What does it mean to “Shout down a speaker”? What are they speaking about and what is the purpose of shouting at them?

Bananas, potatoes, corn, oats, bread and rice are all pretty cheap. When I’m trying to not spend any money I’m fine with a bowl of oatmeal with some sliced bananas in it.

I’ve been seeing this a lot lately. Lots of bandwagoning going on. It is what it is though. People are fallible and often just follow the herd instead of thinking.

I think you are right with old listings and then maybe new people looking at old listings to make new listings without verifying.

Scalping I can understand completely, but this is a thing that is still made and available all over the place.

There was that whole medical bill transparency thing, but who knows what the guy actually did beyond signing a document and likely not even reading it.

I block all communities that post news. I’ve never seen somewhere to enter text filters like this. Not sure I’d want to anyway.

Don’t know, but it is a news community so I blocked it. 👍

Anything official such as a public service or local government should really stop using Twitter. I pretty much consider Twitter to be a porn site with a bunch of angry people arguing about nonsense so there is no chance I can take your organization seriously if you are using this platform.

This appears to be from 3 years ago and only funds to last 6 months. Has there been any additional funding since then?

Interesting news. Thank you for the clarification. Is there any announcement about this?

It’s nice how fast Lemmy is growing, but I think it is a good idea to manage expectations. In the world of free and open source software you can’t just throw money at the problem to make it better. The development of Lemmy will occur at will whenever someone feels like contributing. It’s not someones job to develop Lemmy so it isn’t guaranteed to happen at all.

Edit: Just for clarification I’m not suggesting to not donate. I’m just saying donating doesn’t guarantee development.

The lemmy.world statistics are visible from the home page. There are currently 130,000 registered accounts on lemmy.world which is far larger than any other lemmy instance. Primarily because most other instances had restricted registrations of some sort for awhile.

I can’t think of any other website of a similar style that is larger than the entirety of lemmy. The next biggest might be kbin.

What is this device? I’m confused as to why it even exists.

Edit: I discovered it is literally called “Car Thing”.

Here we go. This guy knows what’s what. 😀

I like watching long seemingly uneventful videos about trains or just of trains moving on a track.

Yea I just block them. Which is pretty much all political, news or religious related communities. Also the occasional “SFW” communities that are still NSFW. Just because they have clothes on doesn’t mean nearly naked people are safe for work.

For sure. I don’t mind moderating on Lemmy because nobody is making any money here. I’m doing something because I want to. However, I’m not going to do something even if I want to if someone else is making money from my efforts and not giving my me fair share. Whatever that may be.

Probably just fools. Working for a corporation that makes money from your work without sharing any of it with them. Nobody should be moderating on Reddit without getting paid.

Moderator rewards program? How much money are they going to be paying them?