NaibofTabr

The IT worker pipeline:

help desk > sysadmin > CTO/CISO > goat farmer

I’m not a fan of bots ripping content from Reddit. But these would be humans.

The content on Reddit is also submitted by humans (well, mostly).

You would just be adding a thread inclusive of replies. Unlike bots, toot authors also reply.

This assumes that a post pulled from Mastodon to Lemmy will also push comments from Lemmy back to Mastodon (or at least notifications of comments)… which is a real infrastructure problem, and also depends on the Mastodon communities wanting that interaction, and the admins allowing it.

The value of communities in Lemmy comes from the members of the community participating in them. The members choose material to present to their community with intent, with the desire to contribute to their community. The community then adds value by interacting with the presented material (even a negative response from the community adds value to the community by refining the community identity and interest).

Automatically pulling in material from non-community members destroys the value of the community. It pollutes the community space with material that no community member chose prior to its presentation.

Niche communities really only have value when they grow organically. Trying to artificially inflate them won’t make them better.

What would be the point of trying to increase the user count, beyond “line goes up”?

If the drive you want to put the platter in has a faster RPM… would it even work?

No, and also if the drive has a different control board it probably won’t work. Some drives are shingled. Even the same drive make and model from a different generation might structure the data on the actual disk differently due to changes in the control board hardware or firmware.

Also… the read/write heads are, and must be, only nanometers above the disk surfaces… if you didn’t get the separation distance exactly right, I doubt it would work because the magnetic field at the tip of the head is tiny, and you’d run the risk of the drive heads crashing into the disk surface… the disks also would have to be perfectly level when you remount them… and also most dust particles are bigger than the distance between the read/write head and the disk surface, so if you don’t do this in a clean room you’ll probably get random errors if you actually get the thing reassembled…

This is a ridiculous long shot that only makes sense to try to rescue some data from a dead drive, which would have to be super valuable to be worth bothering, and it could only maybe work if you had an exact same year/make/model drive to use as a donor.

We need to get our own traditions

why not start off with our own r/Place

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If the plan was to provide evidence for the idea that Lemmy is a second-rate, tryhard copycat, well done!

This community is perfectly capable of generating its own traditions without trying to force it… and the fact that reddit recently tried to use r/Place to distract from the recent controversy makes this imitation that much sadder. If you’re going to crib something, at least go for something that hasn’t been touched for awhile.