BrightCandle

What I miss in the transition from forums to Reddit and Lemmy is the longer forum discussions that could go on for years. They had their issues, they regularly went off topic and resulted in insults being traded and trolling but they also got to a depth that we don’t see anymore. They were much better for getting to the detail of a thing and with Reddit/Lemmy being so focussed on today the entire discussion is gone tomorrow. The tree format is better for the branching discussion but its also got a real depth limit.

We lost something important when most of the forums shuttered. I really miss usenet for that as well, it alas didn’t evolve with the increase in spam but it could have been something still in use if it had.

Need another one now for all the removal of side loading, that is another big antitrust issue. Best make the fine actually worth something this time.

Its a really great market for picking up talent if your company isn’t currently suffering AI psychosis. You don’t have to use talent scouts or anything else expensive, your competitors are just laying off their top engineers who previously you had no chance of getting and they aren’t even doing it out of necessity.

It wont be impacting my privacy, it will be impacting my participation in the places where it applies. It will likely just push many to other platforms with even less interest in complying with this legislation, its where all the adults that care about their human right to privacy will be.