I love this story, thanks for sharing it.

To heck with you for your stupid opinion, everyone is obviously always positive here

Subs=subscriptions.

Was wild logging in this morning to see it and thinking “yep this is going to be a hit” and coming back to see the highest voted Lemmy post ever

Glad another Marxist said it. The problem isn’t that capitalism was always the wrong choice, it’s that we’re clinging to it long beyond its best before date.

I’m puzzled what’s surprising about this.

I’m not LGBT, or American, but seeing people online suddenly talk openly with a great deal more vitriol and hatred about my friends, and even my child, caused me a fair bit of stress.

Compared to account growth that’s low but a 33% growth in four days is hard to call “low”

There’s no way to prevent it entirely. A larger community will slide that way.

I do think that it can be less encouraged though.

I don’t really want to miss my family for that long. Maybe I’d go back to when my kids were babies and become a live-in nannydad? I could see that getting weird though.

If I didn’t have that level of control but I absolutely had to go somewhen, I guess I’d either go a few decades in the future to see how it shapes up, or to the neolithic era so I could finally find out a bunch of things we’d never otherwise have known. That era seems like it was pretty cool, and I happen to know enough baseline science to actually recreate some of my favourite amenities.

Unfortunately i won’t be around to find out, it was an old account id forgotten about and hadn’t yet deleted. I have remedied that because I mostly don’t give a shit what dumb thing Reddit is up to.

They’re not slaves. They’re rubes, but not slaves.

I highly doubt it. There’s no shortage of people willing to do it for free.

Yes, they apparently are going to remove me from the private subreddit I had set up a few years back for bot testing.

They’re a joke.

I don’t think there is one, but I’d definitely subscribe. Menslib was an excellent breath of fresh air after the Mra movement tried to set us back fifty years.

No idea, maybe people don’t know the sub and assume it’s Mra? Menslib was an excellent subreddit and I really want to see it back.

This still adds another moving part to duping people. It’s much, much easier to independently verify the software if it’s open source.

Yeah I have a cork-leather wallet, it’s awesome. Lasting better than my prior two supposedly leather ones. Not sure it would work as a belt though, idk

Timecube, eh? Haven’t seen that in a hot minute. Or maybe four corner rotations of a hot minute.

It’s exhausting seeing all these cringy “we’re going to win with shitposts” things when all we really need is for people to post actual content.

In my opinion we’re already more or less at the “functional” stage. I can browse the place and shitpost and stay entertained for quite a while, with new content coming in while I do it, so that if I’m so inclined I can spend a full day pissing away my time on lemmy. It’s nowhere near Reddit yet, where I could pick any given topic and read almost infinitely on it, but that’s a function both of time and size, and not a reasonable expectation for a brand new platform. As long as the numbers we have now are sustainable they’ll become self-improving in that direction.