troyunrau

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 10 months ago (16 children)

Yes. Best thing we can do is be ready (from a tech perspective) and welcoming (from a human perspective). They'll come or they won't.

Compared to summer, Lemmy now has thousands more users, hundreds of active communities (no where near Reddit yet on niche subjects), actual made-on-lemmy content in a bunch of places, and a bunch of apps that mostly have the bugs worked out. It's probably fair more appealing now to join than it was in summer.

We still have roadblocks: general confusion about federation (the email analogy seems to be working best), difficulty properly explaining how to sign up, a harder time finding communities, and it's impossible to migrate between instances without starting fresh.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

Larian making everyone looks bad, not just with the quality of the game, but the business model too. I hope Larian made a fucktonne of money off of BG3 and that other studios try to capture that magic.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Once upon a time, when they were the scrappy upstart disrupting shitty search engines like Yahoo and Altavista, there was a moment when they were awesome.

The tipping point was going public, in my opinion.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

You're getting downvoted because Lemmy. But you're absolutely right. Laissez-faire doesn't work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Ah, pity. It probably doesn't scale well then.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (3 children)

This is my first time hearing of SearXNG. Did some poking. They don't have their own engine tech all all, eh? Just riding on top of other results?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Baby steps towards a return of curated truthful content? Nah, just CYA so they don't get sued.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Agreed. This is not the de Havilland Comet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It's about 1 millifurlong.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Thing about phobias is that they're irrational (usually). Good luck :)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (9 children)

Wafer scale material. Nothing to see here, move along.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Did you live?!

Statistically, flying on a 737MAX is safer than driving -- by such a huge margin that it isn't even funny.

Boeing has some work to do on some things. And the aviation industry isn't perfect.

The news cycle, on the other hand, is feeding hysteria because clicks. Seriously, more people die driving to and from the airport than they do on planes. By a huge margin. But because they're spread out into multiple tiny events...

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