were fascists.

[-] fidodo@lemm.ee 41 points 1 year ago

Non compete clauses are illegal in California.

It's dumb that they're not illegal everywhere but Twitter and Facebook are both located there.

[-] fidodo@lemm.ee 40 points 1 year ago

I like it but can't wait until we stop talking about Reddit

[-] fidodo@lemm.ee 90 points 1 year ago

It's so weird to see all the people still fighting on Reddit when I've already moved on

[-] fidodo@lemm.ee 51 points 1 year ago

In retrospect those were ridiculously optimistic

[-] fidodo@lemm.ee 103 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The big difference with Lemmy is that it's not really a service, it's a open protocol and standard, like email, or http. The service itself is provided by distributed instances that adhere to the protocol. Like those protocols, no one company has been able to get a monopoly on it. Some have taken over a lot of it, like Google with Gmail, or cloudflare, but if you don't want to work with them there are a ton of other options you can go with, and you will not be locked out of the system if you do.

Reddit was a centralized closed source system so if you don't have a Reddit account then you are locked out of the system completely.

Lemmy is decentralized so no one instance has or can gain a monopoly. If you want to break ties with one instance you can just switch to another one and still participate with it and the rest of the fediverse.

Not only does that give you choice in a worst case scenario, it also keeps all the instances on their toes because they don't have dictatorial control over their users.

Spez's fatal miscalculation was that he thought he had user lock in, but unlike other social networks where it's your only option to keep in contact with your real life friends, or it's the only platform your favorite creator posts on, they had neither. Almost all accounts were not connected to your real life and posts were mostly links to other platforms. Very few creators had Reddit as their sole posting platform. The interactions were ephemeral and superficial. Dropping Reddit was the easiest service I ever had to drop.

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