Fylkir

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

If doing nothing is enough for collapse, then we've already effectively collapsed.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

especially small ones with small file size games that are easy to reinstall over and over?

Wouldn't even need a small game technically. I'm pretty sure the only way to properly calculate would be running a postinstall script and someone could presumably just keep running that script

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Throwing a tantrum about what exactly? They're one of the oldest-running Lemmy instances. Until now they were running a fork based on a pre-Federation version of the codebase.

You believe they did a bunch of work migrating their database only to then negate that work by destroying the community they wanted to Federate with?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

How about you learn to use the site you're on?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's not radically different from what happens with other abandoned subs, except that usually they are actually abandoned and there has to be more talk about who should take over.

Reddit's policy has always been that subreddit requests only apply if someone actually goes vacant. The only reason XKCD still doesn't have holocaust denial in the sidebar is because the guy who owned the sub disappeared. The XKCD case is especially egregious because I'd argue that associating a public figure's webcomic with a horrendous opinion he doesn't hold is something that would actually open you up to a lawsuit.

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

To an extent I sometimes agree with the complaints about playersexual, but in this instance it feels like they're just grasping for a reason to not be called a prude.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Skyrim had under 100 employees.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's a lot more nuanced than that. The Chapo mods wanted to follow site-wide rules but reddit refused to explain what was in violation of them.

Reddit actually has a weird history of flipflopping with the banhammer.

Back in the day, the XKCD subreddit was run by a guy who linked a Holocaust denial subreddit and the red pill in the sidebar. Reddit didn't do anything about this. In fact The Red Pill still exists.

But then when the subreddit owner closed KotakuInAction, suddenly reddit doesn't mind interfering with the free market of ideas.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Sure, but that's a separate argument.

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

The only context I heard this term in was to refer to the people who got made a career out of replying to Trump.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You could also share links in a Url shortened style and use that redirect to let someone select an instance or log in to another service to know where to send links. This also isn't great.

The ideal would be a site that asks you for your instance once, saves it as a cookie, then automatically redirects you.

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