More like chiroquacktors! Haha, you get it? Because…

Thing is, industrial revolution bleeds into colonialism. Sure, there was colonialism before industrialization, and colonialism would look very different in a time before nation-states as we know them today, but those resources will have to come from somewhere.

Metallurgy is always where they get you on these things. You can bring stuff like division of labor, assembly lines, and replaceable parts back in time pretty easily, but good luck getting aluminum for your bicycles in any kind of quantity. Not sure how well a bronze bicycle would work, but I bet it could be done.

Selection is bad, price is meh. If you have the red card for the extra 5% it helps balance things out some. I go because it’s convenient where I live, but I wouldn’t go out of my way to buy groceries there.

AI poses an existential threat to humanity

AI:

So THAT’S where they were going

There was one Voat. When the one Voat goes bust, Voat goes bust. Like any enterprise, it’s failure can be attributed, at least in part, to poor management.

There are many Lemmy’s. If one Lemmy collapses, another Lemmy can take its place. The individual instances might be less stable than a centralized social media site, like Voat was, but when federated the whole unit is more resilient than centralized social media.

Batten down the hatches!

The tech bubble is over (kinda, they’re trying to spin it back up with AI) and so is the free money party. Rates are rising, and investors aren’t content to throw money at companies that still don’t know how they’re going to make any money. To make money, they’ve got to squeeze it out of somebody: either users or advertisers.

In Twitter’s case, they squeezed it out of a vain billionaire who they convinced to buy the company. The shareholders got their money, and now making a profit is somebody else’s problem. Reddit could’ve similarly tried to court a buyer, but there’s no guarantee they would have found one (maybe Meta?). Instead they’re trying to a gin up some revenue either out of third party apps or by pushing third party app users onto the main app so they can advertise to them. I haven’t been following Discord and Meta’s stuff, but the reasoning is probably similar.

Funny yet sad that it’s come to reddit botting their own platform to try and shore up support for themselves.

I think the only way around stuff like this is to have some alts hanging around. This account is an alt to the same-name lemmy.ml account, but now only the lemmy.ml account can see beehaw stuff. It’s a shame, because beehaw did seem to have something good going with their more curated communities. They could have put out a call for moderators if that’s what they need, but instead they decided to close the gates.

I wouldn’t be afraid to make a bunch of alts. Simply having an alt account doesn’t put strain on the servers. It’s the using it that does. Until then, it can lie in wait, inactive, without much impact.