The Burning Man fiasco is the ultimate tech culture clash. Climate change, protests, tech, elitism, (untrue) Ebola rumors — everything converged when heavy rains left thousands of people stranded i…::Climate change, protests, tech, elitism, (untrue) Ebola rumors—everything converged when heavy rains left thousands of people stranded in the Nevada desert.
Egh, I’d love for this place to be successful. I just already see it failing.
Egh, there’s reasons for that, pardner! Lemmy ask you this: which site does better: a company that hires developers and system operators to keep a site running, or a bunch of volunteers running their own instances?
The answer of course is: define better.
Better stability? better features? That’s reddit.
Better content? Better user experience? Something that won’t be fucked over by the whim of one person? That’s lemmy.
Differn’t strokes for differn’t folks.