“I never give advice, but there is one thing I wish you would do when you sit down to write news stories, and that is: Never use the word ‘very.’ It is the weakest word in the English language; doesn’t mean anything. If you feel the urge of ‘very’ coming on, just write the word ‘damn’ in the place of ‘very.’ The editor will strike out the word ‘damn,’ and you will have a good sentence.”

—William Allen White

Yeah, I don’t love that they’re on a Microsoft service, but GitHub is not their worst product.

In your defense, Mozilla did have a read-only mirror on GitHub for a while. I assume it’s the same repo, they’ve just repurposed it.

I’m not the OP, but it’s probably easier to get (free) community contributions on Github than on any other spot.

Or it’s to make it easier to fork, in case Mozilla goes out of business.

I’m sure there were some forum software packages that offered voting and ranking and such. All of the ones that I was a part of were quiet enough that you didn’t need such a thing, though; you could keep up with every post, even if only to decide that you weren’t interested in it, if you read it every third day or so.

Literally yes. The Pharisees of Jesus’ time were the conservative religious hardliners of Israel, having drifted significantly from their original theology because of political expediency, pushing their version of morality under the threat of harm; and Jesus represented a challenge to their power.

So more than just “would’ve,” they (well, their first century predecessors) did.

JD Vance does.

I don’t know about photoshopped. I would imagine that there’s a lot of heavy (and misguided) makeup going on, and I don’t think the lighting is doing her any favors, but she legitimately looks significantly different from her pre-surgery appearance.

It is definitely happening. The numbers are encouraging, and if this had happened ten years ago it’d be one thing. But by this point, we need more.

Look, sure, I’d love to get cheese and bread tips. But protests first.

Can we get just, like, a whole bunch of French citizens in here to teach us how to protest, en masse, at the drop of a hat?

(and also maybe teach us how to make…um…outdoor furniture?)

Trump said the 2016 election was rigged, and he won that one. He claimed that the 2024 election was rigged before it had even occurred. This is just the playbook. It doesn’t make sense. It doesn’t have to in order to work.

Yeah, I think “forumverse” isn’t bad. Though I have always felt like a Reddit-like interface and a forum interface are fundamentally different, in some way I can’t really put my finger on. I’ve been involved in bulletin board forums (fora?) in one aspect or another since the late 90s, so maybe it’s just nostalgia vs. recency bias; though it could also be the feeling that a “forum” seems like it should be hyper-specific, with different subforums on an already-niche bulletin board scoping down to even more niche and specific areas.

(Side note: Actually, now that I think about it, maybe the forum -> topic -> thread connection is why people like the name “threadiverse.” The word “thread” definitely seems like it arose from there.)

Anyway, I am fully ready to admit that I’m yelling at clouds here. Get off my lawn, dang kids and all that.

Definitely agreed.

I don’t think likes serve the same function as votes. The downvote, the ranking as a function of score and recency, and the surfacing and consensus-building that comes as a result are the main point of this sort of platform.

By contrast, the microblog “like” (at least on a platform without an algorithm, like Mastodon) doesn’t do anything other than express appreciation.

Threads are common in pretty much every form of social media now, from friend-aggregation sites like Facebook and Friendica to messaging services like Discord and Revolt. They’re hardly exclusive to a Reddit/Lemmy-type service. Mastodon even organizes posts into threads (though I think that it does so in a much more clumsy way).

(Edit: by “don’t they have votes?” do you mean polls? Because that’s a completely different function altogether than the Lemmy/Reddit vote.)

All of what is happening is because of wealth inequality.

Obviously. But that was true in all of those other situations as well as pretty much the entire history of the world too, so it’s not exactly the point I’m trying to make.

No worries, I do that all the time.

Reminds me of the old xkcd where a guy tells a bride on her wedding day that, extrapolating from that day’s events, within two months she’ll have four dozen husbands.

I’ve been calling them “Redditlikes” or “Reddit replacements” in ordinary conversation. We won’t need terms like that forever, though.

What about “Fedivotes” or “Votiverse?” Upvotes and downvotes are pretty key distinctives to this form of social network.