This is such an amazing article, The Verge’s staff is still capable of some excellent journalism.

Me when I start seeing sickoposting in my default Lemmy comms

Oh that’s nothing… In hard techno it’s not uncommon to find tracks with an almost completely flat waveform

Or just https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/

He has a mirror of his blog on his own website without paywall. Not sure why he still publishes on Medium too, visibility I guess…

Eh, it’s a bit naive IMO. It’s nice to focus on your small, close-knit community, but it does not live in a vacuum. At some point the world (read: capital) will come knocking at it’s door, and if you’ve been sticking your head in the sand until now you will not be prepared for what happens.

Also, what if I don’t want my community to be small and close-knit? Lemmy is way more interesting now that it was a month ago, after growing by an order of magnitude. Ask anyone who’s grown up in a rural town and they’ll confirm this: tiny communities are fucking boring.