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.)

Yeah exactly. It does have some features that require integration with the init system, which systemd obviously supports, but it could be used independently of systemd quite happily, and other init systems could easily support those integrations.

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.

Ooh, I love it! I’m inclined to go with the banner already. Any objections?

Not only do I support ducks here, I also support geese!

I assume they were watching a website like this one: https://reddark.rewby.archivete.am/

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.

Welcome to Lemmy! Just by interacting your doing it perfectly.

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 loving Janelle Monáe’s new album! I’ve been listening to her music since The ArchAndroid, and it keeps getting better.

I think if he was in the thread trying to answer the hard questions, explaining how some of the apparently more l blatent lies were mistakes and apologising for them, and admitting that they need to go back to the drawing board and listen to the community more, then we’d all have regained a little trust in him and the company. But instead he’s ignoring most people and pretending everything is fine.

Thank you! Looking forward to helping out as this place grows.

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.