I’ve explained it in another reply. It’s not about being “stationary”.

Gardening on Reddit has 7.8m subs, that’s more than the whole Fediverse with all the bots.

Another issue is the quality of people. For example, I’m into kitchen knives. Dr. Larrin posts on Reddit about steels and related metallurgy. Does he post on Lemmy? No. Stroppy Stuff posts on Reddit about strops and sharpening. Does he post on Lemmy? No.

I’m also into mountain biking. Reddit is full of engineers, brand representatives and athletes, none of them is on Lemmy.

No one worth their salt gives a shit about Lemmy, that’s the hard truth. If you want to get quality hobby content - you go to Reddit.

Lemmy is for 15yo kids posting memes and US politics for those who got banned on Reddit. And for some devs to satiate their curiosity.

There’s no way to reclaim anything, only lose money.

Normal people don’t give a shit about Lemmy. If you want to dive into hobbies, local news and other fun stuff - go to Reddit :)

There’s no one to sell to and scraping would only hurt the people. Next time try to use your brain.

Sell to whom?

Premiums going up will hurt regular people more than Musk. Hurting your fellow countrymen is such a lefty thing to do…

There are two ways of looking at it.

1. The time machine is using itself as a point of reference to comply with general relativity. The only way to time travel is to move forward in time. The way to move through time would be to move a lot faster than the Earth, so that every minute for you inside the time machine would equal to many years for earthlings. And if you’re moving that fast you’ll fly away from Earth.
2. The time machine somehow has a knowledge of the whole universe, this way a Newtonian model applies and an absolute point of reference exists. That allows unrestricted travel both forwards and backwards in time, but that also means that the Earth will inevitably move from under the machine to follow its path across the universe.

No matter how you twist it you’ll end up all alone in space. You need a machine which can move through both time and space at the same time.

What you’re describing is a machine which moves both in time and space. A machine which only moves in time would result in this meme no matter how you twist it.

Well, if you consider only Africa and the Middle East to be “global South”, then maybe. But I’d say South Asia is also a part, has most of human population there and pretty much is aligned with Russia and China.

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You need a company for legal protection. There are too many idiots in this world who will try their best to sue you for no reason. The bigger you grow, the higher the risk. That’s why we have the Mozilla Corp and Linux Foundation: a company will pay a fine in the worst case scenario, but a private person behind the project is looking at a jail time.

That’s rich coming out of you!

No way!

Well, you can’t do anything meaningful at large scale without a company. Every large and popular open source project has a company behind and there are legal reasons behind it. If the Fediverse becomes big enough, there will be a point when a company will be required for it to function.

Well, nothing is sad on its own, it all depends on the priorities of people behind. If the priority is to keep Fediverse small and under the radar, then everything is going great.

Nothing. Except that they don’t give a shit. Fedi population is tiny and irrelevant.

Let me put it into perspective. Currently Fediverse as a whole has around 50k daily active users and 1.3m monthly active users split between multiple services with Mastodon being the most active. These are the stats for something that exists for over a decade.

I used to work in a company making some social media products. When we launched our main product we had 1m daily active users within a month and I don’t remember how many monthly users (that was over 10 years ago). And it just grew from there.

Facebook Threads has 100m daily active users now. The whole Fediverse is a tiny echo chamber and no one cares or knows about its existence.

Good news from Syria, finally! I really hope they will manage to rebuild the country and treat all peoples of Syria as equals.

There are no issues with electronic voting.