Burnout Paradise had a really awesome soundtrack, too. Driving games always pay for the bangers, and it must be a lot of fun to write fake news and whatnot for interstitials.

Could make a fun little game out of showing someone’s posting data (e.g. number of posts per community, number of comments per day, etc.) but without the username, and let us try to guess who it is.

The restraint that man showed to not beat the everloving shit out of the guy who kidnapped and presumably intended to rape his daughter is just incredible.

Even if ads were a thing, they would be instance specific, unless they just took the form of posts advertising things (much like Reddit has) which personally I find to be toxic as hell. How would that money make it to content creators?

Personally, I’d prefer to read posts from people who want to post them because they have something interesting to share or something they want to discuss, rather than people who are trying to maximize engagement because engagement = income. There’s plenty of other places to go if you want to be fed that kind of content.

I think the sweet spot was 20-25 years ago when we had special interest forums with tight-knit communities around specific topics. It would be nice to get more engagement on Lemmy in niche communities, but I’d argue the way to achieve that is to go to other places where that content is posted, and share links to content on Lemmy, as a way to spread the word. Part of the problem there though is recognition, and if people see links to 20 different lemmy instances, they won’t associate those with lemmy as a whole, they’ll see it as all disparate things, and I’m not really sure how to solve that.

I can imagine that the Fediverse could develop remuneration models that are much fairer and more sustainable

What do you even imagine that would look like, without degrading the experience for everyone else? Not throwing shade, just curious what you’re thinking of. Like, who is hypothetically paying in these scenarios, and where is the money coming from? I think everyone would agree that if it’s coming from ads or anything similar, nobody is interested.

The best feature of Lemmy is that it isn’t as big as e.g. Reddit. I much prefer the size we have now to some big mega-site. Yes, there’s less content. Who cares? None of us need a constant stream of new content 24/7. It’s OK if you’ve viewed everything on your feed. It’s more reminiscent of forums from the late 90s / early 2000s, especially in the more mid-sized communities. I like that.

Can’t tell if you’re trolling or if you need your sarcasm detector calibrated.

Instigated by someone who won’t live long enough to experience the consequences and allowed to happen by people who have enough money and power to insulate themselves from the worst of it.

In fact, get a legally enforceable commitment to leave before the vote. Put a date on it.

Do you know something about these particular pastors that the article doesn’t mention, or are you just generally hostile towards people who choose to follow a religion?

Misread this headline as ‘Conservative groups’ and couldn’t figure out for the life of me why they’d do that. This makes much more sense now.

Closest thing you’ll find is likely to be prediction markets, but “whether it rains tomorrow” isn’t something that would be available unless it’s in the form of “Will X event be rescheduled due to rain?” or similar more boolean things.

They’ve been doing it for a while. They’re all low-budget, made-for-TV movies that follow some pretty predictable formulas and appeal to a very specific type of person - usually the lonely, single type.

She was a successful businesswoman with a promising career. He was a small-town nobody. Can he win her over before she returns to the big city?

He might have felt pressure to keep up with your dad due to just meeting them / wanting to make a good impression, and not realized how drunk he was getting. Doesn’t excuse his actions in the least, but might help contextualize them… given it doesn’t sound like this is something he would normally do.

Oh, see, that’s your problem. You’re supposed to put beans, rice, meat, cheese, lettuce, guac and whatever else you prefer inside those the taco shells or tortillas, not tasteless mush. I’m glad we got to the root of the issue.

Well, you’re entitled to your opinion, I suppose, even if it’s wrong.

Honestly can’t tell if many of the comments here are serious or satire, and that bothers me a little bit.

So when do we reach the ‘drag people out of their homes in the middle of the night and beat them to death in the street’ phase of enforcement?