primalanimist

I want to help control the activities of the CIA. Hmm, I know, let’s build a wall, that will certainly stop the CIA. If this was just about the CIA, we wouldn’t be talking about building a wall because of just how stupid that sounds. The CIA can be stopped with a wall? They have the power to smuggle drugs into Mexico, to be sold in the US. You think they are going to let a wall stop them? LOL No, this has never been about stopping the CIA and more about political ideologies and wasting more taxpayer money on NOT the taxpayers.

The nice thing about Lemmy is, it doesn’t care if you “go back to reddit”. Nobody is monetizing you here so nobody is incentivized to try and get you to stay. Not having fun using Lemmy? Go on then. Reddit is probably where you are happiest. This is a newish system that has exploded. If you can’t be inconvenienced by glitches and growing pains in a FREE service, by all means, go be a product for Reddit to sell.

I doubt anyone could pay the man enough to blow 40 billion to tank a website. The moment you break something, the users will find a replacement and go there. This purchase was 100% ego. It changed no minds about Elon. His fanboys will still call this genius, and those who already knew he was a manchild are not suddenly thinking this was a mature, well-thought-out plan.

Over 50% of its advertisers left. That means most of the brands are not interested in the kind of people left in the toxic wasteland called X.

It’s not a tech-classist thing, it’s a human thing. At our core, we are tribal. We take sides. Android vs. iPhone. Windows vs. Mac. Linux vs. everyone. Sports team A vs. Sports team B. Republican vs. Democrat. Musk vs. Zuck. Cats vs. Dogs. Everything. We take sides on everything.

I like the idea of a more nuanced upvote. It’s much more useful. Also I agree with you about a reputation system. No matter what you have in place, users will find a way to exploit it. I think a breakdown of the communities that contribute to a reputation score would actually be useful rather than a generic single score. I love both your ideas. I give it the HELPFUL💁 upvote.