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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Now, hold on champ. There’s a couple of points here you’ve conveniently ignored or tweaked to suit your position.

    Firstly, I’m not aware of any charter that says I’m obligated in any form to offer the community a say in the decision. Should I have? Morally, there’s obviously an argument for yes. But did I have to, no. The choice was mine, and I made one. It’s your bad luck that I started the community, I suppose.

    Secondly, there was no bullying, soft or otherwise. What I said in the pinned post is what I meant: I want us all to come together in one community, and I’m excited by that community being on an instance that is dedicated specifically to tech communities. I’m excited by the idea of the admin of that community being focused on tech communities, and being actively engaged and available to address the needs of that tech community – rather than waiting on the busy admins of an increasingly massive instance.

    As for the rest of it, you can debate it all you like. I had a very eloquent and levelheaded message from @ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world today that I’m in the process of replying to. I don’t think they’ll like my position, but I’m certainly thankful they came to me, politely and respectfully, rather than lobbing a misguided and factually flawed post into the community.

    But hey man, cheers for playing.



  • Mike@lemmy.worldtoAndroid@lemmy.worldr/Android is now on the Fediverse!
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    Thanks Jeff, I appreciate the candour and respectful response here. I confess I was initially miffed that somebody would promote a ‘competing’ c here, but I quickly realised I’m not interested in rivalries here. Life’s busy enough as it is!

    I think we’re doing pretty well here, but the idea of an instance dedicated to tech is appealing. Happy to chat about it. I’m @mikestevens on Telegram.


  • I don’t think this thread was created by one of them — the creator of this thread isn’t listed as a mod over there.

    Like @Devgard I was tempted to lock or delete this thread — I feel like it’s a bit of a shitty thing to post — but it’s pretty clear from the upvotes that most people are excited for it. So… Whatever will be, will be!




















  • Sadly this is more a symptom of how trademark law works. There’s a “use it or lose it” aspect that compels brands to fiercely, overzealously defend their logo against any that look even remotely similar, or they risk losing their hold over it.

    Brands don’t do it for their own satisfaction; really the bad press it can generate is often enough to see any case dropped — but what matters is that they show an effort to ‘defend’ their trademark.