Except they’ve already attempted this against much bigger fries, and lost. The precedence goes the other way.

If you think Lemmy is even on their radar when reddit still hosts much bigger communities having all the same conversations, you’re crazy. I would bet they don’t even know we exist yet.

The troll responsible for this is from another instance, and has been demanding that all other big instances do this. Maybe take it up with them?

If the admin are in cahoots with the crypto mining douchebag, then no part of the site is safe.

Sorry, he’s out of the shower now.

You’re forgetting misfires can happen soon after ejaculation (and probably other things).

Scuba suit with a parachute.

No, he came in in a scuba suit.

Gfycat is shutting down, sadly. There’s no money to be had in hosting pictures and videos for other sites that are viewed without ads. We already saw the Imgur clamp down a month or so ago. If these instances can’t self host the content it’s all going to have an invisible expiration date.

I’ve gotta figure if Putin was going to kill him he’d want to do it publicly. They love to put on a show, like with novichok.

I mean a lot of the content posted on reddit wasn’t actually made by the posters to begin with. Everybody’s just sharing memes they found on other platforms.

The first decade of Reddit’s life it was just pulling content from 4chan and Digg. I would not be surprised to see the fediverse operate similarly.

Registering to all instances with the same username/password is just asking for trouble. They’re not all equal and some of them will get hacked somehow.

This very much feels to me like the beginning of a Civ game, where we’re all fresh nations with different starting conditions that are exploring our territories and building up armies…

The first schism is gonna be fairly dramatic, I’ll bet.

You have evidence this is happening on Spotify’s Discover Weekly playlist?

Just wanna remind folks that when Steve Huffman founded reddit it was just him and a couple friends with dozens of alt accounts. The first decade of Reddit’s life it was just ripping content from Digg and 4chan to rehost.

Lemmy will grow, and probably in a very similar way.

Yeah, that’s what I figured. It’s a neat proof of concept but I’ll never use it.

I think the opposite of upliftingnews is just… news.

How safe is it to log in to a lemmy instance through this? Seems like it could easily be used for phishing.

Can’t. I’m addicted to the algorithms. Music discovery guided by AI is too much fun. If I was only using streaming services to listen to music I already know or the new albums from artists I already like them I’d be with you, but now I’m hooked on finding new stuff.