Not at all surprising, the term “NFT” has been completely poisoned in the public consciousness. Finding another term for it is necessary.

Of course. That explains why when day transitions to night you see the Sun zoom off into the distance until it diminishes to nothing, with the Moon zooming in from the opposite direction until it’s big enough to see.

It’s one of the meatballs, isn’t it?

You don’t get to be that rich by paying bills.

I’m describing the problems people are going to want to solve, not any specific existing system.

As a long-time cryptocurrency observer, it is going to be very amusing (in a bitter sort of way) seeing everyone discovering that they’re trying to solve the same problems that cryptocurrencies have been working on solving for over a decade now. And then finding all sorts of ways to contort themselves into solving them differently from how cryptocurrencies did it so that nobody can accuse them of being “crypto bros” or whatever, even though the technology is perfectly applicable as-is.

That actually sounds like a useful idea. I’ve seen a lot of people on Reddit dismissing Lemmy/Kbin in very derisive terms that suggests they haven’t actually tried coming here, but if there are communities that are actively bridging the gap it’ll expose them to it more.

I’ve seen the 90/9/1 rule talked about in this context; 90% of users lurk, 9% interact, and 1% actually contribute content.

Reddit’s problem is that the people that care about this issue are heavily concentrated toward the 1% end of that spectrum. If they go away then what’s going to be there for the lurkers to lurk at?

I’m now seeing reports over on !RedditMigration@kbin.social that people who have deleted all the comments from their accounts - even those who did it years ago, not just in the past few weeks out of protest - are having all their comments reappear again. This apparently also includes comments that were overwritten with edits.

Scummy behaviour from Reddit, but a potential boon for archivists. People who are running backups or maintaining archives of Reddit comments might want to take this opportunity to re-check historical deleted comments to see if they can be collected now, in this remaining window of API accessibility.

Indeed. I was expecting a two-week “calm before the storm” at this point, as the protest blackout ended but the API was not yet removed. But the protest continued and Reddit keeps stirring the pot. Interesting times.

I know that in the end Reddit will be able to brute-force themselves a “win”, but if the Fediverse gets a nice solid critical mass of users as a result then I think Reddit’s destined for a long decline.

Personally, I’m not finding Lemmy/Kbin to be difficult and I still plan to use both until old.reddit finally goes away. It’s a transition, not a switch being thrown.

Nice. Any plans to include kbin instances as well?

Of course, the people of the Donbas were just sitting there peacefully doing nothing when all of a sudden the Ukranians started shelling them. That was the start of the military action, silly me. Good thing all those vacationing Russian soldiers happened to be there a the time to defend them.

I think we’ll see a temporary “return to normalcy” after the protest finishes and most subs come back online. But come June 30 and the end of third-party apps, we’ll see a bunch of users come back to Lemmy/Kbin again.

In a way, this seems like the best way of driving things. The protest has raised awareness and got a ton of development work going, and then there’s going to be a respite giving instances time to prepare themselves for the second surge.

I wish the AFU had the courage to not waste the lives of their soldiers and come to the negotiating table so that no more lives are senselessly wasted

What’s to negotiate? Russia has seized Ukrainian territory. Ukraine wants it back. There’s nothing for Ukraine to concede.

The only side “wasting” lives here is Russia, if they’d just go home the war would be over. Ukraine’s not going to try seizing any Russian territory.

I don’t see any problem with him continuing to have secret service protection while in prison. It’s not like the secret service would be obligated to try breaking him out or anything like that. They’d basically just be more guards.

How dare the people rise up against their rightfully-installed rulers and decide they want someone else. What did they think this was, a democracy?

Anyone that “knows” they will completely overpower Ukraine apparently stopped paying attention to reality many years ago. They’ve been proven to be incapable of it.

Russians, without any double meanings that Russian sympathizers could jump in and say “aha, racists!” or “aha, russophobes!” over.