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  • Batman in an interrogation room pins joker to the wall.

    Batman: “I’ve only got one rule”

    Joker: “Then that’s the rule you’re gonna have to break to get what you want”.

    Now I hate Marvell and all super hero movies but I do find that quote applies to a lot of things.

    If you’re truthful or law abiding then law breakers have an advantage on you. They’ll try and undermine free and fair elections.

    If you’re a pacifist then people will use violence to try and control you, such as terrorism, or simply ignore your laws.

    If you have socialism then people will pour in from other countries or try to exploit the system in whatever they can.

    If the police or strict or lax in either direction it causes upset.

    Whatever you say is a law, or a line you won’t cross, is something that people will exploit.



  • I’ve been on Reddit for 16 years and I’d say yes it’s very similar. Like Reddit back then it was very tech focused and quite liberal.

    I do think people are a bit more vicious online these days than they used to be and a bit more polarised.

    From a content perspective there used to be more blog content than tech news content, but it’s fairly similar. What I like about Lemmy is it’s far less commercial and the conversation is more genuine.

    However I don’t think Lemmy will become Reddit in 15 years, I think it may languish in eternal obscurity and I’m actually okay with that.

    Reddit exploded when Digg crumbled and the same could happen with Reddit crumbling but idk, there seems to be some stickiness to Internet websites these days.












  • Conspiratorial but has a string of possibility.

    User: What are you doing?

    Microsoft and Motherboard manufacturers: Putting DRM chips on the motherboard.

    User: Why?

    Microsoft: No reason.

    User: Most businesses would switch to a cheaper toilet paper to save $5, why are you shipping chips and developing software and technology to use these chips.

    Microsoft: Oh we’re not going to force anyone to do anything, we just want the ability to. Look at this workaround that we expect 0.015 of our billions of Windows users to use.



  • It was amazing but I was young and it was wonderful to discover. I think people have fond memories for it really.

    It’s very similar to Lemmy, if not just the same thing done a different way. I think there were only upvotes (I can Digg it).

    For young people discovering Lemmy, as it is now, and discovering Linux subreddits etc, they probably get the same enjoyment/attachment etc.

    The redesign of Digg downplayed it’s communities and put mainstream media first (as if Kbins magazine tool was restricted to famous newspapers) and thus it immediately felt like the community had been fractured. Reddit was growing with peoples own blogs and it felt way more community oriented. This is where I think and hope Lemmy will also find its own community.