I’m js, doctor house can verbally abuse me all he wants as long as I get that fantastic success rate lol

I just saw the CRT Gameboy one the other day, it was pure art. Subscribed after that lmao

Bruh, It’s not even 8 AM for me yet, I’m still sipping my coffee!

I can do most things reliably except for the ankles, but I’ve long since lost my ability to easily do my back and neck

And it’ll happen to you to meme

I once rolled my ankle but in the most perfect way in which instead of pain, it was the most pleasurable “bone popping” I’ve ever had in my life. All those tiny ankle bone just popped like satisfying bubble wrap that you just grabbed and popped a bunch, it was so satisfying I was dazed for like a solid minute or 2.

I have spent 15 years trying to do it again to no success :(

The developers are openly communist

They are openly authoritarian “communists”, you don’t need to simp for China, Russia or NK to be a communist. But they do and they leverage the .ml Instance to do so. This is the point of contention for most (including myself) donating to them, and it was brought up in those threads numerous times. If they put in place a new admin team that was as unbiased and fair as possible, they would massively increase in donations. They won’t though because they know exactly what they’re doing with .ml to further their personal political ideology.

To paraphrase one user on one of those threads “Devs should do dev work and not mod work, admins/mods should do admin/mod work and not dev work”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support or defend acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof.

I pickup “downvote followers” from time to time because of what I say about .ml lol

The food gets a +10 buff if the kid has to stop doing their homework from the table on the corner to take your order and goes back to it after

It’s not what they personally believe that most have issues with, it’s how they leverage what’s widely seen as the “official” developer instance. Whether they like it or not or what they say it is or not, it is recognized as such and as the “public face” it should be governed in an unbiased way, or all politics on it should be banished from it.

If they were running a personal instance for their personal politics that didn’t have official Lemmy development and support comms, there would be a LOT more people donating for Lemmy’s development

https://lemmy.world/post/29072279

The off-site backup is in another galaxy, it’ll take a bit to get here

Uh oh, sounds like someone didn’t go up Drumps ass far enough.

Ah well, I’ll take the wins where I can get them lol

I got one of those automated feeders and flashed it with custom ESP32 firmware so I could tie it in with HomeAssistant and get fancy notifications when it fails to dispense food or it runs out or whatever.

Ofc it also provides a way for me to manually trigger the food dispensal routine, so now I can get scammed from anywhere in the house!

Well we can’t risk some startup somewhere using one of those fancy distributed AI projects and a bunch of cheaper laptops with decent GPUs after all! You’re not thinking of the poor poor NVIDIA shareholders!

Yea, I never said they didn’t, and I’m generally a proponent of separating art from the artist.

However, by conflating their official work and furthering their personal politics through the moderation of the lemmy.ml instance (which, whether they like it or not, IS seen as the “dev” or “flagship” or “official” instance) It’s not currently feasible to actually donate money while maintaining “separation of art and artist”

If they turned over admin duties of .ml to a new, as unbiased and fair as possible, admin team nearly all the friction for almost everyone to donating would evaporate.

As someone in another thread put it “Devs should do dev work and not mod work, admins should do mod work and not dev work”

When they’re off the admin list

And a new, unbiased and fair, team is in place. I’m quite clear about that

Until then, I have recurring donations for PieFed, .world and .cafe

Yes, a comm dedicated to documentation (and the occasional meme) of what they say and do

Here’s a quick recap with a selection of direct evidence links: https://lemmy.world/post/29072279

How do they exploit their position as devs to push their political agenda? Do they add something to the code that gives them some exclusive benefits?

Look at how the .ml instance is positioned. People will hear “That instance is run by the devs and all support and other official development comms are on it” and will automatically gravitate to it and the reputation of Lemmy as a whole becomes tied to it. And other instances are hesitant to defed from it because of that.

So now the devs are in a defacto position of influence, regardless of if they want it or not. Now they have a choice, they can moderate it fairly and unbiased (i.e. not using it to further their personal politics) or separate its day to day operations to another admin team. As another commentator in this thread put it “The devs should do dev work and not mod work, and the admin team should do mod work and not dev work”

They’ve already proven that they cant do the first choice so now the only viable option is the second one, which they’re probably not gonna address.

If you mean they just host their own instance, isn’t it the whole point of Lemmy and what all the other instances are doing? Some even block other instances that do not match their political bias to not ruin their echo chamber. I mean I’m on lemmy.world which probably would be more accurately named lemmy.ultra.left.usa for some time now.

Because of my first point, they tied all sorts of official development stuff to .ml, many instances don’t want to defederate because of that and the perception (it doesn’t really hold when you look at MAUs) that they have the biggest comms on lemmy, it’s almost akin to holding them hostage in my eyes “if you or your mods want official on-lemmy lemmy support, official announcements or access to Lemmys BIGGEST comms then you HAVE to stay federated with us!”

Things would be different if they were just running a personal instance with no official Lemmy anything on it, then it would be much easier for instances to make a defederation decision, just like the rest of the triad

https://lemmy.world/post/29072279

Maybe you should check in with your partner dessalines and your other admin davel then, because there’s a whole lot of modlog entries and anti-Ukraine propaganda spreading with their name on em