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Cake day: July 16th, 2023

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  • You can just use crypto for its intended purpose and not give a shit about the whole culture around it. I frequently use it to buy gift cards not available in my country, a VPN, and pay securely without giving away all my data.

    The real issue is people coming and bastardizing the concept by trying to get rich, and treating it as some kind of gambling machine.

    He didn’t say “i don’t believe in crypto because it’s a scam” he said “I don’t believe in crypto, except on its use as a scam” so it’d be great to hear why.









  • This is a bigger issue to leave it to users imo. Like lemm.ee admin said a few months ago, threads is too fucking big.

    Anything they push on the fediverse will be what users see in All. Plus, popular stuff on threads is determined through Facebook’s algorithm, and it will also determine the fediverse recommendations by consequence.

    The above is solvable if you block them I guess, but by default it will completely ruin everything.

    However, lemmy 0.19 block feature doesn’t work on users of an instance, only posts hosted in an instance. Add to this that Facebook is a cancerous company making all its money from ads. Expect their bots to comment and make posts pushing ads on all instances.

    All of this will also mean high workload on mods to regulate the content. Threads doesn’t bring anything good here, and defederation is probably the only way to protect us.











  • Didn’t bother reading their entire docs, but this all looks gamified as fuck. I knew this would happen, with these stupid points ingrained in every aspect of the site everything just became predatory and hostile unless you pay. It’s literally a game of “free2play” users grinding whatever is needed to get points (which probably is not feasible) vs buying the “special subscriptions”.

    Then the introduction is laughable, I want to peek into the brains of these mfers who not even weeks ago were taking subreddits from mods by force, and now preach of community independence from platforms.