You know, I like to think of participating in the fediverse as being part of the construction of what internet culture will become.

It’s literally a chance to be on the ground floor of the next iteration of the internet. Maybe you’ll make something that lasts.

Yes, you don’t get to sit back and passively consume vast swathes of content, but maybe that’s good for your creative process.

I have noticed that a lot of the most irritating and vocal reactionaries come from those two instances, and it’s not improving much. It makes sense - this is an alternative to reddit and the people most likely to leave reddit will include a large number of people who get banned a lot.

If they’re reactionaries, they’re not going to have many instances that are for them specifically - because those instances get defedded - so they will tend to go for the open instances. So those instances get a lot of the worst people.

And if their goal is growth at the expense of quality, then they won’t fix it. They’ll just get worse. The reasons beehaw defederated haven’t changed.

Yes, do both platforms, and also we’ve already figured out that the patron model works. If enough people like something, some will pay to support the creator.

That fact doesn’t grow peertube right now, but I think it means we don’t actually need to monetise peertube directly.

They said it was far away so it may have gone subsonic on the way. Especially small common bullets like .22 will lose speed relatively quickly as they fly.

Malaria is a leading cause of child death, and it is preventable. We know it’s preventable because in wealthy countries we prevent it. It’s only allowed to spread in other countries because they are kept poor by the wealthy ones.

If these people were given the help they need rather than exploited and kept down, the parasite wouldn’t have as many opportunities to become resistant. This is not some unavoidable natural phenomenon, our economy demanded it.

I’m not seeing anywhere you’re explaining that I’m wrong about anything here, so there’s nothing to respond to.

Unless… oh no. I’m being insulted. Better defend myself in the eyes of this internet rando.

If it helps - although I’m sure you’re not hearing anything new here - plenty of people understand that Israel doesn’t represent the Jewish people. Much as Israel likes to pretend they do, and much as politicians agree because it suits their geopolitical goals, it’s not true.

Edit: I know for a fact this isnt new info because two other people said the same thing in this thread. Oh well, I’ll just add my voice to theirs.

You have me confused with someone else.

How very like a tankie to be unable to follow the basic and obvious facts of a situation. That’s necessary to become a tankie.

Yesterday.

Yesterday I finally looked up how to manually add a program to the main menu on my Ubuntu machine.

There is no default way to do it. I did multiple searches for the information, which I couldn’t get from reddit because the browser can’t login for some reason that I haven’t figured out yet. You either wrestle with massive configuration files, or you have to manually install a program called “Main Menu”. That provides an interface which is completely bespoke to do what is effectively adding shortcuts into a folder structure.

So I went through the process of figuring out what this unaccountably bespoke, third party specialised application wanted from me before I could customise the items on the main menu of my own machine. After all that… it crashed. I tried again, and nothing happened. It just… wouldn’t run the command any more.

I ended that travesty of an excursion into Linux’s many mountains of madness by giving up. I still haven’t added the shortcut. I decided I had actual work to do.

In Windows you do that by… adding shortcut files to a folder structure using a file explorer, literally the same way you manipulate files in every other context.

Every time someone tells me Linux is “easy” I have a new, fresh, utterly bonkers story of how impossible the entire experience is, because I am currently, actively trying. I have been trying Linux for 15 fucking years. Stop with the gaslighting. It is a nightmare.

15 years ago, I read all about how easy Linux is now:

https://slrpnk.net/comment/9790061

Nothing has fundamentally changed.

This is not a request for help. I do not want you to solve this current problem for me. I can do that myself. The problem is that these problems are neverending and people just cannot accept that it is a huge problem. Please, I beg you, open your eyes, acknowledge the issue, and stop lying.

It’s true, if it was still supported I would downgrade from 10.

But it’s not, I guess I’ll have to shift my main computer to linux sooner or later. I am not enjoying the thought if I’m totally honest. I just want the change to be over and not have to live through the interregnum.

The old world is dying; the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.

I love my body, I am very content with every detail of it, but I would make my tongue smaller in my throat.

It’s a tiny detail but it is ruining my life by slowly choking me to death at night. Some nights are good, others suck, and it’s a crap shoot.

The vast array of problems this causes are difficult to properly describe, and the damage it’s done to my life overall is incalculable.

If that one thing stopped being a problem and I could plan knowing it wouldn’t come back, my life would change virtually overnight.

If we’re gonna go for full on fantasy bodies I’ll take a dragon and we can have an epic battle in storm-rent skies as a metaphor for the struggle between good and evil.

Then back to my place to calm down with some orange slices and some foetal spooning.

“Unreliable narrator […] in a work of non-fiction” is a fascinating way to say, “liar”.

I’m not going to be passive aggressive about it, there’s a simple reality at play here.

Lemmy is FOSS, so the moment that these tankies try to give themselves some backdoor or whatever to gain undue influence over the system, it will be discovered, forked and everyone will switch and they will be left out in the cold with nothing.

Maybe that’ll happen, maybe it won’t. Maybe they’ll get sick of only running pariah instances and take their ball and go home, except we can make a copy of their ball and keep going.

That’s why I’m happy to use the system, it’s an open ecosystem and no individual developer has the power to torpedo it, even if they are the founders. Their authoritarian tendencies can’t do that much damage in the long run.

I think for me it was the disconnected world. I never got a sense of place or where I was going. I couldn’t spot landmarks, it was all just following roads that I had been told would lead somewhere I was supposed to be.

“Ran” in this context is part of a dialect of English in certain parts of the US. It is spoken that way, on purpose, by native speakers, and is thus perfectly correct.

Saying that it “makes people think you share teeth” shows that you are in fact aware of this cultural distinction and your problem with the usage is not about grammar but about classism, which is also clearly on show with your bigoted description of poor southern US people.

Fascism isn’t some genius-brained thing, it’s just how authoritarians operate, and Putin didn’t invent it.

US politics has always been deeply corrupt, and now it is losing even more of its veneer of legitimacy, which means it’s crumbled that much more.

The Russians aren’t the cause of your woes. Actually if you look at what happened with the neoliberal shock doctrine and the fall of the USSR, the US is way more responsible for Putin than the other way around.

Honestly calling someone a “direct report” sounds even more dehumanising. At least calling someone a “subordinate” acknowledges that you’re belittling their existence. A “direct report” sounds like a piece of paper.

Yup, see the person below you saying almost exactly that in more clinical - but clearly sincere - terms.

Edit: When I say they are “sincere” that is not to say there is any merit to what they are saying. I’m pointing out that they actually believe this garbage is justification for the mass slaughter of children.

Holy shit, you’re still pretending you’re not a tankie. Not a tankie, but you chose the name volodya ilich, which is a deep cut about Lenin’s childhood nickname.

And you’re still pretending you don’t understand what was wrong with your posts. Who are you saying this for? Do you actually think anyone believes you? Is this an elaborate troll? I wish I knew but this is beyond parody. If you are doing parody: you didn’t make it obvious enough. I’m so sorry.