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The devs' politics led to them valuing building a welcoming community over the principle of free speech. There was a strictly enforced moderation policy from the start, which may seem crazy now but it's a lot easier to do when your community is small. Toxic people definitely came in and got banned. On their way out you'd often see them complaining about how ridiculous it is to filter out slurs. The community that stuck around was really great. I'm not someone who posts a lot on any platform, but I was viewing lemmy every day for a couple years because the discussions were good, and there was very little hostility.

Today the community is more like reddit than it is like old lemmy, lemmy actually feels a lot less friendly today than it did like six months ago.

I do think the devs were wholly unprepared for reddit to shoot itself in the foot as badly as it did. Their project went from a passion project to serious business almost overnight. With time I'm sure they're capable of working through the issues we're facing today, but I don't think they were ready for the big migration when it happened.

"You seem like the kind of guy who would write poetry on an aircraft carrier" is my new go-to insult.

I saw one of these in action! I never actually knew her, but she was cc'ed in a lot of the emails I was getting. Our emails were first initial, middle initial, first three letters of last name, then extra digits if needed. J. E. Lloyd had "jello@..."

I'm using an android phone because apple doesn't allow anything like fdroid to exist on iphone.

Some stuff that’s colloquially seen as capitalism is okay. Me paying someone to clean my house because I hate that chore is fine with me.

Sometimes I do wonder how many "pro-capitalist" individuals actually think we're railing against exchanging money for goods and services.

It's been a long long time since I touched this but I'm still almost positive deterministic machines can solve everything in NP already.

I read it cover-to-cover like fifteen years ago. I've lost most of that knowledge since I haven't touched it in so long, but I remember I really enjoyed it.

Borderline whether it should count as pizza but the prosciutto pie is crazy good.

I'm local but haven't heard of Louie's, I'll have to check it out.

A good quality Detroit-style, like from Buddy's or from Frank's in Wyandotte a little Southwest of Detroit, those are my favorite pizzas. If I'm getting something cheaper like Jet's though I actually prefer the round.

EEE was my first thought on seeing that threads would federate, so I felt a bit of relief when I looked at the op just now and saw that Rochko directly addressed this, then I read what he said and it doesn't seem like he addressed it at all.

Gotta admit though, it was pretty cool when that subreddit simulation bot generated an askreddit thread titled something like "Redditors of Reddit, what's the biggest mistake my mom makes in bed?"