It’s fear of calcification. Lemmy is tiny, in terms of our user base.
If we don’t get fresh blood, and most importantly the rare active contributors, we’ll just get used to talking to each other, we’ll get bored or burned out and leave.
It’s fear of calcification. Lemmy is tiny, in terms of our user base.
If we don’t get fresh blood, and most importantly the rare active contributors, we’ll just get used to talking to each other, we’ll get bored or burned out and leave.
You’d be surprised.
I have a RL friend who’s on Reddit all the time, and he didn’t even hear about the shutdown, much less /r/place, or anything like lemmy. I’ve been trying to sell it to him…
Re: The “We’re elite” becomes “We’re bored talking among the same old people” or “We’re burned out”, leading to users leaving and formerly thriving communities dying.
I’ve been around long enough to see this happen on multiple forums.
Or anything the devs can do to make it not look goofy.
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It’s part of the ol’ Big Tech playbook:
If a promising emerging competitor emerges:
Image rendering attacks and download tracking are well known, so it’s not paranoid at all.
I’m not sure how extensive the spam wave was, nor how quickly the user was able to create an account, make the comments.
I doubt that the quantity in that I came across would be enough to take down a server, but that may be the point: To test lemmy’s collective defenses and response without drawing too much attention.
A common IP address or address range ban file that’s frequently updated and downloaded by each instance might be another way to boost security.
If this is actually an org attack, I’m guessing that we’ll see botnet DDOS comment and post attacks next.
It looks like some kind of fix was implemented after my post, so I can’t replicate the problem for you.
Whenever I edit one of my cross-instance posts, the language defaults to English, and I can save my edits with no issues.
Now whether the fix was on an instance basis, i.e. config changes, or in some Lemmy-system update, I can’t tell you.
edit: Maybe my issue was solved along with the fix for the default languages: https://lemmy.ml/post/13410320
I disagree that people suck.
I think that enshittification on any SM platform, whether free and open, or built for commerce, happens when companies try to exploit it for commercial gain.
Take Usenet for example: At the beginning it was great, then spammers found they could post unlimited spam across the newsgroups for free, and it became shit, barring a few groups where mods had to work very hard to weed out the spam to keep them readable, but eventually collapsed, and people moved on to the new platforms.
Reddit, was built for ads and tracking its users to start with, so the gradual creep of enshittification was no surprise there.
And now we have nation-state backed disinformation campaigns to deal with in addition to commercial spam.
I could see Lemmy and the Fediverse in general taking a similar path to Usenet, if the devs, admins, and mods aren’t vigilant about keeping bad actors out.
I like the Fediverse’s guarantor feature for adding new instances, but we’ll have to see how well it holds up under assault from spammers.
Someone just gave me a workaround for this:
Before saving the edits, select a language, other than “Undetermined”.
After doing that, my edits to the posts saved normally
Bad bot
I’m trying to say report a bug and the steps to re-create the bug.
The prisoner, Dotson, was “found dead” so who knows how many hours the body was lying there.
That pretty much precludes any use of the heart for transplant.
His relatives said they received the body in a decomposed state, but that could have been poor storage by the coroner before or after the autopsy, or the body might have been well hidden inside the prison so it was a long time before someone found it.
The article isn’t very clear on the condition of the body at each stage of handling.
What’s in the article is probably all the information that the reporter could get out of the prison authority, the state Department of Forensic Sciences, and the University.
I disagree somewhat.
A lot of high tech development comes with a greed motive, e.g. IPO, or getting bought out by a large company seeking to enter the space, e.g. Google buying Android, or Facebook buying Instagram and Oculus.
And conversely, a lot of open source software are copies of commercially successful products, albeit they only become widely adopted after the originals have entered the enshittified phase of their life.
Is there a Lemmy without Reddit? Is there a Mastodon without Twitter? Is there LibreOffice without Microsoft Office and decades of commercial word processors and spreadsheets before that? Or OpenOffice becoming enshittified for that matter? Is there qBittorrent without uTorrent enshittified? Is there postgreSQL without IBM’s DB2?
The exception that I can see is social media and networked services that require active network and server resources, like Facebook YouTube, or even Dropbox and Evernote.
Okay, The WELL is still around and is arguably the granddaddy of all online services, and has avoided enshittification, but it isn’t really open source.
It’s kind of hard to say… Johnnie To’s movies with Sammi Cheng don’t get enough credit from the largely male HK film audience: Wu Yen, Love On A Diet, Needing You, and My Left Eye Sees Ghosts.
But in general To’s stuff gets enough international acclaim.
Or got acclaim. HK movies have really fallen off the radar since DVDs became obsolete due to streaming/piracy.
And that was a long time ago.
Honestly I haven’t watched anything new since 2007.
There’s a lot for me to catch up on!
Yes, here.
Checkout Johnnie To Kei Fung’s directed movies.
He’s most famous for 90s kung fu action classics like Heroic Trio, and The Barefoot Kid and 00s triad films like the Election movies.
But like most HK directors, the dude does everything from romcom, Chinese New Year’s, police dramas to downright weirdness like the Buddhism themed Running On Karma and the Kurosawa’s Sanshiro Sugata judo tribute Throwdown.
They’re almost all great.
Not so much movies where he’s producing only
I’ve been looking for a new home since http://lovehkfilm.com/ stopped posting new reviews.
Sooo, who wants to develop the open source hookup app based on the Fediverse?