"We feel that any possible rumors and Streisand effects of a 50 year ban are far exceeded by how bad things actually are. Thank you for the chance to be a mattress-fucking sock puppet on Lemmy."
- CS Execs, probably
Gradually_Adjusting
joined 1 year ago
Genuinely gross. They could have built their own community here and acted as leaders, instead they're tightening their grip on a weak power trip.
I attribute the perceived fading momentum has a lot to do with Reddit itself. There's a reason wall street wants a piece of reddit, and it has nothing to do with however profitable "making redditors look at ads" is.
This is why we've caught alien spaceships and they still ain't say hi
I'm so interested, but question one for me is: can you build quickly? I have pretty limited gaming time these days.
Tangentially, does anyone know why we stopped having cool words for different kinds of software? We used to have daemons and wizards. Now everything's an app, and it's lame.
FTL has complete overhaul mods and expansions that can make it seem new even now.
A distant cause is likely the changes in monetary policy (rate hikes). The tech sector has been structuring their capital as if borrowing would always be cheap, and they were unprepared for a sudden flight toward sustainable cash flow.
I think their only hope for "fuck you money" at this point is to cash out at IPO and watch it burn.
He bought it to completely destroy it because it was one of the few big social media platforms that didn't give a distinct advantage to RWNJs.
It's weird to me that this isn't more commonly believed, because his main aim with all this is to make America more oligarchic (i.e. great again) and become an oligarch, as is the fashion among rich white supremacists.
Not to get political.