Yes, but look at bud light. Boycotts can be hugely damaging. If people start boycotting Intel, Dell HP and other suppliers will happily offer amd instead. Similarly, companies with policies of not buying from suppliers with slave labour or supporting genocide may decide Intel falls in that category now. They do it as a PR exercise but ultimately it’s consumer sentiment that drives it.

Intel will need to decide if the sweetener is worth the risk. From war interrupting supply. From boycotts. From brand damage.

Or they are worried that Intel will pull out due to risk of consumer boycott and want to push the deal through.

The problem with blocking a community is if you block the one that eventually takes off, you miss out. I am just accepting it for now and assume it will sort itself out.

Another option would be to upvote one and downvote the other, to help speed the process up.

It’s not that it matters. It’s that if an acronym is new, it makes sense to clarify its meaning until it’s clear to all.

That’s a harder ask if people have already tried it and found it lacking.

How does that work from a user perspective? If they were subscribed to [email protected] , would the subscription transfer over to the new community without them realising, or would they need to manually subscribe?

I don’t have a problem with communities being able to move. The users should be notified and have the option to transfer too or leave. Over time, the values may diverge.

I also think the power should rest with the mods to do so. However, it would be wise for them to consult the community. For larger communities, you’ll likely never have consensus, so someone needs to be able to decide. If any instance became hostile or overrun by undesirables, moving would make sense.

I imagine the current threat from meta will be divisive and some communities values may differ from the instance they are on.

Awesome Photoshop skills. Making zuck look like a robot (cyborg) takes a lot of work.

It’s speculation, but still relevant to technology. You’ll find speculation in most news sources about technologym, otherwise it’s just press releases. How large platforms develop is technology news.

In Musk’s case, he’s divisive so people are more likely to share or comment on posts about him. There’s also a large element of schadenfreude.

If you don’t think it should be here, downvote away. However, your low effort comment becomes more virtual trash than the post it intends to berate. Instead, you could post better content too.