This. Those who would purposely catch these to get a nation of vegetarians like some people have mentioned would be giving people Lyme disease and other nasties that come with being bitten by a tick. These aren’t things to mess around with.
Everyone else: 311223
I don’t buy cheap shit, stop assuming man. I have never met someone with such a chip on their shoulder Get help
So based on a subset of people who are entitled you are tarring everybody in existence with the same brush. Affordability, cost of living and wages are a whole other fucking issue related to CEO greed. Which is out of the scope of the discussion. The fact you are so bitter about this means it’s probably time to find a new job lmao
Are you serious? Where did I mention buying things cheap? That’s a funny looking straw man you built from nothing. Literal premium flagship phones like Apple/Samsung have planned obsolescence It isn’t about buying a cheap product when a lot of busineses follow such shitty practices
Why are you blaming the consumer for a problem businesses have created. Planned obsolescence, doesn’t matter how many $$$$ you put into a product. It has a shelf life. Especially with more tech
Even if they could invent self-repairing appliances/phones they wouldn’t do it… Because then they couldn’t sell you new thing
Company: You need to have everything ready before the start of your shift.
Me: Do I get paid for coming in early?
Company: No
Me: Okay, if I’m starting before my shift time then I am going home early to make up for the lost time.
Company: If you leave 1 minute early we have to deduct an hour from your wages
Me: leaves
Company: nobody wants to work anymore.
Companies have normalised wage theft but call it what it is. It’s theft.
The top left one is kinda cool, ngl. Not very effective but think of the jabbing you could do with it!
Natural, healthy, positive growth! Not growth for growths sake
Hopefully, Since thread is the new cool thing I hope it survives long enough to do so
It’s the best and worst thing to happen to the internet.
Best because - Twitter is a toxic site, with toxic people and a system that encourages ragebaiting means it breeds it.
Worst because - These negative people need somewhere to go… And it will only force them onto alternatives and fester in new places. Potentially here.
Microplastics are the new teflon. The new secret seasoning
It reminds me of a diagram of the insides of a human bone. Pretty metal, ngl
This is amazing OP! Very nice work, if this is the rough, I can’t wait to see the final
I remember this from something awful first, that was the 00s lol
I’ve stated my points and I have nothing more to add. This is an impass in my eyes. There are multiple methods but we both have the same goal to preserve and bolster the Lemmy platform as a whole which there is nothing wrong with but I am hard set on where I stand on this. Good talk
In a place as vast as the fediverse can be and at such early stages you have the power to make bigger changes than you would on Reddit.
You have the power to shape the culture of Lemmy, can you ask the owners of these communities to change course? Absolutely.
Do they have to oblige? No, not unless the instance rules dictate they have to, but that is entirely at the discretion of the instance admins. Then there are a lot of instances each with their own rules and culture.
I think you’re being hyperbolic, but you will have diverse opinions on this matter, and the only right answer is what results in foot traffic for the Fediverse and drives interest. In the end our goals are the same but done differently.
My answer to why should you move is, you are going to need to change the mind of every potential new person who joins with an idea to lift content from Reddit, I commend you if you have the time to do that, but I personally don’t. It’s easier to shape the culture of a website when you have a level of influence to be an example to what is the gold standard so to speak.
You also have to be very careful because there is an elitest attitude that might push people away from Lemmy entirely.
I will talk because lifting content from Reddit is how mildly Infuriating got its feet off the ground in the first place, and has the subscriber count it has.
It hasn’t relied only on that, I have been finding my own original content and posting it there myself but it’s hard when I feel I am the only one actively contributing. Many people here still are very much lurkers and will only want to scroll through what other people post and not make their own content.
There isn’t anything wrong with that, but you are going to find people won’t keep coming back without things to keep them interested.
That said context matters, there is a difference between a hobbiest community, and somewhere like mildly Infuriating where it’s a place to just share things that mildly Infuriates people. Whether right or wrong, I do not see an issue with Reddit reposts or reposts from anywhere but I hope more people do actually create content… And I also hope the people in this thread who are against Reddit reposts are actively engaging communities themselves or you aren’t really setting up these communities for success.
I do not agree with bot reposting, I feel that would end in diminishing returns anyway, whilst you have mountains of content, you have too much content and it doesn’t give people enough time to build up discussions and drowns out people who will legitimately post their own threads. Meaning you will likely not see anyone bother posting at all.
In the end… Banning outright, doesn’t feel right. Having them exist as their own places, whilst not something I 100% agree with don’t think getting the pitchforks out and wanting them to disappear is the answer when you can make your own community on another instance and grow it organically. Then block ones that you don’t like. Which you will be doing regardless as we have federated instances that will not align with you morally/ethically anyway until they are eventually defederated if at all.
Don’t meet your heroes