I love this bit from the article:

To a request for comment, X only sent Ars an auto-response, saying, “Busy now, please check back later.” (To be fair, in this case “check back later” is a good summary of what happened.)

Don’t worry, it’s just a Team Fortress 2 reference: https://youtu.be/PLmrdZVvtT8?si=CpKmRpdGU-l3aDa1

Is the bottom picture AI upscaled? It looks way crisper than I remembee that meme ever looking

It’s not, it’s based on an old meme.

Its not a bad comparison. Sure, some details might differ, but the underlying concept of a build that only uses the open source code is the same.

To give them their due (little as that may be), this only seems to prevent users from logging in to the mobile web interface, not from viewing content as a random user from Google.

I don’t think a roulette would work, because not all instances are created equal. Like, just look at Lemmygrad for the proof of that. There are other differences too, like some instances turn off downvoting.

Asking the important questions! I won’t deny this has already crossed my mind. I do think lemmings sounds like the best option.

I’ve had to change my mindset; if I care about it existing, then I have to be the one who makes it. I’ve already created !smashbros@lemmy.world and I’ve become a mod for !ukcasual@lemmy.world.

I’m kinda loving the vegan flavour in these memes, never saw that on Reddit and always got the vague impression a lot of people there looked down on it.

I think the conventional way this is handled on Reddit is separating memes and fluff into one one community (subreddit) and more discussion based content into another community. It works on Reddit because even if the memes get more engagement in an absolute sense, each subreddit has it’s own yard stick for what is doing well, so a discussion that makes it to the front page of its own subreddit will make it through to the front page of users who are subscribed, alongside the memes. I don’t yet know enough about how Lemmy ranks posts to know if this will work, but hopefully it will.