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Musk’s X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called by sunspider in c/technology@lemmy.ml

[-] sunspider@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago

I love this bit from the article:

To a request for comment, X only sent Ars an auto-response, saying, "Busy now, please check back later." (To be fair, in this case "check back later" is a good summary of what happened.)

I don't know what to title this by sunspider in c/memes@lemmy.ml

[-] sunspider@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

Don't worry, it's just a Team Fortress 2 reference: https://youtu.be/PLmrdZVvtT8?si=CpKmRpdGU-l3aDa1

Good CAT by sunspider in c/memes@lemmy.ml

[-] sunspider@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

"How to be a good human owner"

Identify yourselves. by sunspider in c/memes@lemmy.ml

[-] sunspider@lemmy.world 83 points 10 months ago

Here you go:

HELP IM TRAPPED IN A DILDO FACTORY

Pikachu reacts to an AI art by sunspider in c/memes@lemmy.ml

[-] sunspider@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Is the bottom picture AI upscaled? It looks way crisper than I remembee that meme ever looking

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TechCrunch mentions Lemmy / Kbin migration: Reddit CEO lashes out on protests, moderators and third-party apps (techcrunch.com)

submitted 1 year ago by sunspider@lemmy.world to c/reddit@lemmy.world

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Steve Huffman mad about blackout, wants to make it easier to remove moderators. (www.engadget.com)

submitted 1 year ago by sunspider@lemmy.world to c/reddit@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/201350

The funniest part of the article is how he's slamming the actions of unpaid moderators while saying "they’re mad because they used to get something for free, and now it’s going to be not free".

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman's letter to Reddit employees in response to blackout by sunspider in c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

[-] sunspider@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hey! I'm keeping this as it's sharing knowledge with new users from Reddit. However, in future please find another community to post this on, because it is not related to the lemmy.world instance specifically.

The blackout is starting to have a financial impact on Reddit, but we must stay dark! by sunspider in c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

[-] sunspider@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hey! I'm keeping this as it's sharing knowledge with new users from Reddit. However, in future please find another community to post this on, because it is not related to the lemmy.world instance specifically.

Subreddit refugees be like... by sunspider in c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

[-] sunspider@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Hey! This post is not specifically related to the lemmy.world instance. From now on, posts such as these will be removed, in order for the community to stay on topic. However, as this is a highly upvoted post, I'll just lock it for now.

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Community moderation policy (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by sunspider@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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Hey there lemmings!

It's your friendly neighbourhood Sun-Spider here. I recently volunteered as a mod on this community, so I just wanted to introduce myself and let you know my plans.

Many of you will have seen that there are a lot of off-topic posts in this community right now. I suspect that new users, especially ones not yet familiar with how Lemmy and the fediverse work, are seeing it as a kind of default community or a place to generally discuss the world of Lemmy.

However, as it says in the sidebar, this is a community about the lemmy.world instance specifically. If it's going to serve as that, then it can't be drowned in off-topic posts.

To that end, I plan to start going through and removing posts that are not discussing this instance, with two exceptions.

Firstly, I know that some of these posts are providing good info to new users coming from Reddit, so I'd like to not take those down just yet. Since this is such a visible community, keeping them has value. Therefore highly upvoted posts that are specifically for newcomers from Reddit may get left.

Secondly, I know that removing posts with many upvotes and comments could be seen as overly harsh. While we don't have a karma system here, if you had a post that has done well then suddenly seeing it removed is painful. Therefore if a post is off topic, but is nonetheless highly upvoted, then I may instead simply lock the post. This preserves the content, but prevents further engagement. This should mean that it gradually falls off the front page, whose default sort is Active.

TLDR

Posts that are not about the lemmy.world instance specifically will be removed, with the following exceptions:
Some posts providing value to new users will be left
Some posts with high engagement may be simply locked

Update

Check out the new communities !newcomers@lemmy.world and !general@lemmy.world! These are intended to be a good home for a lot of the content that's getting removed/locked.

Does lemmy.world allow criticism of the CCP? by sunspider in c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

[-] sunspider@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

Hey there. This instance currently follows the code of conduct and rules for mastodon.world: https://mastodon.world/about

Discussion and civil criticism of these subjects is allowed, but name calling, ad hominem attacks, and other uncivil behaviour breaks the rules.

Also remember that specific communities here may have additional rules.

It looks like we can't pin comments yet, so apologies if this reply gets buried. For now I'm going to lock this post, as the discussion has degraded and is full of rule-breaking.

Obsession by sunspider in c/autism@lemmy.world

[-] sunspider@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

This is me and Lemmy right now lol.

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What icon should we have? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by sunspider@lemmy.world to c/ukcasual@lemmy.world

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This community still needs an icon, and just the flag is boring. What does the community want to see?

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[Video] I mained Olimar or at least I tried to | Character Crisis (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 year ago by sunspider@lemmy.world to c/smashbros@lemmy.world

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Only On Tuesdays is a smaller channel I started following recently. I think his Character Crisis series is great content, and I thought it might be appreciated by people here.

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[Discussion] Introductions (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by sunspider@lemmy.world to c/smashbros@lemmy.world

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Hey all! Come introduce yourself. Which Smash game do you play? What kind of player are you? Lets get to know one another!

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[Discussion] What would you like to see here? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by sunspider@lemmy.world to c/smashbros@lemmy.world

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Welcome smashers!

This place is pretty empty right now, but I'd love it to be a welcoming community of Smash players. To that end, what kind of posts do you want to see when you come here? Memes, combo videos, discussions, or something else? Let's discuss it and build the community we want to see.

I'd also love feedback on the rules. Are there any missing? Is the language clear enough? Let me know.

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Hallo vanuit Groot Brittania! (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by sunspider@lemmy.world to c/nederlands@lemmy.world

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Hallo Nederlanders; ik woon in Groot Brittania, maar ik ben half Nederlands van mijn vader. Ik heb nog familie in Nederland en dus wil ik mijn Nederlands oefenen. Is dit en goede plek om dat te doen?

dont be a spaz by sunspider in c/ukcasual@lemmy.world

[-] sunspider@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I think if he was in the thread trying to answer the hard questions, explaining how some of the apparently more l blatent lies were mistakes and apologising for them, and admitting that they need to go back to the drawing board and listen to the community more, then we'd all have regained a little trust in him and the company. But instead he's ignoring most people and pretending everything is fine.

Remember to support your instance and lemmy devs by sunspider in c/memes@lemmy.ml

[-] sunspider@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Good shout! Just signed up to the OpenCollective for my Lemmy instance.