As awful as that is, the design of those dumpsters will always lead to this. To put the bag in, you must hold the lid open well above your head (and higher than many people can reach) while holding a heavy bag of trash, then lift it even higher to get it in. If you are smaller than average (e.g. a child), physically disabled, or just not an able-bodied adult, that becomes impossible

You mean Musk? Because it seems that whatever insanity that Musk does, Spez wants to copy verbatim

And these are the people who stayed…

This really needs to be higher.

Running a Mastodon or Lemmy server is surprisingly cheap. With some specific tweaks and rules (esp. hosting images and video elsewhere), it can get even cheaper.

If your only goal is to break even, then it’s amazingly easy. Roughly 1 of every 20 users contributing $1/month. Adjust the numbers as you see fit.

Or a single, non-datamined ad at the top of the page.

Assuming it’s something like hair, you can usually use a drain snake, small hook, or the dollar store has these things that work surprisingly well:

I also find that the Drano-like things do not all work the same. I like the 10 minute hair clog remover from Zep (available at Lowe’s or Home Depot) more than the rest. It’s quick and easy, but it’s nowhere near as good as the thing above.

The only reason a for-profit business does anything for free is because it’s somehow tied to a payday somewhere else.

A free initial contact is really just an unpaid sales pitch.

This could get very, very complicated. A lot of mobile apps are nothing more than a slightly customized mobile web browser, complete with web bugs. Others are native code with raw API/etc calls. Some are a mixture. And all of that kinda misses the point of the data that people want when they see these reports.

I think the main purpose of these (and other link modifiers) is to deny them the ad traffic

The nature of All is that it’s, well, all of what other users (on your instance) are discussing. Just like you could see when certain types of users were active on Reddit from r/All, or when a major event happened, so is the case here.

There are a few things you can do about it though - First, you can switch to your subscribed communities. You won’t see all of the randomness, but it should be limited to your areas of interest.

Second, you can block the major communities you want to avoid, most notably this one.

Third, and this is the hardest one, you can get a bunch of other, unrelated discussions started. That way, people aren’t discussing this. But I swear to God, if I see one more post about the fucking beans…

I suppose you could try another instance, or mass subscribing to new communities, but I suspect this is going to be the big topic for a while across the Lemmyverse.

Clients, no. We have no way (currently) to individually block an instance, nor would it be effective in preventing this problem. Threads users, as a whole, need to be blocked from the Fediverse, so that Threads is not viewed as a way to interact with Mastodon users.

Our particular instances can defederate from Meta, which would stop certain issues - but not the EEE concerns that are usually brought up. It has to be a widespread block.

If by examples, you mean supporting evidence that they will be part of the Fediverse:

https://fortune.com/2023/07/06/mark-zuckerberg-replacing-metaverse-with-twitter-killer-threads-fediverse/

https://www.slashgear.com/1332608/meta-threads-fediverse-new-explained/

https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/05/adam-mosseri-says-metas-threads-app-wont-have-activitypub-support-at-launch/

And especially https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Screenshot-2023-07-05-at-6.17.21-PM.jpg

It’s not ready yet, but it’s clearly on their roadmap.

If any instance becomes large enough to have an undue influence, which Meta would likely have, then they effectively control the entire ecosystem. At that point, it effectively stops being decentralized (See: The 51% Attack, although this wouldn’t happen at a certain number/ratio). When it becomes convenient to them, they can pull the plug, and destroy the rest of the ecosystem that isn’t theirs.

It’s exactly what happened with XMPP and Google Talk.

I think most of that is the exception. From what I can see, Powerstack is a marketing name for their newer and “better” battery, and is completely compatible and replaceable with their standard 20V line. XR is a similar story. Since their “20V Max” is really 18v with a new coat of marketing (No, really), their lineup was already compatible. They just had to put a different connector on it. Atomic is a line of tools (smaller), and are also primarily the same 20v

As for the 12v, 60v, Flex, and whatever else - unless you need a very wide variety in your tool collection, you’ll probably just be using the standard 20v line. Everything is labeled as 20v Max, which works quite well for ensuring compatibility.

As for quality, I’m not an expert on the subject. There are certainly still plenty of fans out there, and it seems to be one of the better brands regardless of any complaints. It’s what I standardized on recently as a DIYer. But it may not be quite as professional-grade as it used to be.

Makita is also a good brand, and I wouldn’t object to that either.

Both exist, but neither has much content yet.

!atbge@lemmy.world

!diwhy@lemmy.world

Boost died for me at 7PM EDT on 6/30, along with the rest of Reddit. Apparently, Reddit was incompetent with disabling everything, so it (along with other 3rd party app) still worked for some people if you were not logged in.

I always get nervous when someone vaguely references their free speech. Aside from it being a poor argument against most censorship, it also doesn’t include any context. There is nothing in this post to suggest the removed comments were anything but spam and threats.

Now I do know a little bit about how Reddit mods operate, and I can fill in some gaps, but I have no reason to believe these were helpful or insightful comments that were just unpopular.

Growth is (generally) fine, as long as it’s decentralized and/or by trustworthy partners. I’m already uneasy about how big lemmy.world is comparatively, even though I’ve never seen anything to suggest any bad intent. Meta would be neither.

If we could keep Meta’s volume to a level where they cannot exert undue influence, I’d even be OK with them being part of it.

Coercion seems to be a big part of the enshittification process these days. Even once you complete stage 3 and piss everyone off, forcing them to stay against their will is part of the game.

This would force a lot of unwilling people to deal with Facebook, and long-term.

Twitter’s weak, not worth buying,

Everything has its price. But just like Musk overpaid for Twitter in the first place, he surely thinks it’s more valuable than anyone else in the market does.

I’m also sure that he values it at a price point that’s higher than it will cost Facebook to create a competitor.

I don’t use callbacks, and I don’t leave messages, because no company has ever actually called me back. It’s a great idea, but IME they never execute it.