I joined Lemmy back in 2020 and have been using it as qaz@lemmy.ml until somewhere in 2023 when I switched to lemmy.world. I’m interested in systemd/Linux, FOSS, and Selfhosting.

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    6 days ago

    When the program is running it’s probably stored with 32 or 64 bits, but that probably isn’t the case for the network packet layout. I can imagine them wanting to optimize network traffic with over 3 billion users even if it’s just a small improvement.

    Also TIL that Erlang’s VM apparently stores strings as linked lists of chars. Very strange.

    data representation of string 'phi'



  • At some point they l announce that paying for a Reddit premium account allows you to be unbanned and free to do whatever you want.

    What other reasons or ideas can you think of, that mass banning users, (some with years of age and contributions, some of them mods.) could be the first step in a plan to capitalize.

    To me it seems like it’s a consequence of both cost cutting moderators and lowering the threshold for bans to make the plaform more appealing to large companies advertising.