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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

What is this referencing in this particular case?

[–] [email protected] 95 points 2 years ago (4 children)

As far as I understand, lemmy.world is banning/defederating piracy communities. This made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I thought it's some people defending LTT/LMG after their latest stunt (possibly single-handedly killing a startup)
Linked post is also locked for some reason

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Holy fuck, single-handedly killing a startup is way to exaggerated. I really don't wanna defend LMG/Linus here, their mistakes are horrendous and Linus' response was laughably bad. But Billet Labs are fine, they probably got more good advertising out of it than anything else.

They themselves said "What's happened recently is blip, we will not be stopped." on a r/LinusTechTips post

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Anyone remembers the Scrapyard Wars series by LTT? about 5-10 years ago. That was really great content.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

The good advertising only happened after everything went down, before that they were discarded/dismissed by the largest tech review channel on the internet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Nothing about that entire situation is good advertising.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is your link meant to direct me to a foot fetish image? Or is it some federation shenanigans?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

they linked to post 886994 on startrek.website however the client you're using loaded up post 886994 on lemmy.blahaj.zone

when resolved correctly, OP's post ends up being post 1845218 on lemmy.blahaj.zone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Thanks for the explanation. I have heard of this phenomenon but never personally encountered it myself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

posts having different IDs per instance did trip me up as well but i found out this is a surprisingly common practice on nearly all fedi software

[–] can 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yup - I copied the link from the "rainbow point-to-point pentagon", posts should be shared on fedi with that (that's the original instance's post).

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Appreciate the H2G2 reference 😌

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've never seen it shortened that way before. Is that common?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Quite, yes. Douglas Adams himself founded http://www.h2g2.com back in 1999.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Huh, TIL! Thanks! :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

This was what this post was referencing. Thanks for answering this question for me! I haven't watched LTT/LMG in over 5-6 years, so I have no idea what's going on with that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I too would like to know

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

Valiantly defending the Titan of Industry from in between its toes, while the behemoth clutches at its heart and collapses due to a congenital heart defect.

[–] Cl1nk 18 points 2 years ago

Multi billion* Shit is getting out of hand

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

LOL, LIMEWIRE

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That pic can get some mileage (if updated to billions for some of them) with Tesla, Disney, Nintendo, CDPR, and many more.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

You can even hear the heavy breathing