What an everlasting tool history will remember you as, elon.

Biggest tool in the history of tools.

Only clearer by the day that this was all an exercise to intentionally kill Twitter to the benefit of billionaires, fascists and other extremists.

When I initially heard about Elon paying what he did for Twitter my first thought was he’s buying it to kill it, then I thought nobody in their right mind would spend that kind of money to carry out a personal vendetta. Now I think that’s absolutely what’s going on.

I believe he’s killing Twitter purely for personal reasons (he hates it because people gave him shit there). I don’t think there’s some kind of grand social agenda. It would require an assumption he cares about someone other than himself. Unlikely as the guy’s ego extends past Planet 9.

Actually after thinking about it, the stuff he’s doing to the company is just batshit insane. It has to be intentional. He’s on a campaign to kill the company for the tax write-off and because he has some kind of personal beef with it. If he were to just fire everyone and shut down the servers he wouldn’t be able to take the write-off. The company has to die a slow death for it to look legit.

In imperial units I get this for a single stack of 44B in $100 bills;

.0043 inches * 44B / (12 inches in a foot * 5280 feet in a mile) = 2986 miles

That would be approximately the distance from Los Angeles to New York. That’s a long stack of bills.

For sure, either he’s destroying it on purpose of he’s that stupid, either one is just way out there.

I use fastmail, great service.

What motivated me to do that is finding these megacorp providers do not keep your email private.

All I can say is Netflix at 12.99 was a tough sell. That was the rate hike that made me drop them. 15.49 forget it.

When Netflix was the ticket and my sub was 8.99 some years ago, I didn’t pirate anything because I didn’t need to. I’d have to pay a hundred a month due to the fracturing and inflation of streaming services now, and I still wouldn’t get everything. I didn’t wanna pirate, but the industry backed me into a corner.

It’s supposed to be seamless, but there can be issues in federation between Lemmy and kbin. I log into Lemmy and have a number of subscriptions to kbin magazines. I’ve found it to be less than perfectly reliable. Consider they’re two different platforms with two different teams. Development is running at a quick pace making it more likely for something to break. If that happens they’re not always directly aware of issues between them.

Also instances don’t synchronize all content between all instances. They do it on demand so if you’re the first one on that particular instance to subscribe to a particular remote community then the instance will start federating content at that point.

Haha, you nailed it.

Yes it does make things complicated. I think there may be a number of potential users intimidated by the complexity of the Fediverse. On one hand it kind of filters out the lazy ones which mitigates lazy posting, but on the other it makes growth more difficult.

However it’s really only Beehaw causing the defederation drama (neglecting Meta of course). Most if not all the other instances block only for abuse or extreme content (like lemmygrad). Beehaw blocks other instances just because they don’t like the looks of them, literally. They don’t approve of the admin policy at lemmy.world so they blocked the biggest most popular Lemmy instance, boo!!!

Well as Lemmy users we do have some control. If we unilaterally disapprove of what Beehaw is doing we can reject them into obscurity. Based on the lack of growth in user numbers over there I’d say that’s happening already. At one time they were top five in total users, now they’re not even on the first page.

Generally no, but it can make a difference depending on which communities you want to participate in. For example beehaw.org blocks lemmy.world so if you log into lemmy.world and want to participate with a beehaw.org community, you’ll have issue. Though it’s usually not a problem, beehaw is an outstanding offender.

You can check for blocked instances by selecting the Instances link bottom of any page. For example you would go to beehaw.org and check their instances page to see if your login instance is blocked. Then you would check the instances page on your login instance to see if beehaw.org blocked.

There’s some network and performance considerations in selecting an instance. You want one regionally close for best network speeds. Then you want one with good server response. For example lemmy.world and lemmy.ml are heavily loaded so you might get better server performance with a less populated instance (see https://the-federation.info/platform/73). Instance admin settings and quality can also be a consideration.

The full name of a community includes its instance so in fact they are two different communities, not two with the same name.

Reddit has almost twenty years of development under its belt. How much development has it done in that large amount of time. I would bet Lemmy developers will run circles around Reddit in terms of how fast they advance the platform.

I would say the traditional internet was before the time of corporate ruled media, so in that case I’d say corporate internet is killing itself and and media is going back to traditional, at least with respect to the Fediverse.

Welcome, tons of good communities so start subscribing.

As far as my PCs, I use a subscription service for email (fastmail.com). I’m still using the Chrome browser, but at some point I may have to go to Firefox for the sake of my uBlock Origin extension which I rely on heavily. Functionality of that extension on Chrome may be reduced at some point by the forced migration to Google’s new extension platform (Manifest V3).

I have to have a Google account for my Android phone. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to get away from that. I mean you have two choices with phones, Android or iOS. I’m not going anywhere near Apple so Android is it. I’ve audited all my privacy settings in my Google account to minimize personal data, whether they actually honor those settings or not, who knows.

It’s a setting where lemmy.ml has it disabled. You could ask the admin to create it for you or sign up on an instance that has user community creation enabled.

Also, given that Rush would brag about how cheap the original hull was

I’ve seen some short interview clips with him and it seemed like he was proud of how cheaply and recklessly he was doing shit. I’d only have to talk to the guy for five minutes and make up my mind I’m not getting near anything he’s doing. Those ill-fated tourists had conversations with him a lot longer than that.

That’s putting it harshly.

Would be interesting so see a statistic on deep water sub excursions versus fatalities. Probably somewhere between astronauts and WWII bomber crews.

There is little regulation for deep sea subs since they operate in international waters out of jurisdiction. You can pretty much do whatever the hell you want out there. If someone manufactures within jurisdiction, regulations may apply. Though they would be easy to circumvent.

Definitely good safety and engineering practice is written in blood, but regulations are not always enforceable.

I think the design was flawed from the start, proper stress testing would have revealed it. From what I understand they basically sent it down a few times and said all good, we’re done.

The sub did have titanium front and rear bulkheads. If their goal was to make it cheap and light, they might have done better hatching together a train of CF spheres. A cylinder is not strong enough.

Though to be fair, even the best design with the most rigorous testing can fail catastrophically. If that weren’t the case space flight would carry no risk. And space is easier to deal with than the pressure at 4km ocean depth. Still that doesn’t change my opinion of Rush, he was a hack.

User community creation is an admin setting for each particular instance. It’s disabled on lemmy.ml and that’s why you’re not seeing the option. You need to sign in to an instance that has user created communities enabled. My login instance does allow user created communities.