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I think it's supposed to evoke an image of an animal getting trapped in a tarpit.

IIRC, originally it was adding a delay on SMTP connections to keep spammers busy.

https://verifalia.com/help/email-validations/what-is-smtp-tarpitting

They're just going to do a classical boil-the-frog operation:

• Step 1: Make it opt-in and present it as the new cool thing.
• Step 2: Make it opt-out, and if the users opts out, show a scary warning about how the cool thing won't work anymore.
• Step 3: Silently opt-in, and hide the opt-out option deeply in a settings menu.
• Step 4: Silently opt-in, remove opt-out, but it still works with a registry hack. Microsoft apologists will still thinks it's cool because "just use this simple registry hack bro".
• Step 5: Remove opt-out alltogether, and silently opt-in everyone who had previously opted out.
• Step 6: Enjoy their boiled frog!

Do they not pay themselves?

I'm guessing it's not a full time job for them, but a hobby?

Honestly, even back in the day I hated the low-poly character model look of early 3D games in the late 1990s and thought it looked worse than the sprites we had before that.

Hmm, on one of the KDE plasma updates, my wallpaper did change to their infamous teletubby wallpaper. Mind you, I was still using the default wallpaper at that time, and this was their new default wallpaper, so that's probably why.

My apologies, I didn't know this and stand corrected. I no longer think that one of your suggestions is stupid, I think both of them are.

In the old days we called it tar pitting.

Chartreuse is named after a liqueur, not after wine. It's literally green.

Nah, reddit restoring comments is a myth. You just didn't delete all your comments, even though probably you thought you did.

See, Reddit, being the duplicitous bitch that it is, doesn't really show you all your comments when you go to your profile. It's limited to your last 1000 (?) comments or so, any comment that goes beyond that horizon is gone from your view forever, but it still exists in the thread.

The way to solve that is to first do a GDPR request. After a few weeks you will receive a zip file containing a file with all your comments and a link to it. You can then use an overwrite and delete tool and point it to this information. It will likely run for several hours or even days, depending on how many comments you made, because reddit throttles edit and delete requests, but it will effectively delete everything.

When presented with a choice, people usually pick the community that is the most active and already has the most subs.

But I am definitely giving it a shot.

Hey I applaud your effort, yesterday the top post was several days old and top day was empty on one of the subs, so this is already better.

I'm a bit skeptical if that will be enough though. Active discussion is the meat and the potatoes for me when I go to a tech community, and for that you need more subscribers.

We should still try to have instances get along and try to find some common ground

Common ground can only be had with reasonable people you actually have common ground with. Personally I think it's a fool's errand to try to talk sense into the lemmy.ml admins.

The only solution I see is to salvage what we can from the bona fide communities that still reside on lemmy.ml and then put a big fence around it, so can have their toxic waste dump of an instance all to themselves.

It’s still annoying to migrate

I've switched instances three or four times when I was still getting my bearings on lemmy. I didn't really find it annoying. The only tedious part is resubscribing to the communities you were in, but there are tools for that.