How is this not going to increase the amount of bots, endless re-posts and in general FUD they get inundated with?
On the surface it sounds great and all, but to me it seems like it will accelerate the site being the shithole that it was headed to. Introducing money into anything like this typically brings out the worse in people.
Hey California, you seeing this?
I was looking for that exact same thing.
Something tells me this news from Egypt will get a lot less press even though it probably is even more Important.
purple car and a green truck
Tell me you drive Dodge without telling me you drive Dodge.
Orange is probably the bulk of the cords sold, so green is made in lower quantities and thus higher per-unit cost.
I’d be happy to spend $1k more for better colors, but many new cars don’t even come in any interesting colors regardless of the price.
Hell, many of the communities barely show up when you search within Lemmy!
I know there are places on this site that I have no idea where they are, and I’ve been here like 2 months now.
This looks like the perfect Lemmy post.
A bunch of people who know fuck-all about the subject matter at hand (in this case construction), and then sprinkle in the usual anti-American bias that flavors a large number of posts on this site. The only thing missing seems to be something dealing with Linux or some pro-commie spin.
Tell me you know nothing about construction without telling me you know nothing about construction.
That was one of the best things I’ve seen in a while.
This is one of the biggest opportunities in recent years for a new social media platform to come up and establish itself and Lemmy seems to be totally squandering the opportunity. The fact that the active user count is dropping so fast, should be very worrying.
I think a lot of it has been mentioned by @rr7@lemmy.world, but it isn’t just what is here, but also what isn’t there. Namely the lack of posts in communities outside a handful of political ones. Social media should be some form of conversation and yet if you go to lots of the slightly more esoteric communities and there are few posts and even fewer replies to those posts. You’ll basically be talking to yourself if you want to talk about cars or the latest gadget or asking for help on some DIY project.
There are like 50,000 active users. That is the metric that matters above all else.
People that make an account and never post (which is where that 400,000 number you are referring to comes from) means next to nothing. If the number of active users continues to decrease, then this site will be dead, regardless of what the user count it.
There is the old cliche that during holiday dinner there is always that one right-wing uncle who never shuts the fuck about politics (these days being during Thanksgiving and how great Trump is). Everyone finds what this uncle is saying is cringe as hell.
Well, that’s kind of what Lemmy is becoming, but for the far-left.
If it is in a political community, it is one thing. And to a large degree, I might even agree with most left-of-center views.
But there is an endless stream of edgy pro-commie and similar posts and a dearth of other light-hearted posts to counter balance it. Almost all communities outside the ones listed above get no traffic, so there’s no point in trying to start a conversation about cars or DIY projects or electronics. Hell, even the NSFW communities on Lemmy are rather lame.
Am I the only one who didn’t know they were considering a name change?
And as much as I hate to agree, China in this case is right. What’s a name change going to do other than be a distraction when they have so many other problems?
so much so that the president acknowleged it
Acknowledging it is the first step to improving it. We have Republicans who have the gall to claim that we have the best healthcare in the world.
Western companies have been essentially training the Chinese for a few decades now, so yes, it basically has been inevitable.
Did you miss the part where you said Mexico?
How high are you right now?
I don’t know what hex-bear is.
Fuck Israel