I’m convinced the extreme inflation post-COVID was caused by greedy companies realizing that many working-class families had managed to save and build a nest-egg during quarantine, and that they could jack up prices on necessities to bleed them all dry.

If inflation had been the result of wage growth increasing the price of labor, profit margins wouldn’t have soared they way they did.

I don’t know about Lemmy specifically, but I’m definitely all in on decentralized, ActivityPub-based social media.

Feel like we’re about to see an explosion in ActivityPub interfaces, and if that happens, it’s probably inevitable someone makes a UX novel or innovative enough to pull me away from Lemmy or some other 1:1 reddit clone.

Reddit: “Subreddits are for the community of reddit users who rely on them.”

Community of reddit users: “We think the sub should stay private, and if you force it open, we’ll spam sexy John Oliver and porn.”

Reddit: “wait no not like that”

This message is mind-blowingly tone deaf.