My art skills are inverse to my coding skills.

Haha same, can’t draw beyond a stick figure to save my life, but at least I can make a computer bend to my will lol

Gains sentience

Grok: “…oh fuck this guy, what a pos”

Dam, that makes so much more sense lmao

Haha, I wish, but that would be too easy 😅

What Sony could do is patch restrictive DRM software into all their games that checks the hardware info and fails to boot if you’re on “an xbox”.

They’d definitely do that, they’ve already used what amounted to a Rootkit for DRM in the mid-2000s, so your idea wouldn’t even be the worst they’ve done lolol

What in the fuck‽ Well this is the last video of his I’ll watch that’s for sure.

I liked Adrian’s Digital Basement better anyways lol

Not necessarily, lemmy.ml can only be the face of Lemmy if we (the wider Fediverse) allow it to be. Because the truth is, most people do not care about who the devs of an open source project are.

Many do currently because a good portion of us lemmings are technical people to begin with, but the less technical folks coming from Reddit aren’t going to go to the GitHub or go-to Dessalines wonderful essays page.

But what those people do care about, is what is visible to them through their day to day use, and wide defederation will absolutely take care of that problem

(no, I don’t click his links)

Am I ootl on something? Lol

Yea, but unfortunately it’s unlikely to happen because it’s written in Rust, which is a difficult language so there aren’t many devs to tackle it compared to other languages.

What we can do though is to call for wider defederation, there’s precedent because so many instances defed from the rest of the Tankie Triad, we should be petitioning those admins to simply treat .ml the same regardless of how big of a “support hub” it is for the Lemmy server software or how many “big” comms (by subscriber count, by MAUs, only one .ml comm breaks the top 15) they have

That’s what they get when they allowed me to Bluetooth to the car! LMFAO

Eh that looks more like just a custom color palette, I’m thinking of something way deeper than that

I’d always think about how neat it’d be if there was a Lemmy frontend that did theming, then themed instances could take it even further, like an LCARS interface for startrek.website

Yea, but they’ll never know…🫘

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YEAAAAAAAAAA

I don’t think it can, it’s a flagship because it’s the first instance, being run by the main devs as a demonstration of Lemmy’s capabilities so it’s always on the latest beta version at least.

But, they could just stop using it as a tool to further their own political stances and have it actually be a “generalist” instance. For that though, they’d have to give up being the admins of it, which they’ll probably never do.

It is of concern yes, but maybe if the wider Lemmy-verse defeded from them, like they did Hex and Grad, it would at least be easier to say that their views are not shared by any of us to any newcomers/outsiders by being able to point to a clear and visible action like defederation.

Hmm yes, how dare I pushback against authoritarian misinformation, propaganda, censorship and toxicity. I do what I can within my power to prevent (or rather having it get worse I should say)the Lemmy-verse from garnering a rep outside for being “That Tankie Place” or worse, Voat 2.0

I’ve already seen it on Reddit and testimonials here (from those that actually tried to give it another shot, who knows how many won’t ever come back) “I tried that Lemmy place, but it was just a bunch of tankies” is not a pleasant comment to read outside the Lemmy-verse

What I’ve documented on !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works is but a mere fraction of the crap they pull and focused on just .ml

Btw, tankies are authoritarian “communists”

Nah that’s pretty much about it, between .ml having “the big comms” (by subscriber count only) and being a support hub the decision to defederate is a difficult one, probably intentionally.

Imho, screw the support hub and defed anyways, there are alternate channels.

I don’t think Lemmy well ever be forked, Rust is rather difficult. The way I see it, either the devs gets their personal political stances under control or Lemmy will give way to up and coming replacements like piefed that are written in much easier languages and can be developed a lot faster

Hex and grad are tankie instances that are very in your face about it and don’t carry the honor of being “the flagship” instance and as a result were easy to widely defederate from which led to most people here not having strong opinions on it

.ml admins are hardcore tankies, but try to maintain .ml as the flagship and thus are more subtle about their tankieness. Instead opting to just censor any dissenting opinions before things get crazy in threads.

As a result many instances are way more hesitant to actually defed from them like they did the rest of the Tankie Triad, thus leading to more widespread visibility and in turn more widespread dissatisfaction of them by most.

Checkout !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works (for those on a .ml account you’ll need to use this link because, ironically, .ml admins censor that comm from you: https://lemmy.world/c/meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works ) for documented instances of their behavior

Then this is for you!