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In response to the disastrous Spez AMA, /r/Videos have announced that they will permanently shut down on 11th June, one day ahead of the planned blackout in c/technology@beehaw.org

[–] lodion@aussie.zone 6 points 2 years ago

Good on them. Only way to send the signal. If Reddit follow through and boot all the current mods, instate new ones... it will be chaos.

spez editing his response to remove the pre-canned "A:" in c/reddit@lemmy.ml

[–] lodion@aussie.zone 4 points 2 years ago

Well, that I did not know. I guess that would be the reason.

awesome-lemmy-instances adds server uptime in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

[–] lodion@aussie.zone 4 points 2 years ago

Doh! Started measuring just before I rebooted for an upgrade. Oh well.

spez editing his response to remove the pre-canned "A:" in c/reddit@lemmy.ml

[–] lodion@aussie.zone 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

He's also manipulating his karma score, has to be.
This is him at the start of the AMA:

And after:

How could his karma have only gone down by ~300, when he was downvoted thousands of times?

Does lemmy store remote instance's images? in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

[–] lodion@aussie.zone 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Your instance will locally generate and save thumbnails for external links in posts.
Also user avatars, community icons etc for your instance.

Here we go, the AMA with /u/spez is live in c/technology@beehaw.org

[–] lodion@aussie.zone 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Every response of his has been downvoted to oblivion. The community has made their thoughts on him loud and clear.

Which instances should be recommended on join-lemmy.org? in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

[–] lodion@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago

I've stood up aussie.zone primarily for Australians, but open to anyone. Same as poVoq, its just me at this stage.. but I've disabled community creation.

Which instances should be recommended on join-lemmy.org? in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

[–] lodion@aussie.zone 4 points 2 years ago

That works.. hadn't realised it was randomized with only two recommended.

Which instances should be recommended on join-lemmy.org? in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

[–] lodion@aussie.zone 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Ideally the recommended instances section wouldn't be static. It would put a different instance in prime position for each user that visits... a poor mans load balancing I guess.