My guess is there is an admin that knows where each contributor is from. And can approve or decline check in requests.

Gotcha. That sounds like a good solution.

I’ve never moved, but I assume you just create a new account and start over. Or is there more you can do?

The difference is the way it is run. You got it. And if one day Midwest.social starts doing things you hate and treating it’s users like crap, then come on over to lemmy.world or lemmy.ca, or one if the other thousands instances.

People hosting the database are not the owners of the platform unlike Reddit. They get to tell us how we can use it just because they host the database.

Oh, right, good point.

Yeah, it’s one of those “no bad press” kind of things. It’s bashing on AI, but Perplexity actually looks pretty good by comparison.

Is this an ad for Perplexity? I’ve never heard of it, and now I’m googling it. So effective ad if so.

It’s happening. I mentioned in another thread that there’s a good severance community that helps me feel like I don’t need Reddit for a show for the first time.

Well, those things you love about Reddit have only been getting better on Lemmy as time goes on.

I think major Reddit news is absolutely relevant to the Lemmy community. If nothing else, it is a good reminder of what we want from our communities and why we are here and not there. In addition, it may lead to a surge in active users.

The Reddit ecosystem relies on engaged users to downvote bad content and report potentially violative content.

I love how they refer to their corporate profit method as the “Reddit Ecosystem”

They make it sound like this is the universally owned and managed ecosystem that we all are responsible for maintaining and we all equally benefit from. The corporate overlords decide what they want the ecosystems to be, the rules, the content, the algorithm… All to benefit their stock prices and bonuses.

But all of a sudden it’s the community’s responsibility for maintaining THEIR rules for THEIR profit? How about fuck you Reddit.

I know this doesn’t affect me as I am plenty happy being on Lemmy, but the audacity still pisses me off.

Trump and Elon took office. Now all I see is Trump posts.

Saying it runs poorly is a huge reach. Lemmy runs great and gives me 75% of what I wanted from Reddit.

Any idea what ip addresses were used to compromise it?

If they’re coming from Reddit, they probably expect a little negging.

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I don’t think questioning a science story is the negativity that comes from today’s news cycle.

Scientists of Lemmy, tell me why this is BS

I use Instagram only for recipes. I hope to someday be able to replace that entirely.

I could not figure out what a rotflol coptor was…