The whole imaginary network is gorgeous. I wonder if we could convince them to work here as well.

Biggest thing lemmy devs need right now is more devs, not money (though money doesn’t hurt). If you could find someone new and convince them to work on it (possibly with a bounty) that would probably be more helpful.

They’re fine when appropriate. It’s nauseating how they’re inserted everywhere.

It’s the one the devs run and so is often treated as such, but they discourage it in order to encourage decentralization and because they don’t want too much moderation overhead.

Mastodon has a flagship instance for normies before mozilla. Lemmy doesn’t

Musk didn’t own twitter when I made that comment. Twitter has revealed how bad he’s gotten. I don’t think my comment applies anymore.

yeah well, we’re talking about the illegal stuff

Two options I’m guessing:

1. Well, why would they bother, the whole world knows it’s all a shame anyway, it’s all just posturing. Well except the tankies, and they’ll suck it all up.
2. Putin has surrounded himself with too many yes men, and is now living in some sort of dream world.

“Centrism” isn’t really a position one can have… what you mean is “in support of the status quo” which is IMHO also right leaning as it is inherently conservative.

This is why we need more diversity of thought

You don’t solve a problem by ignoring it.

The hyperloop is odd actually. Musk didn’t actually want to do it, he just tweeted out some random thing as a reaction to the price of California’s high speed rail proposal, but at that point his fanbase was used to him just doing crazy things so they piled on him. That’s why he set up that competition, to see if it was viable.

Source: his biography

Besides, that it doesn’t matter if musk just claims something, anyone can claim something. Anything he’s gotten behind has succeeded.

Which of musk’s ideas were going to be big but flopped? I can’t think of any.

While some servers definitely have gone their own way, and some we don’t even know about, I do feel the main group, consisting of lemmy.ml, lemmygrad, lemmy.ca, fapsi and some others have a sort of shared culture.