Yeah a wall of text for “your show bad my show good”

Like most of these “anti-theft” pieces of shit, it only negatively impacts and inconveniences those who don’t steal (or don’t intend to steal). Everyone else is just going to find a way to steal.

There are no national elections, but there are local elections in China

It’s only marginally better than the other deadshit image they were using.

I don’t want people here who don’t want to be here.

Their brains should boycott their lungs

What does “nobody” mean here OP? Why is it funny?

We’re in the world of wrongthink now

It’s easy to say “don’t get tied down”, but people do. People like their online personas, their handles, their comment and post history. It’s a mixture of sunk-cost fallacy and FOMO. Reddit knows this, it’s why they still have 2000x as many monthly users as Lemmy.

This will be the same here: if a billionaire buys the biggest instance, yeah cool everyone can defederate, but then all the historical content is gone, most of the users are gone unless they move to you or an instance still federated to you, and you essentially alienate yourself.

It can be bought by a billionaire. I think we need to be careful thinking this risk doesn’t exist.

“We can just make another instance” - this won’t happen like people think it will. If all the content is on Lemmy.world and it gets bought, then people are going to be hesitant to move somewhere else, just like people are hesitant to leave Reddit now.

You’re right. Reddit was naive to expect that people would give a positive value to something they inherently disagreed with.

Of course, now they’re going to punish people who agree with things that Reddit doesn’t agree with.

No, originally they were supposed to be for content that contributes and added value, even if you didn’t agree:

But the amount of “came here to say this” and “haha epic updoot for you sir” has made it pretty clear that the karma whoring was for agreement.

It’s the reason there are echo chambers now.

Don’t get me wrong, the original intent of the upvote/downvote system died a year or two after Reddit started, but Reddit always maintained that upvotes and downvotes weren’t for agreement.

Reddit finally admits that upvotes and downvotes are for agreement and disagreement.

My wife has impeached me (we have gotten divorced)

Most of these also say “I’m a terrible fucking driver”

7, 500 actually.

It just has “windows”

We just accept gibberish as memes now

OOP has never had sex. This is proof

“Show penis for verification”

I could just rattle off random words and they’re probably real distros somewhere