congratulations and best wishes for a continued speedy recovery. your gratitude touches my heart - thank you.

The movie citizen four did an excellent job detailing different ways a government (in this case the united states) can do this.

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

spez fucking with 3rd party developers, mods and fucking down on lies to the community.

here’s a question, wouldn’t it be more impactful to encourage users to redact with a protest statement promoting fedverse first?

assuming they’re doing a 30 day backup scheme then this becomes part of their working set going forward. messing with the data in this way especially if we can do it in volume might make it harder for LLMs to extract useful information from our noise.

we then can then start deleting our posts as a second protest after that.

thoughts?

doing the same as we speak. My replacement text is “Moved to Lemmy because Reddit has become greedy with data generated by their community”

wonder if regular carpet bombing the open subs with a black “Reddit is killing third-party app (and itself)” might be effective? gives the mods an “out” because it’s not against TOS - and if it were widespread enough eventually a few of them will hit front page

not my drama but a friends… her mom has uncontrolled diabetes along with borderline personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder.

a couple of months ago she got and at home manicure from some shady outfit. ended up with an fungus which when asked to recount how this could have happened she kept lying and saying she didn’t know.

she didn’t keep up with the care on it so it became infected and they needed to do surgery to remove her nail. during the surgery they discovered it had infected the bone and the tip of the finger needed to be amputated.

they do this and send her home. my friend settles her in after surgery, went i guess to use the bathroom before leaving only to find her mom gathering her purse with keys in hand.

as you might expect my friend was appalled and asked her where she was going. mom replies…" well your aunt asked me to drive her to the airport today "

friend looks out the window and yes, there’s auntie “waiting on the street with her purple suitcase” 🤣

apparently mom knew this and said nothing to aunt or my friend.

so when you’re dealing with your drama, send thanks into the electrons that it could be much worse ☺️

I’m not a doctor but did study anatomy for yoga teacher training -

Do you sit a lot? if so it sounds like maybe the psoas or hip flexor which wraps from the back around to hip may be tight or irritated. If the hip is out of whack that might take the knee with it.

Have you tried gentle stretches to see if it helps?

There’s great beginner youtuber called Yoga with Adrienne who has a bunch of these kinds of stretches. When i say gentle stretches, please be kind to yourself and be super gentle 😉

There’s a big difference between pain and discomfort. If you feel any sharp pain, needless, numbness stop the stretching immediately. If it’s just achy just stay there for a bit and see if it loosens up.

Finally as someone who had had back issues - i was told if you ever experience any sudden weakness, numbness or have trouble urinating get to the ER asap. That might be a nerve problem which is serious and needs attention.

Please let us posted on how you get on if you’re comfortable sharing. Sending all good thoughts through the electrons for a speedy recovery ❤️

after all the rain we had socal is riddled with mosquitoes that don’t seem to mind the weather. watching this thread to see if someone’s got something to help us

unfortunately yes the blackout will eventually pass … right now i think the only question is at what cost to reddit?

curious what the zeitgeist would be if the vc or fidelity made soez step down, which replaces him and to what net effect?

seeing his credibility is completely shot publicly, is this at all worthy of putting on the table?

Catharsis. think that’s all it is and will die down in due time.

great info thank you!

thanks for sharing!! when we’re we’re visiting seoul it was crazy to see all the ads everywhere and girls in bandages on public transit. here in the usa you’d be hiding but there …nope

i’d also be worried that some corp would try to take control of the centralized sso mechanism and thus control the user base. imho we must avoid the instinct to centralize anything.

but potentially maybe there’s a federated directory where people could register and be assigned a server to do load balancing to key problems like lemmy.ml are experiencing (?)

yeah agree with you here. i was explaining this concept to my other half who doesn’t understand tech but did say this approach makes a lot of sense.

i’m here with you!! want to see the whole reddit house burn to the ground. 🙌🏻

new refugee - hello and thank you for welcoming us 🙋🏻‍♀️ very first of what i’m sure will be many posts here in the fedverse. nice to meet you all!

reddit know the list of named 3p apps out there are. likely tens not hundreds.

they could have implemented an api management solution to charge those folks differently than what they charge a corporation training lllms.

i sell this solution to enterprises for a living and it’s not technically hard to implement. truly. thousands of companies large and small with fewer resources than reddit have done it.

reddit could have done it in less than a couple of hours and charged a fair rate to these developers while making bank on ai.

but no, spez the egocentric jackass chose this path instead.

corp controlled social media is both dangerous and toxic. the only way to fix this is to burn them to the ground so burn it we must.

deleting my reddit account & data on the 30th and watching the latest developments re: blackouts, communities going indefinitely dark even today … with excitement for the future.

would have never thought in just a week i couldn’t go from loving to loathing something so much.