Lindsay graham comes to mind.

When I remember back to the early 80s, me a single digit aged human with my first Commodore 64 and a cassette tape drive, to being a high school aged kid and helping my buddies install their extended memory set chip by chip to get them to 1mb of ram, to way in the future where I type this comment on a mobile phone touch screen capable of unfathomable high resolution graphics and speed is still a surreal feeling.

I grew up and grew old with computers and it’s wild to imagine a life without and a world without them nearly 50 years later.

So they took 11m in excess share options and give back 3.xm now is that due to the difference in price or just an “ok make this enough” settlement?

I think baked beans are more of a BBQ item and July 4th is also a big BBQ day. Baked beans and bbq go way back :)

Yet another complete piece of shit I don’t like this regression to outspoken racism being okay.

perhaps they also can see it and feel it directly but have decided its largely unavoidable, something they are largely unable to change, and just give up? sometimes i think it’s as much about lack of control and weariness as much as it is about apathy.

are they wrong though? let’s say in this hypothetical situation, i have never ever had a social media account. Checkmate privacy invaders!

except wait, i have family, like my mother, who have my name and phone number saved in their phone, probably my birthday and address too if they fill out the contact card completely, which they’ve given permission to facebook to access to “find other friends”, and boom, now i have an entry in a data tracking database without ever opting in myself (i know this is a core privacy argument, not arguing that).

so how is the average person wrong in the “they already have it anyway” camp?

I’m new too but that was also my thought - that it could lead to a lot of bad acting, but what do i know

If you want to see only high effort content only join appropriate communities, it’s as easy as that. To justify blthr block because it will taint the space is just a bad arguments in my eyes.

couldn’t agree more. there’s certainly plenty of ‘content’ on the fediverse that i have absolutely zero interest in and would rather not see - but i can control that pretty easily even as a new user so I don’t see the value in gatekeeping. maybe I dont care about linux but maybe both the linux user and I both like catswithjobs - that’s the beauty of diversity, of finding common bonds amidst the differences and celebrating together.

i left reddit not because i have to use their shitty app - i left because it was completely crystal clear that the management attitude toward users is extremely toxic and hateful. Basically repeatedly gave the community the finger, and continues to do so. It’s their playground, but i dont have to go where i feel unwanted.

never found this community on reddit, but im glad you’re here, seems like a fun time. /subscribe

Ah yeah that’s fair I’d be pissed too. Hopefully lemmy doesn’t inherit all that community lash back like the old place. Plenty of places over there will make you regret ever commenting.

I never really cared about all the later features he added to Apollo. I was an early adopter and had pro which was a one time purchase. Never saw the need when he rolled out the ultra stuff but it also didn’t bother me he found ways to monetize it without selling me as a product to marketing companies or whatever heh.

Bummer you had a lousy experience. Hopefully you and I both can feel more comfortable here :)

Wasn’t the source of a lot of it the random undocumented changes Reddit kept making to their api? That’s my recollection of the various video and gifv bugs at least. Those were the only ones that were super annoying to me anyway.

My only disappointment from Christian is waiting for years for the mythical iPad update. :(

Isn’t this how Reddit gold originally was presented? No ads, perks like the lounge, and if I recall right how much server time you’d contributed, along with the impact of daily contributions and etc

I had over 15000 Reddit coins when I cancelled my premium subscription last month. I’ve had it since they handed out years of premium when they killed Alien Blue. When it ran out I decided I enjoyed paying for no ads and still remembered when they’d tell you how much server time you paid for and would announce all the new servers coming online that came from gold users.

Anyway I used to get a kick out of spending my coins on people who hated it. I handed out more than a few in June, but it was money already spent.

And it was a really easy way to provide value to your existing users while also attracting and perhaps retaining new users. Instead they fired Victoria. Shoulda known back then. Shoulda known along the way multiple times.

Shoulda, coulda, woulda. But at least now I finally see them for what they are - arrogant, out of touch, and actual outward disdain for the users.

Thank you. As a recent refugee I like that lemmy can fill a void but it’s going to take community effort to have the engagement and diversity that Reddit did. As a decade long Reddit lurker I’ve decided that my lemmy experience will be better if I upvote the things that contribute, comment instead of just lurking, and rather than expecting to jump into this expecting the traffic and variety of the old place, I and the other refugees have an opportunity to make our little spaces in the fediverse a little brighter and grow with the community. It’s an exciting time after the dread of the deadline began to grow. I’m happy I’m here, and I’m happy you (and everyone) are here! Let’s grow together!

It’s really great! It feels like Apollo did in terms of scrolling and interacting and commenting - and has multiple account support and honestly looks just like Apollo did. Super impressed with how functional wefwef is for a web app.