Yet another example of why we need privacy laws with real teeth.

Do you mean Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA)?

Blue and gold macaw. They’re big intelligent parrots that get into mischief.

A complete and utter mental break down which culminated with me bursting into tears in my supervisor’s office. He’s a cool guy though, so that was just very awkward for him.

Overall, not an approach I would recommend, but it did put things into perspective for me. I did seek professional help after that, but I had already broken through a lot of the tough stuff. Also, it took 2-1/2 months to see a psychiatrist.

As for anxiety overall, it never really goes away. You can learn to recognize it and develop habits to break that feedback loop. Sometimes I have to say to myself, “It’s time to stop this,” then mean it and actually deal with what’s put me in a higher state of anxiety.

Yeah, the first 2/3rds of the article covering Naomi Wu was worth a read, but that last 1/3rd… I get her argument, but she should have left that out to focus just on Naomi.

This is the first I’m hearing about drama with F-Droid. All I could find was a post on Hacker News which links to this github gist.

I honestly see this being a continued expectation to be a bigger issue. Two communities with the same name on different servers could be very different spaces. Giving users the ability to group them together homogenizes them in a way that is likely bad for the ecosystem overall.

I see the issue, but I still see the tradeoff as being worth it. Right now, if I want to browse technology commies I have to click into each one I’m subbed to. This means I’m going to go the to biggest one first, then second biggest, and so forth. This pretty much favors the big commies over the small ones because this is just annoying to the end user. Grouping gives those smaller ones a better chance of appearing in someone’s feed thus spreading out activity over a larger part of the lemmy fediverse.

There’s going to be ups and downs. I wouldn’t be too concerned right now.

I see the bigger problems being community discoverability, not being able to group communities together, and moderation tools.

I’m kinda disappointed that there’s nothing in !drama@lemmy.world about it.

And this one goes into the lewd folder.

Yeah, I don’t think we can say there is a first day. More like there are waves. We could tentatively say the first one was around the black out. Although, there may have been some smaller waves before that. The next big one is the API-ocalypse. The next big one after that will be when the reddit executives fire their foot shotgun again.

Yes, sort of. Elmo saddled the company with $12.5 billion in debt while alienating the advertisers which was where the majority of Twitter’s revenue came from. Revenue has to come from somewhere. BuuuUUUUUuut, Elmo is in over his head, doesn’t really understand Twitter’s business model, and is making decisions by the seat of his pants. The answer to every question may as well be yes, no, maybe.

Mile marker 420 had that problem.

Reddit is only going to get worst over the next year. I came across this article a couple days ago while searching for early news coverage of the (then planned) blackout:

Reddit launches new ad products to boost conversions (archive.ph mirror)

Reddit has launched Contextual Keyword Targeting and Product Ads, to help advertisers reach new and valuable audiences.

The article reads like an ad, but what I got out of it was Reddit is going to have more tracking and intrusive advertising. Not a good experience.

You know he’s a narcissist. A narcissist needs to be the center of attention. Putting him in solitary would be a fate worst than death. It would be his own personal hell. 😂

I agree. I think it’s going to be a bit of column A and a bit of column B. There will be the large general instances. Along with more regional and topical instances like feddit.de and programming.dev. Then a whole bunch of small instances that represent the long tail.