Depends on your definition of major. yiffit.net shut down (made read only) near the start of this year with 3 months’ notice.

There was another, small and laidback instance that was like a bookclub or something, that closed or went read-only with a few months notice, but I’m forgetting the name.

I can check out any time I like, but I’ve never left.

Mr. Doctorow has expressed before he doesn’t mind enshittification being used casually as it helps proliferate it. But strictly speaking by his original definition, there are three stages:

• Offer something extremely good to your customers, to expand reach even at a loss.
• Once enough of the market is captured, offer something very good or unique to your business clients, at the expense of customers.
• Once enough of business is captured, extract value from the platform at the expense of business clients and customers in favour of shareholders and owners.

Now, yes, this type of thing has long been common, in terms of oligarchic, monopolistic capitalism, cartels, mafia, colonial market exploitation, etc. But the original context of the word, to clarify, has to do with the kind of changes enabled by technology (twiddling), where digital firms can A/B test, degrade the experience in minor increments or for algorithmically based sectors, pretending certain failures are accidental glitches, so that it is hard to notice and the justice system can’t keep up. With traditional rackets, a court with enough of an anti-trust mindset can effectively identify the affected class, identify and effectively deal with the scheme. The modern “enshittification” is much more elusive, and we’re only beginning to think about how to tackle this form of subtle yet widespread manipulation enabled by digital technology.

Using them to create tone and context is very helpful.

An example of where it’s excessive to me is Martin Wimpress’ Ubuntu MATE blog, like I know what a paper cut is, the emojis don’t add anything and are more of a nuisance to read. I think Martin has toned it down in his more recent posts.

I have a limit I can tolerate, one emoji every other sentence.

I don’t use them in emails myself, but react emojis to internal work messages are fairly commonplace. A 👍 next to a message is often just a good way to know someone has confirmed reading something rather than needing to write “okay” which is ambiguous (what are you saying okay to?) and takes up space.

But I use a different range of emojis with different people when I do use them, to taste. With colleagues it’s one of 😁😆😅😕😯❤️👍👆, with friends it’s probably one of 🤣🤩😍🤔💀🧐😭🤯🥴😔😏😗💨 or 👀.

Chipping in a bit (30CAD quarterly). I really owe it to your and dessalines’ work, having been here for over 2 years now.

Only PATH, NJ Transit and Amtrak service tracks between New Jersey and Manhattan.

It can get you fired from Target

Here’s how for inline images: ![alt text for clients that don't load images](https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/cdff9461-8949-46a2-954e-1b82c8f7743a.webp "text that appears on hover/hold")

Are you looking for https://photon.lemmy.ca/?

(There’s also alex.lemmy.ca and old.lemmy.ca that I know of).

Canada’s building codes since around 2014 require the green man pictoral exit sign.

Old buildings have EXIT or SORTIE signs in red. Some renovated buildings have a mix of both.

Watch until the end for the best part /s

Be safe out there. Stand together. Call out reckless agitators. Hoping for the best from up here in Canada.

Ah yes, I was looking for the community that would succeed the one on feddit.de. (I can still see posts there but because the instance frontend is dead, posts are infrequent)

Once the Link 2 downtown bridge opens, it should be a lot easier for those at Microsoft to get in and out of the city and decrease personal automobile commuting.

Hey give us more credit, on Lemmy we also steer the conversation to Linux out of the blue!

Those are yucky comments anywhere other than an lemmynsfw community or a community with a suggestive name. I can’t glean much context from this screenshot of the post but in general, I believe horniness should be kept to horny online places.

We can and should do much better than that.

I’m not getting in unless it is piloted using an offbrand xbox controller.

Pour one out for the Titanic Memorial Iceberg

Yeah. From the outside it looks like a huge contest of “who can be the worst state” between MO, OK, AR, AL, LA, and MS. TN, FL and KS are occasional guest participants.