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How do you feel about Mbin in that regard? Do you feel like development is in a healthy place, with not too much of a burden on any one person?

I guess similar situations as the one described here could occur, with an inherited code base and all it entails.

I don’t mind proprietary software - it seems it’s what a lot of people want, and I simply won’t use it.

Promoting proprietary software named “OpenSomething” should, however, be banned as false marketing.

I’m honestly quite glad people can stay here for months without getting into the technical aspects of the platform. That’s probably a pretty central criteria for it to ever achieve wide success. :)

This is just not correct. It runs on a protocol - anyone can create software that uses the same protocol and communicate with Bluesky users as equals.

Were they right to develop their own protocol rather than to improve upon AP? Probably not. Is ATproto completely dominated by Bluesky? Yes. But is not like Twitter.

I can - and do - communicate both ways with Bluesky users through Mastodon and Bridgy Fed. That would simply not be possible with Twitter.

Thank god we have gotten to a point where it’s possible to hang around here without being immediately aware of the Stalinists haha

I’ll print you a diploma!

Yeah, I think it’s fair to say nothing we do here is particularly well known in a broader sense. You’re lucky if people have heard of Mastodon - if they know that it’s decentralised that’s incredible, and if they understand what that means you’ve basically encountered an expert.

It’s a bit of a challenge that people looking at these sites from the outside will struggle to immediately understand what is really going on here. It just redefines the internet to a point where people cannot really understand it without having it explained.

• Lemmygrad: classic crowd longing for the Soviet Union
• Lemmy.ml: The catch-all version of Lemmygrad, like Lemmy.world except criticizing Putin or Xi can get you banned
• Hexbear: Like Lemmygrad, but for memes and shitposting

It’s already up and running. I follow several Bluesky users in my Mastodon, some Bluesky people follow me as well.

It has to be manually enabled on both sides though.

I kind of like the idea of just using pentagram. ⛥

Close enough to the current logo in appearance, scales well, not used by other social media, satanic undertones.

Yeah, it’s an important and challenging job, and I have several friends who are psychologist.

It is, however, a bit of a stereotype that a lot of people who choose to become psychologists are often to some degree themselves viable clients. Perhaps wanting to understand themselves is a motivation to study it in the first place.

They can still do an amazing job, but I think a lot of psychologist find themselves in a Pagliacci situation where they can help anyone but themselves.

Thank god he is guaranteed to hate Jordan Peterson - he has redeeming qualities as well. But reading back my comment it’s uncanny how much it sounds like him.

A friend of mine keeps doing this. He’ll pretend to be an expert of fucking anything, and you can generally tell immediately that he doesn’t know shit. When he goes on about things that I actually do know things about it’s unbearable, and of course his ego is too fragile to handle being told he’s wrong.

We have a lot of impressive common friends with awesome general knowledge, and I frequently wonder how the hell we have the patience to keep him around. My general knowledge is shite, but at least I’m quite open about being ignorant.

He’s hyper sensitive about social situations, yet introducing him to new people is almost always embarrassing.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, he is a professional psychologist.

I guess it’s bordering on being literal poison. Chilli peppers have evolved specifically to be inedible by mammals. So I guess being obsessed with hot sauce is not a toxic trait per se, but it’s in the neighborhood.

More seriously though, I love spicy food, but not all food is supposed to be spicy. Leave other favours room to breathe as well.

I think you have a point, and it is indeed something different - if two people live together and simply have different preferences or care about different things, it’ll of course lead to some friction.

I think this goes both ways in most relationships. I keep bothering my girlfriend about the bathroom sink and the office desk we share; she complains about me keeping half dirty (half clean) clothes in a pile in the bedroom. That’s not what it’s about, though I think it can get easily confused.

It’s more about the “I don’t know how to use the washing machine/book bus tickets/change bags in the vacuum cleaner/cook a pie/change bedsheets/clean the toilet/make a vinegrette/change diapers/whatever”, where instead of an emphasis on learning the skill it’s only left to the other person.

It’s not all men, but it is common. I think it’s a systematic issue that men don’t carry the full responsibility for. They’re raised by mothers who do everything for them, and while their sisters are taught how to take care of themselves they are simply left to “be boys”. And then they go out in the world and find a woman who can effectively replace their mothers.

It’s the kind of guys who move away from home but keep going back to their mothers whenever they need laundry done.

Yeah, I kind of agree. Toxic masculinity is a thing, but it doesn’t mean all masculinity is automatically toxic.

Then again, usually when I’m hanging out with guys and the testosterone level runs a bit high, someone will crack a joke about it and we’ll laugh at ourselves.

I think having a fragile ego and not being able to joke about yourself and/or your masculinity probably does make it on in the toxic list.

When we have female friends in common and suddenly it turns out they want to fuck her and they assume I’m only hanging out with her because I want to as well.

I have never had any men brag to me about their sexual encounters; generally the people I end up hanging out with don’t make sexist comments about women in public or anything like that. But this bullshit I’ve experienced on numerous occasions.

I guess it’s not really a “toxic trait” as much as “being toxic as fuck”.

Well, men do it better

This is why I think weaponized incompetence is a better term than willful incompetence.

I don’t think it’s even always intentional, conscious, or willful. It’s just, well, “not giving a fuck”, and getting away with it because women are always around to deal with their shit.

Ugh.

If you consciously change your behaviour once there’s no women around… Yeah, chances are you won’t see me again unless I’m absolutely forced to.

It’s like some people think they’re contractually obliged to make a sexist joke or some shit. Thankfully I don’t meet these people often.