Having him deliver the “I’ve been here the whole time” would be incredible haha

I didn’t realize Sam Reich’s dad was so cool

yeah haha, the comments on most posts seem relatively positive to me? ironically, this is by far the most negative comment section I think I’ve ever seen here

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Zeke Hausfather, a research scientist at Berkeley Earth, warned more records could be broken this year, due to an increase in emissions and El Nino.

Okay, I know this isn’t the point of the article, but this guy’s name is cool as hell and would fit perfectly as the leader of a band of survivors once the climate change apocalypse actually hits.

Now, that said, I would prefer that it didn’t. Every other form of existential dread I can rationalize away, but this feels inexorable.

Hopefully these things aren’t just replaced but one can hope

if you listen closely you can hear the beans coming our way

I’m OOTL and I think I’ll just sit this out.

I’m fully in the loop and it still just makes me think of omg sO teh r4nd0m!! memes from 2005

like, maybe we’ll revisit ragecomics next lol

because we’re taking the internet back to 2003 and that includes omg teh random posts being funny again *holds up spork*

yeah, I had some ones set up like months out, it was always fun getting those random reminders. There’s a similar bot on discord, at least

You can subscribe to kbin “magazines” just like communities from other federated lemmy instances too, so you can view them all through lemmy.world or whichever instance you’re on

Here’s a link to the blocky docs with a little more explanation. The above link looks like it goes to the a docker image posted on the user’s profile… I think? ^I need to get more familiar with docker^

I think the best approach might be general subject-specific instances? Like, video.games with a main games community, meme community, then smaller communities for various games - or sports.social, with communities for each sport.

I feel like we’re going to end up with a particular community on a particular instance ending up as the “default” community for that subject, but it’d probably be better (in an ideal world) to have those on separate instances to maintain some degree of decentralization

I voted for no memes, and I’m really glad we got that, but one thing I want to mention is that it’d be good to have a /c/gamingmemes or something to redirect people to, rather than just a closed “no memes here”. There’s definitely an appetite for that content, and it seems gentler if there’s another community they can be directed to.

(I thought about creating it myself but I’ve never really liked gaming meme pages, so I don’t think I’d be good at hosting one 😅)

and now they’re advertising stuff like subscription tiers and server shops, which makes me feel like they’re using a completely different service than I am

well, they hired thousands of devs in the last few years, only to direct their efforts to self-hosting videos, chat features, customizable snoo avatars you can sell NFTs for, etc. (you know, things people wanted)

so I can understand the loss potentially growing in recent years, given what they’ve been spending on

(they said “like 6 months before he bought it”, not “like 6 months ago, before he bought it”)

the biggest thing to me, in terms of server load, is that reddit does not need to host videos/images. It’s a link aggregate.

I’m only a layman in this particular field, but I imagine it’s a lot lighter on resources to direct people to sites streaming video than to host and serve it all yourself.

I’m afraid allowing memes, even on a single day, could be a slippery slope,

yeah, I think trying to make everyone happy with forced coexistence (instead of just having two distinct areas) might actually be likely to only create more friction

oh man, I’m glad I’m not the only one that’s always been annoyed by that on reddit.

So many times, you’d just get a post like “man you know this guys a real one” with a picture of some pixelated lifeguard, 30 comments of people like “yeah thats my boy 🙌🙌🙌”, and then one poor guy at the bottom sitting at -30 just trying to find out what’s going on.

It’s definitely a valid question, because Lemmy is going to be just as vulnerable as reddit to the problem of how much quicker low-effort memes accrue upvotes, which naturally results in them drowning out articles and discussion posts. The latter, despite being more interesting and generally “higher-quality”, will always take more time per-user to engage with - so, in systems like this, they naturally fall behind in both pace and volume of upvote.

So, as long as we’re using an upvote system, those need to be split so the articles and discussion posts don’t get drowned out in a sea of easily-consumed and quickly-upvoted low-content posts. I know I would personally really prefer having a proper feedly-style community with a bunch of articles and discussions than another gaming meme one that could basically be a bot linked to an instagram feed.

I actually voted for one day but now that I’ve thought about it a bit more, I think I’d prefer a /c/games and /c/gamemes or something, just so the people that want the latter have their space all the time. It seems preferable to the friction of trying to share space for both styles of community when we don’t actually have to. I think, if we do vote to keep them, we’re going to need a /c/gamingdiscussion or something for the actual wordy content.