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  • Everything is easier said than done

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  • Why IBM got a reputation of destroying everything they touch?

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  • IBM buys companies because it wants something the company has and it's happy to throw away (sorry, divest) the bits it's not interested in. That's it. The people in the bought company, or their customers, may feel that the things that they valued and that made them precious have been destroyed, but IBM didn't value them enough to preserve them.

  • Why IBM got a reputation of destroying everything they touch?

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  • Why IBM got a reputation of destroying everything they touch?

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  • Why IBM got a reputation of destroying everything they touch?

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  • Why IBM got a reputation of destroying everything they touch?

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  • Lemmy resembles the old reddit experience so well that they even emulate the old reddit server performance

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  • That’s where join-lemmy really missed out. They should have introduced a set of rules like join-mastodon where instances must have at least two admins, a clear code of conduct, and clear rules as to how they manage closedown. That way users would be reasonably safe in picking an instance at random. But they didn’t so everyone should go to safe choices like lemmy.world.

  • Lemmy resembles the old reddit experience so well that they even emulate the old reddit server performance

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  • Lemmy resembles the old reddit experience so well that they even emulate the old reddit server performance

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  • That’s where join-lemmy really missed out. they should have introduced a set of rules like join-mastodon where instances must have at least two admins, a clear code of conduct, and clear rules as to how they manage closedown. That way users would be reasonably safe in picking an instance at random. But they didn’t so everyone should go to safe choices like lemmy.world.

  • Lemmy resembles the old reddit experience so well that they even emulate the old reddit server performance

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  • Lemmy resembles the old reddit experience so well that they even emulate the old reddit server performance

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  • Severance

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  • I watched Severance by mistake, thinking I was watching Succession, which meant I was totally disoriented for the first few episodes as I waited for Brian Cox to turn up. It was glorious. Can totally recommend.

  • Visiting the US soon - do I really have to tip?

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  • Yes, if you don’t tip they will call you a Canadian or worse.

  • ELI5: Would it be possible for a "fediverse" app to exist?

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  • Yes. It’s called a “web browser”.

    Seriously though, “fediverse” just means internet plus shared hosting of content. Why would you want a single app to amalgate photos and chat and videos and weather and restaurant reviews and auctions and whatever else people choose to federate?

  • What Android app should I use to browse Lemmy?

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  • Yep, this is the secret :-) We are still working on how we make the whole multi-account thing more understandable and usable.

  • Owners destroyed the soul of their own house

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  • The house was horrible enough to start with; a characterless inter-war bungalow with fake timbering and fake leaded glass. The conversion is just differently horrible.

    For me it's the destruction of the garden that warrants it being here. I know it's the UK so the sun isn't always available (edit: just seen the Zoopla link, it's Bolton, so change "always" to "ever") , but losing shade and shelter like that is a tragedy in any climate.

  • What other less-toxic system could work instead of karma?

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  • Oh I doubt anyone would implement that as a system, but it is interesting to speculate what it might change. Imagine all the downvote curmudgeons having to regularly post pictures of kittens to /c/aww in order to recharge their karma.

    I rarely downvoted on Reddit because I’m pretty sure everyone (no matter how blasé they appear to be) gets more upset by a comment ending up at -1 than they would get pleased by it ending at +5. When I found that some instances here don’t even have the downvote button, I decided that I wasn’t going to use it here at all. If someone says something damaging to the conversation I’ll report it to the mods, if they say something factually incorrect I might correct them, but otherwise I will just move on.

  • What other less-toxic system could work instead of karma?

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  • Every system that can be thought of (and has been suggested here) might sound great but when implemented at scale will no doubt prove to be open to abuse and require an army of mods to oversee. Otherwise every multi-million dollar social media company would have implemented it already.

    Upvotes and downvotes and cumulative scores kind of do the job well enough that that’s what we keep ending up with.

    That being said though, I would be interested in seeing a system where each downvote you make also counts against your own karma to discourage profligate use of the downvote to mean “I have a different opinion but can’t express it here”.

  • [Megathread] List of lemmy apps

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  • You can add Liftoff! under macOS too. We’ve not done any work specifically to make it a first class Mac app, but it installs and runs perfectly using TestFlight for Mac.

    Edit: sorry just realised that this is the original post reformatted. Looks really good, great work!