Meritocracy is a myth though, perpetuated by those lucky enough to benefit from existing systems.
It’s completely circular. I’m on top and the people who are on top are the best so because I’m on top I’m the best.
It never accounts for all the myriad non-merit related ways folks get on top in the first place.
This feels like a copypasta
God this is horrific. I love it.
I’m a totally separate person, and I can also verify that forcing business users to use IE for certain services is definitely a thing.
I’m not sure what your point is? It’s not necessarily going to apply to ALL banks, but it’ll probably apply to SOME of them, and that will suck if it happens to be your/my bank.
It’s a classic right wing talking point. They like to present the Guardian as biased and bullshit as the Daily Mail or the Mirror or something.
Yeah, also still learning of course, but that’s my understanding of why Beehaw.org defederated. Too much new data getting copied over.
Massive numbers of users is great for a business, but not necessarily great for discussion.
Lemmy doesn’t feel like Reddit, but in a good way. Individual comments actually stand out, and it’s not a sea of lowest common denominator trash and reposts.
I think people should stop conflating big numbers with success. If anything, we’ve seen the kind of nonsense big numbers lead to, with an IPO on the horizon and all that comes with that.
I mean yeah, it looks to be mostly that way with Lemmy.World
I’ll admit I’m not entirely well versed in this, but what development? Is the API being continually worked on? I’d imagined it was relatively stable, especially given how awful Reddit has traditionally been with any kind of feature development.
Hell, they couldn’t even make their own app, they had to buy Alien Blue and then drive it into the ground for $$$
I do think bots are a major culprit. If you look closely, they account for a remarkable amount of the “content”.
Yeah, this is what I’m most interested to see. Right now it’s a forward thinking, principled thing.
Once Relay, RiF, Apollo, BaconReader, and all the others go defunct, a lot more people are going to take notice. If they use the awful official app, they’re going to realize Reddit has changed dramatically and not for the better, and they’ve just been shielded from the worst if it with their 3rd party apps.
This is a really good point, and one of the reasons I’m happy to make my new online home here.
The type of people who act like this is nothing, or worse, act like there’s nothing that can be done and we should just roll over, won’t have gone through the trouble to come here. And yeah, I’m with you, they can all hang out and circlejerk the same jokes over and over along with the bots.
Best of both worlds, and we’re all happy. A bit of positive selection bias.
Unfortunate but this is the truth. Too many of us have been accustomed to small luxuries like “affording takeout”, but we unfortunately have been priced out of being able to afford stuff like this.
It’s a tough pill to swallow if you’ve been doing it your whole life and think that a functioning adult with a full-time job should be able to afford some takeout every now and again. We are not the generation that gets to enjoy that privilege, it seems.