$4 would get you an egg sandwich, a coffee and a pack a smokes in ‘83.

Should we start a pool on how far it gets?

I’ll raise you with… “I know I’m looking for something. What the hell am I looking for?”

In addition to the reasons already mentioned, Apple has a requirement that applications have a novel component. While it's often questionable as to what is considered "novel" Weather applications get contrasted against the built-in weather app. If the app simply duplicates the functionality it will be rejected.

There's plenty of us here but we're not as noticeable. We're old enough that we've learned to stop incessantly complaining about shit that doesn't matter yet not so old that all we do is incessantly complain about shit that doesn't matter.

Circle of life.

I'm an older X. Another ten years and I'll be on my porch yelling "get off my lawn" and "not in my backyard", carrying on the tradition laid out by my forefathers.

Somewhat of a loaded question but, if we need to scroll through their comment history meticulously to separate real from bot, does it really matter at that point?

SPAM is SPAM and we’re all in agreement that we don’t want bots junking up the communities with low effort content. However if they reach the point that it takes real effort to ferret them out they must be successfully driving some sort of engagement.

I’m not positive that’s a bad thing.

It’s rock solid. It also has a heavy emphasis on security. Numerous high-end network routers and security devices use it as the base operating system. Darwin, the open source foundation of macOS is also derived from it.

Fitz Benwaballs

Good stuff. That’s my entire motivator, transparency. KBin makes it obvious that up/down isn’t anonymous, Lemmy doesn’t. Much like Reddit, Lemmy also doesn’t delete posts, they just get tagged as deleted and not shown via the interface.

When literally anybody in the world can be an admin with no vetting process and no “internal controls” that you would expect from a commercial platform, having a clear view of how things work is critical so that people can make informed decisions on how (or even if) they use the platform.

Thank you for considering that. There's certainly many people who left Reddit so they aren't "slurping up all their data" anymore. Missing the point that, yes, yes they are.

Not everybody shares the same habits.

Here's a scenario... Some admins are using data to build correlations between accounts. Linking main account to alternates. So far that I've seen the purpose has been to identify bot activity. A good thing.

The same analysis could also be used to build correlation between a main account that's hard right leaning and an alt-account that may be sympathetic to left-leaning or progressive topics, such as LGBTQ+ rights. Not so much a good thing.

I think it's fair to say that many people will not consider the fact that, literally, anybody in the world can have access to much of this data. It's not limited to your two or three instance administrators.

Deleted items just get marked as 'removed', the content remains in the database. I can see the comment you deleted on https://lemmy.world/post/955546.

Overwrites appear to replace the original content. I can see when you edited this comment but can't see what the edit was.