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Holy shit, this was a cold blooded execution

Lemmy has like 40k MAU. Where did you get the 1.2M?

No, it was always about genai art. One just can't rename community urls

Ye I'm not sure I agree with that interpretation of history there. From what I've read it was a counter productive tactic as far as spreading anarchism was concerned

Which monarchies were ended by propaganda of the deed?

Unfortunately it's been proven that propaganda of the deed doesn't work

Yes. I also agree the way you say it can betray the implication. If someone suggest a feature and your only reply is "PRs welcome ;)" it points to it being dismissive. However, after being in the "game" for a while so to speak, I can also understand dismissiveness as well since there's plenty of people who do drive-by suggestions and get upset when the developer doesn't immediately jump to implement them.

An aside: this "feel free to open a PR" - without any justification or discussion about the merit of issue at hand - is the standard passive-aggressive response from every developer who is not interested in making the change. It's sad to see that it's also becoming the go-to retort for the project cheerleaders...

That's absolutely not true. I can't speak for all developers of course, but as someone who is juggling multiple large FOSS project, when I give that reply, 99% of the time I would like that feature, but I don't have the resources to do it myself.

Of course, one can't just put a bouba liquid in a kiki container!

Not trying to dissuade you or anything, but out curiousity, how do you imagine WP's pivot to GenAI will affect your installation? Or is it just a case of not wanting to support their developers?

I think switching to the same URLs and a familiar backend is going to be really hard. Since you're not coders, It might perhaps be simpler to make a clean cut and switch to a new CMS and archive/freeze the old site.

It was fun flying around and fighting, but the gameplay loop was just so bland.

They lost control of the narrative. All their millions in PR and advertising and it cannot cover up the terrible idea that is unchecked corporate GenAI. This bubble can't pop fast enough.