That’s not what happened. It wasn’t any more or less toxic than any other place on the internet, the lead admin just got burnt out. He asked the community for volunteers to moderate the instance and apparently nobody showed up.

So he’s shutting down the instance next month. It wasn’t dysfunctional or toxic, he just sacrificed a lot and AFAIK never even broke even with server costs.

The key reason is that we just don’t have enough people on the admin team to keep the place running. Most of the admin team has stepped down, mostly due to burnout, and finding replacements hasn’t worked out.

What AI slop? There is a surprising lack of spam on Lemmy, if somebody wanted to attack it you’d see a spamwave with hundreds of posts per minute. It happened once when we got spammed by a chinese group but never again.

They stole OPs brain before he wrote it

FR. For anybody that doesn’t know Paypal’s customer support is abysmal and they can freeze your account for petty reasons without warning. There are many cases of people fighting with Paypal for months before being able to cash out, you should never use it to hold money.

For people who don’t know what this is referencing:

which in turn is a riff on these stupid facebook posts:

This is a legitimate strategy in Cities Skylines where you can drive up the taxes so high to earn insane amounts of money then lower them back when you lose half your population. Helps with traffic, too

My favorite thing about all these revolution working class rise up posts is that it’s always posted by people LARPing about fighting back online but also doing nothing

DONT USE UNETBOOTIN. This tool more often than not breaks something and causes issues for people. Somebody I know used it and broke booting into Windows, he had to use a USB anyway to fix the bootloader.

This isn’t even them scraping private chats and small servers, they just scraped public servers in the discovery tab. None of that information was ever private, and every user can browse the chat history there.

Does Lemmy even know what EEE means anymore or are we regurgitating words we heard from some article now?

What’s it going to embrace and extend? WSL has existed for ages and is just a way to run Linux in a convenient container on top of Windows. That’s it. It’s not an attempt to “extenguish” Linux, literally just make the development experience on Windows less painful so people don’t switch to another OS. This has nothing to do with EEE.

Open sourcing it with a permissive license can only be a good thing, and again they’re doing it to be more appealing to devs and maybe get free bug fixes from the open source community. It isn’t some grand conspiracy. But of course this community will react to news of “proprietary blob is now open source” with pessimism.

I got hung up on this before too but it’s apparently “Windows Subsystem for (using) Linux”

Lemmy LOVES this ragebait shit

It’s coming out at a terrible time. Between Clair Obscur which seems to be a game of the year contender, Oblivion Remastered, Doom The Dark Ages, and later this month Elden Ring Nightrein… Too many good games lately.

Please god not the distrochooser site, when someone asks you where to install Linux you send them anything but that.

In other news, 8bitdo is no longer shipping in the US due to tariffs

53% is abysmal, it might as well be a coin flip. FYI this article is about a random one called BrandWell, popular AI detectors like GPTZero are much more accurate.

That’s because the old game is still there, it’s internally running the same engine under the hood but with Unreal Engine 5 used for its graphics & rendering.

> Buy Elden Ring

> Look inside

> It’s not a ring

Non-paywall link: https://archive.is/7bcDN