Five people here think Nazi business is fine. Yikes.

e: wait, 6.

e2: hey guys! Lemmy doesn’t have vote fuzzing yet! (just noticing. there’s no conspiracy here … or is there?)

These lunatics have a disturbing amount of control in the US government.

Laughing at them might be fun, and I was doing it until recently, but they’re not joking. The worse our climate disasters become – and they will very soon – the more scared people will become, and the more these groups will take advantage of that fear. We’ll see more climate refugees, more desperation, and more fear. These groups prey on fear, and they’ll amplify it on purpose.

True fascism thrives on fear, which is why these people amplify it like they do. When climate disasters accelerate, these groups will harness the social upheaval to take control. I don’t know what we can do to stop it, but we should all be thinking about and sharing ways to head it off, because they’ve got plans in place already.

I know I sound paranoid, but I’ve been watching them and these aren’t my ideas, but theirs. They talk about this a lot, and if we aren’t prepared, their plans could actually work. I don’t want to live in the fascist future they’re planning. If we don’t combat it, we’ll be living in the Handmaid’s Tale before most of us realise.

If you’re building a system to allow change-log levels of editing, you have to allow for a significant portion of your user base using it, whether or not they do.

That will add fail points and hosting that’s wholly unnecessary to code and maintain, regardless of what percentage you think will use those features.

Have you ever been in charge of distributed large-scale systems like that with millions of users? I have. That would be bonkers.

Sure, and I can see keeping the last edit (which it obviously does), but every edit? That seems ridiculous if only for the hosting costs.

an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of ActivityPub running on a jailbroken smart light bulb.

!subscribe

I don’t know how their backend works, but as a former db admin, it seems wasteful to maintain that many layers of change for every user. I would certainly do that in a mission-critical system, but for millions of pseudo-anonymous users, many of whom are shitposters, that would be an insane waste of server space.

That may be true, but I would be a bit surprised if there were a change-log like that.

e: keep in mind, systems like this don’t just work like that – you’d have to do extra work to build it that way on purpose. And you’d be doing that extra work, maintenance, and hosting for a user base who aren’t paying you, in a system you’re giving away for free, in Lemmy’s case.

I don’t know if this works on Lemmy, but Reddit used to be like this and a solution was to edit your comment to different text first (something like ‘I like turtles’), wait about a week to allow the new text to be archived, and then delete it.

‘I like turtles’ wasn’t special, but makes it easy to scroll through your comments later when deleting things.

In Lemmy, your username will still show up with deleted comments, but in theory the edited text will replace the original comment you want to delete in archived views. This method doesn’t work with post images, though.

Someone correct me if I’m wrong here, please.

e: I’ve edited this comment thrice in 2 hours. Can anyone tell, and can you differentiate my 3 edits?

I did that, too. I published my first novel in 2019 after leaving my career as a UX designer/softwaredev/db admin/etc.

Hit me when you’re ready, no matter how many years that is – I’d love to read your stuff.

Here’s mine:

Blue Are the Hills, Lilly Piper.

None of my other writing is public at the moment.

Aw hell no

Yeah, hi!

Can I have a link to your work?

Didn’t he make that decision after fanboying with Elon Musk?

The reason these people are so rich is they’re sociopaths willing to grind their users to dust and sift their cremains through a sieve for their elemental nutrients. As a user experience designer, it’s abhorrent to watch, especially since I cared so much and had to give up my career. People like Musk and Hoffman making so much by exploiting people makes me incredibly angry.

The wrong people have money.

Aye, and that’s why I left. As an author, fuck you trying to monetise my writing when I can’t even do that myself.

A lot of the thousands of Reddit comments per post were variations of ‘this!’ or inane joke responses, and I don’t miss that at all. It’s not the quantity, but the quality, and I’ve found discussions here to be more like Reddit’s early days when comment threads were more worthwhile.

But if you’re looking for the Reddit experience, I’ll help:

Came here to say this.

Not sure why you’re getting downvoted.

Username checks out

This deserves more upvotes.

I’d give you gold if I could.

Shots fired.

Nailed it.

You. I like you.

Tree fiddy.

You had one job.

That’s enough internet for today.

Happy cake day! 🎂

I have the weirdest boner right now.

Directions unclear.

Banana for scale.

5/7 with rice.

Mom’s spaghetti.

I laughed harder than I should have.

Sauce?

Someone give this man gold.

Circlejerk is leaking.

This was not my proudest fap.

What did I just read?

Risky click.

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¯_(ツ)_/¯

You dropped this: \

Woosh!

This is why we can’t have nice things.

Shades of Microsoft Tay.

Yeah, I skimmed it, and read UK as US.

Sorry, I have dual citizenship and sometimes conflate the two. Deleted my comment as erroneous.

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At that point, it was a primarily visual design with some technical specs (obviously aspirational, there was no prototype yet).

It was definitely previewed at least ten years ago. In my old job as UX designer, we were laughing at it around the office, and I haven’t worked there for 12 years. It may have been a limited preview in design circles, not a public announcement, but the design hasn’t changed.

And why, after we ridiculed this thing 10 years ago for being a low-poly abomination and then it disappeared from view for two decades, did they suddenly decide to release the thing with apparently zero changes in 2023?

This is a terrible, ridiculed, 10 year old atrocity. How is it being taken seriously? I feel like I’m on crazy pills.

e: number typos