Yeah, it’s nice. I’ve had it 2 years now. It’s sturdy, hasn’t broken yet. I’m not feelimg the need to upgrade yet. If I was buying new, I’d get something newer. I was considering a GPD Win Mini, but $1000 is a lot and GPD has so many QA issues,

I have an RG351MP.

You create your own community. If the mods are jerks, you can convince people to switch.

Someone would just start their own lemmy instance if the mods are unreasonable.

Every handheld made in the past few years plays GB/GBC/GBA at 100%.

That isn’t the way the Internet works. If the 220k lemmy users were the most active out of the 800m, then reddit is basically dead.

Actually, the government did just call up Twitter and tell them to censor things. That’s the whole point of the Matt Taibbi Twitter Files stories. But you also have other non-government groups policing the Internet, calling up Twitter/Facebook/Google/etc and demanding censorship.

On every conspiracy theory forum, there’s at least one person posting antisemitic stuff. It’s a standard trick to discredit them. I.e., person A posts a true conspiracy theory X. Person B posts the same conspiracy theory and also something antisemtic. Does that automatically mean X is wrong?

https://www.vice.com/en/article/kwpqmn/is-the-pr-industry-buying-influence-over-wikipedia

They’re probably smart enough to not get caught nowadays.

There are conspiracy theories on the Internet that Google and Facebook were created to centralize control of the Internet in a few large corporations, who then would be able to control what information people see. You also have to think bigger than government. Who has more influence? The President? Or the CEO of Blackrock and other large hedge funds, who control all the voting shares in pretty much every public corporation?

For example, if you control the mainstream media and big tech, you can make an issue seem like a huge problem by overhyping it everywhere. You can cover up real problems by never mentioning them at all. The CEO of Google is NOT elected. A couple of hedge fund managers get to pick the CEO of Google.

How do you know that there’s only one person working the account? When you’re a reddit moderator, it’s anonymous (same on Wikipedia). For all we know, all the power mods are working at a PR firm somewhere. Spreading misinformation could be their full-time job. Controlling the flow of information on Reddit and Wikipedia could be worth more than Reddit’s actual profit.

With lemmy, if someone is squatting a bunch of forums and moderating them, you can always start your own lemmy instance and start your own forum with the same title.

There’s nobody to sue. The CEO is dead. Oceangate is a bankrupt company with no assets.

Those charities have huge overhead. Very little money goes to the actual cause.

Getting a sitewide link permaban is the highest honor that Reddit can give to a website.

There are lots of mistakes Reddit made that shows they aren’t trying.

• They could have given more advance notice for the API price increase. This would give apps more time to update their code to use fewer API calls. Many apps are subscription-based, so it would give them more time to update their subscription price.

• The price should have been based on Reddit’s actual costs, actual revenue, and actual profits. I.e., if it costs Reddit $0.10 per user per year and their revenue per user is $0.15 per user per year from ads, then the API price should have been $0.15-$0.25 per user per year. The actual pricing shows they made it artificially high to kill the 3rd party apps. (I don’t know what the actual numbers are.)

• Even if Reddit really did want to charge $5 per month for API users, the right way to do it is to start from a lower price and increase it 20%-50% per year until they get to their target price.

• If a user had Reddit premium, they should have been given extra API call tokens they can give to their 3rd party app.

I was surprised that r/godot didn’t turn into a discussion devoted to Samuel Beckett.