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Cake day: July 10th, 2023

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  • How do people manage to invent intricate phrases?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology

    It seems like nowadays no matter what you do there’s a word for it and it’s probably considered something horrible by someone somewhere.

    For the set of all things, there is usually someone who doesn’t like said thing, yes. That is how people and things tend to work, since there are so many people and so many things.

    The tone of this post makes me think you did something shady lately and you’re laughing off getting called out. And who’s unironically saying ‘kts’ in 2025? Cringe









  • Reddit is owned and controlled by a corporation (Condé Nast.) They disabled 3rd party Reddit apps to force people onto the official Reddit app which also broke many third party moderation tools. This disproportionately impacted power users, frequent posters, and mods-- in other words, the people who made Reddit the important community it was.

    They showed an unwillingness to listen to their community or work with the unpaid volunteer moderators, instead banning the moderators who took part in the Reddit Blackout and replacing them with mods willing to cooperate with the enshittification of the site.

    They’ve been mangling the web interface to be uglier and less usable (old.reddit.com is still up, but the mobile version of old.reddit.com is gone). They’ve been experimenting with ways to show more ads and subtler ads.

    Lemmy is open source and federated so it can’t get bought up by a company and cored out for shareholder value. You can use different instances, or a variety of apps. You can use (or create your own) third party tools for accessibility and moderation.

    Lemmy is currently a smaller universe than Reddit was, but it has a high ratio of good posters and moderators who care personally about their own communities, so hopefully it continues to grow.