I cross posted this to Hacker News (which is very pro-CEO and big corpo) and it's now rank 1 on the front page, lmao. People really support this guy
(And it's funny because in the comments, people are seething "Nooooo he's not popular, look at these polls that show he has 13% approval!!")
(Not sharing link to avoid brigade)
4chan was hating on Reddit before it was cool
Blows my mind that to this day, companies don't realize it's a service issue. Like it's straight up regressed. Adobe and Microsoft used to encourage piracy to help their bottom line. Now you have stupid PMs who realize they can get a good performance review by talking about how much money they'll make/save from doing stuff like this
Both can be true?
Imagine working on taking Z library down as your day job and still sleeping at night. Scum of the earth.
Didn't expect to see memes making fun of mental illnesses on Lemmy
Imagine shilling a closed source, sold out alternative to UBlock Origin
I've been on Reddit alternatives for the last 5 years. Lemmy is long past the phase the others all failed at, and next time Reddit screws up it'll grow even more.
The largest existential threat for Lemmy at the moment is perpetual funding. The two full-time devs are almost in the poverty line.
If you can donate even a few dollars/month, it's a huge help: https://join-lemmy.org/support
The first time I looked into this, I thought it was fake, but turns out I was checking the wrong year.
I appreciate them donating at all, but that's about the price of one Macbook per year - my girlfriend's most recent Macbook was $5,500
Edit: It looks like these donations may come from Apple matching donations (pdf warning)
A proprietary, for-profit version of Lemmy
Well yea, countries keep buying nuclear from France because it's clean, cheap, and they don't want to suffer the political backlash from the science lacking environmentalists which come forward when they talk about building nuclear on their own land
To defend Linus here, he's always doing something