Dragon lady. Draws stuff.
The last straw for LJ for me was when they made any mention of queerness illegal so as to conform to the laws of their new home country. I logged out and never logged in again. I still get badly-translated email about anniversary gifts for my various 13-year-old accounts now and then.
I have a DW account but it lies fallow, mostly because I could never get the auto-crossposter plugin to work on my Wordpress site.
That AMA tomorrow with the CEO is gonna be a heck of a thing, that’s for sure.
On the gripping hand, they were right - the Ringworld would fall into the sun, but after books 3/4 of that series, it would have been a blessing if nobody ever brought a single one of its attitude jets back home.
The big sites got big by being there when a previous big site died. But nothing lasts forever, and eventually a social site becomes desperately uncool because there are people old enough to have grandkids on it. And they totter on, like a zombie, until they fuck out badly, and most people leave. But not everyone, I still get linked to blog entries on Livejournal now and then, sometimes I even end up on Blogger when I’m following a trail and people are still updating some of those.
hahaha holy shit
I wonder if “cross-posting about /r/LemmyMigration to a bunch of other subs” triggered an automatic spam filter in a way that a bunch of different people saying “hey have you heard about Lemmy” does not. There’s a certain level of slack I’m willing to cut for people trying to moderate something as huge as Reddit or Twitter or whatever; it’s what happens in the next few days that’s really going to be worth reacting to.
Good luck with the appeal. <3
I think there’s a lot of user interface hurdles between now and The Year Of The Linux Facetop. And a lot of very tight hardware design. And a need for someone to point a lot of devs in the same direction, and make them give a shit about how well stuff works for a non-technical user. And a source of funding for all of this.
September came for Reddit long, long ago. Personally I stay way the hell off of any popular subreddit because they’re just a total wasteland. And September comes for the small subreddits now and then, too - they’ll grow too big, the active mods get overwhelmed, and it starts to turn into 4chan. And I unsubscribe. If I’m lucky I hear about the mods starting up a new offshoot subreddit that’s trying to be small, relatively quiet, and aggressively unpopular.