[-] alex@geddit.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So use Mastodon. Problem solved. Twitter is toxic. You can't fix Twitter without fixing the whole culture.

Getting rid of Elon (in some hypothetical universe where you could do that) & restoring the site's design back to what it used to be isn't going to change the toxic culture. Twitter only selectively enforces their own rules and it's been that way since Jack Dorsey was in charge.

(Here's an example: I can think of a few tweets where people are ganging up on someone and those are still there to this day. Their rules are very clearly 'no harassment and no dogpiling' and they've always been that way. Do you think they give a damn to enforce their own rules? Only when Elon's right-wing buddies are being attacked, then they bother.)

Restoring the site's design back to what it used to be isn't going to magically fix the toxic culture (people sniping, dogpiling, attacking others etc). Better if we just set the whole thing on fire and start from scratch, build something new - oh wait, we have that. It's called Mastodon. The learning curve isn't that bad. But that would be learning something new. That would be actively doing something other than complaining.

Why would you want to back to a place where a billionaire or a corporation collects all your personal data? If you like that sort of thing, go to Threads, Bluesky, Post, etc. Nobody's stopping you.

[-] alex@geddit.social 13 points 1 year ago

https://nerdist.com/article/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-musical-episode-choreographer-cinematographer-interview-klingon-boy-band/

The Klingon boy band made the final cut, thankfully. However, they shot two versions of the Klingons, led by Bruce Horak as the Klingon captain. The second was opera. Ultimately, the opera take felt too close to the other singing. Luckily, the Klingon boy band won.

[-] alex@geddit.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I repeat: geddit.social (this instance) is not a client. Nor is this community about that. You are confused between two different things called "geddit", neither of which are alike. We have nothing to do with them.

This website - geddit.social - has nothing to do with the other - unfortunately named - reddit client for Android, nor are we affiliated with reddit in any way, nor do we code anything that accesses reddit. I promise, we aren't lying to you. You are confusing two different things based on a similar name. You can go ahead and argue the point with me but your suggestions are not going to reach their intended audience & you'll be wasting your time.

Here's the difference:

  • That app, also named geddit, has a github page, which you've mentioned. Did you look at their about section? It's on the right side of the page. Humour me and go look. Did you notice the website that is listed there? You might want to open it and check...because this isn't it. The two couldn't be more different visually. This website has dark mode on default. That website has a blindingly white background. The difference is extremely striking.

  • This website (geddit.social) is a Lemmy instance owned by stux (you may have heard of the cat who runs mstdn.social, masto.ai, mastodon.coffee, among other fun services), which is an open-source alternative to reddit, linked to other services such as Mastodon, Pixelfed, etc in something called the Fediverse, which you appear to be familiar with since you're posting from another Lemmy instance (lemmy.sdf.org). In fact, if you actually go to our website, geddit.social (humour me and go there, I'll wait), there are links at the bottom of every page that explain this is a Lemmy instance, just like the one you are using to post here.

Once again, that app and this website (geddit.social) are completely different entities (one accesses reddit, the other does not) and only share a similar name. We aren't an app or a client, let alone do we have anything to do with reddit. This is a website. Not an app. People use Lemmy apps to access this instance. Lemmy is a Fediverse server software that other apps access. I couldn't make the distinction any clearer. The name for this instance was chosen when we had no idea anything similarly named existed. It is just an unfortunate coincidence.

You are posting in !geddit@geddit.social - which is a community (on the geddit.social instance) about the instance itself (where we post news all our users should know). Nothing to do with anything that may or may not share a similar name. This is a completely different entity.

Once again, no, this website is NOT a client for reddit. In any conceivable sense. Nor do we have such a thing here.

[-] alex@geddit.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

geddit isn't a client, it's an instance/server of Lemmy (which has its own API). To say Lemmy doesn't have an API is false. It very much does. (In order for there to be apps for Lemmy, it would logically follow that there's an API for them to use.)

I am not a fan of a reddit relay (at least, not on here). We should be building a new community here rather than amplifying posts from the other place. Of course, you are free to set up your own instance that does this but I won't be supporting that here.

I'd like to know how you'd propose to set up something like that, considering reddit API access is unreasonably expensive (which prompted the exodus away from reddit in the first place). Because you need a way to talk to reddit too. That's what APIs do ("application programming interface" - it's in the name). In my understanding, you can't just code something like that without a) accessing reddit's API to read posts and b) accessing lemmy's API to write them. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, though. They're not going to let you scrape their data for free.

But if you have a secret gold mine stashed away somewhere that you can afford this, why not contribute to the continuing development of lemmy or this instance instead of spending it on reddit's API access? You know, it's just a thought.

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[-] alex@geddit.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Correction: Uhura*

That's a lot of words just to say "we know nothing".

[-] alex@geddit.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just to clear something up, CalcKey is now known as Firefish(.social) and that's run by a completely different person.

[-] alex@geddit.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Excuse me, I'm going to go strain my neck by reading an upside-down picture.

shrug. They look logged-in to me. *pokes stux*

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A union representing about 160,000 Hollywood actors is poised to go on strike after talks with major studios and streaming services have failed.

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You know what they say about people in glass houses, right?

[-] alex@geddit.social 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just a suggestion, you might want to insert the word "allegedly" somewhere in there because Meta is refuting that assertion.

"To be clear: ‘No one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee — that’s just not a thing" - Andy Stone, Meta's communications director

edit: yes I know that doesn't preclude the possibility of Meta hiring former Twitter employees and not making them part of the Threads team.

[-] alex@geddit.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Short answer: No.

tl;dr answer: There's no tagging function in place unless you manually tag them using markdown, and that still wouldn't notify them. That would be a bandaid solution at best.

[-] alex@geddit.social 3 points 1 year ago

I still use it with a couple of friends on a private server.

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[-] alex@geddit.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There are no gymnastics necessary since he's not "our" Kirk. He's an alternate timeline Kirk. The only time we see the "real" Kirk (Lt. Kirk) is at the end of this episode where La'an space-Facetimes him.

[-] alex@geddit.social 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

referencing users on Lemmy is not at all the same as reddit, since there are multiple instances.

there's no automagic function for it (at least not on the web there isn't - that's probably why you couldn't find one), you just have to do it by hand.

ie. [@foreverwinter@lemmy.world](http://lemmy.world/u/foreverwinter) becomes: @foreverwinter@lemmy.world

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The Federal Trade Commission sued Amazon on Wednesday, alleging that the e-commerce giant has tricked millions of consumers into signing up for its Amazon Prime subscription service through deceptive user interface designs.

The complaint filed in the US District Court for the Western District of Washington also takes aim at Amazon for allegedly trying to keep users subscribed who wished to cancel their memberships.

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Why should you know this? You might be used to Reddit where you can’t edit titles.

When a post is edited (title or otherwise), a little pencil icon is shown to tell you it’s edited, just like comments.

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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has come out and said what legions of redditors feared – that a business plan to turn a profit by increasing the price of API access has been “reaffirmed” by a look at the Book of Musk.

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The European Parliament just caused a major headache for smartphone and tablet manufacturers.

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