All this time and energy wasted on chatbots, cancer research, and what have you. What we need is a universal robotic liver, so that we can all stay drunk all the time with no consequences.

Some go as far as to define themselves as ‘pornosexuals,’ people with a sexual preference for porn over real-life sex.”

Y’all motherfuckers need Jesus.

The secret ingredient is crime legislative, judicial, and regulatory capture.

Zuckerberg said. “Mental health is a complex issue and the existing body of scientific work has not shown a causal link between using social media and young people having worse mental health outcomes.”

Non-apology followed by an actual denial. Very misleading headline.

I was looking for a Reddit alternative for years. I would have been cool with anything non-corporate, but figured it would take ages to build.

It’s incredible what Lemmy has turned into so quickly. A Reddit alternative went from being impossible to actually existing within a matter of weeks.

The derivatives market is a gigantic casino where the gains are egregiously high and the catastrophic losses are subsidized by the taxpayers. The taxpayer dollars are then used to buy out smaller competitors for pennies on the dollar during the massive economic downturn caused by said catastrophic losses.

The truth is the game was rigged from the start.

I recognize that guy. He was a moderator of the r/jailbait subreddit for the many, many years it was hosted on Reddit.com.

If content creators provide 90% or even 60% of value to YouTube, why is Google a trillion dollar company while major content creators are fighting for scraps that fall from their table? Why are content creators who aren’t in the top tier compensated so little for what they bring to the table?

YouTube is nothing without content. Unionize. Stand together and get paid what you’re worth.

These tech companies have underestimated their utility. They are mostly providing mindless time wasters. If you try to charge money or create inconvenience, people will look for something else to do.

Their attention is your lifeblood, and you’re actively giving them reasons to look elsewhere. The VC grow-at-all-costs business model is fundamentally flawed. It doesn’t scale when profitability becomes a priority.

Always love to hear the deep lore. Lemmy’s early development makes a lot more sense now. Good on them(you) to leave everything open and learn from Reddit’s mistakes.

Still, free and open has a limit. No Facebook and no Nazis. That’s just common sense everyone used to have.

Meta rolling into the fediverse like the martians in Mars Attacks.

“Don’t run! We’re you’re your friends!”