Well I think that’s the wrong question to ask. I believe it’s probably best to get a handful of communities with a strong user base and encourage more people to come before we start slowly expanding out to more niche communities.

Take 4chan for example. To this day, I believe there’s less than 25-30 boards. Everybody just funnels down to one of some 30 odd communities, and they post their thread there.

For Lemmy, we have so many different fediverses and then on top of that there’s communities within each fediverse! Theres multiple ones for news, and politics and technology and memes. And I understand that is the appeal of being decentralized but it also means we never really amass numbers for communities. So, with that in context, I think it would be smart to encourage a strong user base in maybe one fediverse or assortment of communities before spreading out.

When you have a lot of small niche communities without a large population, there’s just no recipe to keep that community afloat unfortunately.

I agree with this. Leads to communities being drip fed and having small user bases where eventually most people (who are not committed) just end up back on Reddit.

Wasn’t there a study showing a large correlation between CEOs actually being psychopaths? Supposedly that’s the trait that makes them hyper successful since they only care about themselves?

Yes I watched a few videos about the NSA’s hacker group, TAO, and how they exploited backdoors and zero day exploits like crazy but without our knowledge. Went unknown for some 15 years til Snowden blew the whistle.

Scary stuff man.

I believe so. I guess a more appropriate one would be Textron since they still make helicopters?

Damn. I remember seeing a Reddit AMA when I first came across Protonmail some 7-odd years ago with the Protonmail CEO saying something along the lines of “we don’t plan on moving out of Switzerland because other country’s intelligence agencies concern us more than the Swiss intelligence” and I thought that was a good take. Hell, I still do in lieu of everything going on.

I wonder what happens now that they will be “physically diversifying across Europe”.

Basically :/

Crazy this is a thing actually being rolled out and it hasn’t hit world headlines.

Europe, USA and other countries are not far behind this initiative once they (governments) see how even more successful it is for collecting and sorting data to control citizens.

Time to go to GrapheneOS folks.

Yea I’m an LGBTQ+ ally:

The ally they’re talking about:

L ockheed Martin

G eneral Dynamics

B AE

T exas Instruments

Q inetiq

“our hiring system is even less discriminatory than our targeting system!” -their motto, probably