and this is why lemmy is a limp-wristed do-nothing. too many people here want to stick their head in the sand. but by all means, pls share some more star trek memes.
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Emmie@lemm.ee 6 months agoLemmy quality descended quite quickly. What’s the more intelligent tech community alternative?
Masterblaster420@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Emmie@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I mean I have curated my list only to non world news and non memes sites and I was left with literally nothing except this community
Masterblaster420@lemmy.world 6 months ago
but tech news ad nauseum is ‘meaningful’. lol okay.
Emmie@lemm.ee 6 months ago
See I have this weird feeling that we are too different to even connect somehow. You didn’t even read my comment. Any benefit of doubt of mine is pointless when you just throw some bland one liner and don’t even want to discuss anything. It’s like talking to a wall really
refalo@programming.dev 6 months ago
sramder@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Take a deep breath and tell us how you really feel ;-)
I got here a bit late and it seemed like there was some decent discussion going on. Practical advice on how to lock various phones.
Some high quality pasta about how to survive the coming civil war ;-) Honestly good advice for anyone considering civil unrest there.
It’s small, but what’s really missing here? Someone dragging up the constitution? Being forced to incriminate yourself is wrong and any evidence gleaned should be inadmissible. Cops shouldn’t manipulate people into giving up their rights… but that’s the country we live in.
Reddit was a wash in low effort feel good upvote nonsense too. It just got buried faster.
To each his own but until I have time to post a bunch of high quality content, I’m not going to complain so bitterly.
Emmie@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I am just annoyed that those sites became so mainstream that’s all. It always gets shitty then but if it is really good it is unavoidable.
I guess the key is to make it bad enough so normal users won’t touch it but good enough so that some of us will enjoy it
sramder@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I think they were victims of their own success weren’t they? Gawker was already kind of a tech-tabloid, happy to report rumors (which were often true or at last truth adjacent).
That kinda made them popular with both hardboiled techies who wanted to know when my shit was going to come rolling down, and regular folks who just wanted some good gossip… maybe wanted to touch our feet or whatever ;-)
With that success and the capital investment it garnered Gawker bought up all the good tech news sites.
Unable to produce meaningful content for that many sites on the limited budget their investors demanded Gawker invented the listical. And humanity wept —and kept clicking for some damn reason 🤨
Many years passed and the listical was clearly dying, so Gawker sought out a real zinger to boost their profile… I’m a bit hazy on the details, but it sounds like Peter Teal fucked them up the ass with Hulk Hogan‘s penis. 
At least that’s how I remember it ;-)
Lesrid@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Probably because America bad, eat the rich.