Don’t most doors just close against the frame so there’s no line of sight without the need for the cool design?

As if they care.

They’re just going to keep buying elections.

Yep that’s weird.

I hear what you’re saying, but I think my point is that it doesn’t require “logic” it’s just basic threat aversion.

Perhaps the missing link is that people don’t realise that Musk’s interests are not aligned with their own.

Hmm, I don’t think the past is a good predictor of the future in this case.

Maybe everyone likely to leave reddit for lemmy already has?

With the influxes that have occurred in the past I think Lemmy has retained about a third of the MAUs contained in the spike. It’s not nothing but I think it really underlines my point that Lemmy just isn’t a viable alternative for a lot of reddit users. The network effect might be responsible for some of that, but not all.

Also, as time goes by there are more corporate backed alternatives, like threads.

If I were a republican voter (I’m not), and the richest man in the world was buying votes for my preferred party, that would be a huge red flag because it’s very obvious that my own interests are not well aligned with the richest man in the world.

I respect your opinion, and can see some benefit to reddit’s demise, but I think I’m too cynical and jaded to hold that belief.

It looks like bluesky will be twitter’s replacement, and it’s not clear that bluesky will be better.

If reddit implodes there’s not really any likelihood that refugees will seek out lemmy.

That said, at least lemmy is self hostable and federated. If the larger lemmy network did shit itself there would be smaller instances which are not federated with the majority of other servers so potentially they might be somewhat sheltered from bots and trolls.

I don’t think there’s really a solution to this.

Everyone is so fixated on getting more users but honestly I don’t think that will make it a better experience.

I don’t really understand what you’re getting at.

Smart phones are easy to identify by their model name? As In the current Samsung flagship phone is the S25 Ultra. S for Samsung. 25 for 2025. Ultra being better than Pro or whatever.

IDK about tech products but “obfuscation” is a strategic component of pricing. Telcos do this with their phone bills. This type of call costs this much per minute and that type of call is free for the first 5 minutes per call and calls to these numbers are a flat rate for the first 5 hours per month but you also get 30 free minutes plus another 45 minutes to be used at off-peak times.

They do this so you can’t compare to other providers.

I don’t think it’s really helpful to look at other species.

We are the only species that has sex for pleasure and uses contraceptives.

I don’t think the peak is the original cladding.

The lower levels had smooth limestone I think.

That top part had that silver and gold alloy I think?

Yeah the pyramids at giza used to have an outer layer of white limestone (was it? Or maybe marble…) which was taken and used elsewhere.

Witty!

This article is just commentary about some tweets, with nothing additional.

“This asshole ‘meh meh meh’, and then this other douche bag said ‘yeah like meh’, and then everyone’s favorite lefty said ‘butt’.”

I guess they don’t get their green card ?

Were they driving a cybertruck?

I couldn’t see it mentioned in the article.

It doesn’t seem that intimidating to me?

100% agreed.

Every time I bring this up I get accused for gatekeeping or something.

I’m not averse to new users coming to lemmy, that’s great, no problem.

I am resistant however to the idea that lemmy needs more users and that those users should come from reddit.

Lemmy could do with more content, but a huge influx of users probably wouldn’t be great.

Email is a poor analogy because that’s direct communication.

As an aside, I work as a consultant and clients are getting scammed via email all the time. Email is responsible for a lot of heart ache and heavy losses.

Regardless, you might be able to filter newsletters from bills in your email inbox but how do you filter out Russian disinformation farms from reddit?

I think the idea that the internet might usher in a new information age is dead. Long dead. The internet solved the problem of access to information but now we just produce lots of bad information.

The company that makes locks?