Playing sounds? sure.

Rearranging keys - hell no.

Fair point.

There’s nothing wrong with Lemmy growing in an organic sustainable way, but I dislike the attitude that lemmy ought to be a reddit replacement or that lemmy should grow from the ashes of reddit.

Lemmy should be it’s own thing with it’s own culture and history and communities.

I get a bit peeved when lemmy users (not necessarily you) get a bit obsessive about transferring communities to lemmy from reddit. Just focus on creating good content for Lemmy and forget about the rest.

I’d like to see a sudden growth in Lemmy and fall of Reddit, but I don’t think it’s anywhere near

I don’t. Let the idiots stay on reddit. Leave lemmy how it is. Is it so terrible that one might have to visit reddit to find some niche communities?

Wasn’t there like a bot defense team that published a ban list or something but they just gave up during the exodus?

Yeah 100%.

Imagine around the advent of readily available photo prints. People might have been thinking “this is terrible, someone I don’t know could have a photo of me and look at it while thinking licentious thoughts!”

Australia here. SMS is the lowest common denominator. I use it to talk to clients all the time.

I’ve heard of the blue bubble thing but only from yanks I think.

I mostly agree with @shadejinx. I would add that when editing the same note on two separate devices syncthing will at least fail kind of gracefully in that you’ll whatever.md will still be there but you’ll see an additional whatever-conflict-hash.md along side it so you can easily fix it up. Synctrayzor for windows will give you a nice notification and UI with which to resolve.

Nextcloud is great but it’s a real behemoth. Loads of stuff you don’t need.

IDK what you mean exactly but I sync between computers and devices just fine.

This is the way. I finally got around to setting this up a few months back.

I guess you’re technically correct but I think the assertion is based on a misconception, as though xitter could be gutted and sold for it’s constituent parts.

Like imagine someone bought a house for $1m, and then lived there for a year and their dog shat on the living room carpet every day. You wouldn’t say “oh well it still has some value because you could sell the copper wiring for something.”

Yes you could sell the copper wiring, but it’s worth far more where it is - you just need to change the carpet and then the property would return to something approaching it’s former glory.

There may be other revenue streams but not enough to cover costs.

That doesn’t preclude what I said though.

No. Whoever wrote this doesn’t understand bankruptcy.

If things got really bad creditors would take control and sell the business to shareholders who would install a clean CEO who would entice advertisers back.

No one would utter the b-word.

It’s market value is nil if there are no advertisers.

they workshopped it and found that the word had the right balance of motivation & positive vibes while conveying little meaning.

They always just get tossed aside at the first slip up.

… with a bonus of a few billion.

The article says that the app description said something about “killing children”.

It’s not really surprising google removed it. I mean they could’ve just edited the description or whatever but… policy I guess.

Sounds like it will be back any minute.

I love this so hard ❤️

Getting sick of saying that it’s not the link, it’s the preview.

An AI generated article would still need source material.

Anyway, what would be the appeal of a platform that couldn’t link anything but just showed AI content?

The way I see it, journalism is more or less dead. A shade of the former institution. There doesn’t seem many other ways to fund journalistic endeavour.

As I replied to the other commenter:

If it were just a link then there wouldn’t be any problem. Users would follow the link to the publisher’s web site. I think the problem is that facebook et al scrape the content and show cards and summaries and then user’s don’t visit the publisher’s web site. They’re getting paid for their content, for being linked.