Piers

joined 1 year ago
[–] Piers 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He buys companies and lets the actually competent people do the work while claiming credit.

No he doesn't. He meddles and interferes constantly and convinces himself that he's adding value by doing so. That's why Neuralink is dangerous. Meta or Alphabet or Microsoft or whoever can be trusted to let the scientists and the legal team ensure there's very little risk of everything blowing up in their face horribly. Elon's little empire is constantly on the verge of an absolute disaster. I would not be remotely surprised if Neuralink messes everything up so much that it sets back brain implants and BCI's in general by decades. Purely because Elon can't just supply the people at his businesses with the tools they need then get out of their way.

[–] Piers 1 points 1 year ago

Depends whether or not you think most instances should take a stance against the far left. Personally I think the fact people treat Lemmy.ml as a generic all purpose sub rather than focusing that effort onto places like lemmy.world or lemm.ee is pretty messy and will only continue to create more and more issues. As for creating your own instance and defederating, why do that rather than just block their communities as a user if you want to avoid communist groups? Presumably there is a reason you wanted to be part of Beehaw?

[–] Piers 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you mean by /all?

If you mean /all on lemmy.ml, then yeah, it should, it's what that site is for. If you mean /all on beehaw.org, that is a different /all. You could certainly debate with the beehaw community/admins about whether or not the lemmy.ml memes community belongs there and if the general consensus is that it should stay, you can block the community for yourself. That's not the same as telling people who are using the community as intended that they are wrong for doing so.

[–] Piers 3 points 1 year ago

It's slightly different when you show consumers you're willing to screw them out of nowhere than when you show businesses that you'll do so. People shake that stuff off as an annoyance because they aren't dependant on those businesses behaving decently in order for them to keep the lights on. When a partner shows it could randomly kill your business at any moment for no good reason, you tend to realise the importance of disengaging from them.

[–] Piers 6 points 1 year ago

Meanwhile people are trying to argue that the new lower speed limit in residential areas in Wales will somehow be the end of civilization.

[–] Piers 2 points 1 year ago

You're on the memes community for a political instance. If you were complaining about politics in the lemm.ee or lemmy.world meme communities I'd be entirely with you.

[–] Piers 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah but more importantly, if you go to a website specifically aimed at communists and don't like all the communism that's a you problem.

[–] Piers 2 points 1 year ago

If people who don't like lemmy.ml's meme community because it serves lemmy.ml's community rather than their own personal preferences just hung out at a more generic meme community (like one at lemmy.world or lemm.ee) instead of whinging then that would soon change. You are the architects of your own issues.

[–] Piers 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You're not on "Lemmy". Your a pawb.social user on a Lemmy.ml community. Lemmy.ml is not Lemmy. Lemmy.ml is an Lemmy instance (just like pawb.social.) The purpose of the Lemmy.ml instance is for communists to come together to talk communist shit. The memes community within Lemmy.ml therefore is an absolutely perfect place for them to post left-wing memes. If you want to see memes by and for a general purpose audience then hang out at at Lemmy.world memes community. It's not Lemmy.ml user's fault you think they are a general purpose Lemmy instance like Lemmy.world is. That's your fault and the solution is for you to make an effort to find the spaces that serve your needs not to pick random spaces and tell them they are doing it wrong for not alligning to your incorrect expectations.

[–] Piers 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Lemmy.ml is fundamentally a communist community. Leave it and join somewhere like Lemmy.world if you want to be part of a community that doesn't have a political agenda. This energy you are expanding complaining that a social network isn't meeting your expectations could be more productively spent just checking which ones do and which ones don't. You might as well be complaining about all the Star Trek memes on the Star Trek Lemmy instance.

[–] Piers 8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Stop hanging out in spaces defined by political affiliation then. It's your responsibility to chose spaces that meet your needs. Don't hang out in the wrong place then sulk because it's not what you want it to be.

[–] Piers 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It is fundamentally a communist instance. The reason people are annoyed at you is that you want a "politics" free experience but rather than make the effort to curate what you expose yourself to you're just wandering into places and insisting they be what you want.

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