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Well, most of us know how to deal with all of those, and the vast majority of them haven’t been an issue for the average user for, like, decades now. No one’s fucking with compatubility mode post, like, 2004.

Meanwhile, most of the help you get when trying to solve issues on Linux are command line commands that are not explained by the helper and which we have no idea what they actually do.

The fight I had just to get my printer to work. The fight I’m still having to get my audio interface to work consistently.

“Democrats didn’t believe that the genocidal regime they sent bombs to would use those bombs to commit genocide.”

This is just his left hand paying his right so he can claim Twitter’s value is comparable to what he initally paid for it. He’s getting fixated on people talking about his losses again, and is getting ready to call someone a pedo on main again.

Techbros killed me, Mal.

It’s probably not cheaper than just shooting orphans for sport.

Gotta go further south this time. Warching Mar-a-Lago burn will be fun.

No, it has been. There hss just been disagreement on who is considered “the people”.

You could spin one up this evening if you wanted. Or go use catodon.social.

That’s not the point. The point is, there are reasons Mastodon is being rejected, just like there are reasons you seemingly cannot pay people to use a Misskey-based or Hubzilla-based website.

It’s not where the people are going, and the public or semi-public figures are going to follow the people.

So, think through how this looks in the long run. Hell, just think about what this prioritizes.

You have five communities covering the same topic. There’s, what? 500? 1000? 2000 people active in them? Enough that there is a steady stream of posts and comments in all of them. They’re all housed on separate websites, and those websites maybe have different goals and different rules. So, people start lumping them together in aggregate feeds.

What does that look like? In practice, how do users treat this?

They treat it as if they’re all one community. As if they’re all in one place. All managed by one cohesive set of rules (or, realistically, most people treat all spaces as if none of them have rules, and then put up a stink when they’re met with the consequences of this).

Then, they start expecting to not see duplicates. So, which community’s posts do they see when there are multiples? Oh, that’s easy: all of them! They will start expecting comments to be merged. So, now you have people treating all of the communities not only as if they’re interchangeable, but as if they’re all one.

This is a backdoor to not just homogenization, but to quiet hostile takeovers of smaller communities by larger ones. All because users are too damn entitled to just pick one that most closely meets their needs and contribute to it.

We don’t need meta-communities. We need people to get over their fucking FOMO.

Why switch to Mastodon when there is Misskey?

Why use Misskey when there is Hubzilla?

Trump may not be aware of P2025. Not because he hasn’t been told, repeatedly, about it, but because he has the awareness of a pile of sterilized garbage.

They call it a ‘Boston Left’ for a reason.

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Holy shit, it’s going gold!

There is no “here” here. They’re being removed on some websites, and not on others.

Also from that post.

There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc.

There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation.

There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist.

Aww, who’s the specialist little boy in the government? Who is? Who is?

I like the theory that Tesla had a long term roadmap before Elon scooped it up, and that he wasn’t able to do too much to disrupt that in the early years because he was focused on LARPing as Tony Stark on the Internet, and the team that developed around him to insulate the company from him were reasonably good at their jobs. But even the best can only hold back so few bad ideas while keeping up the illusion, and the result has been gradually diminishing amount of ass.

Until that roadmap ran out, and/or Elon stopped being distracted, resulting in them designing and building the Elon.

Trump cannot commit a coup, because he is already the head of state. Military coups occur when military generals step in to illegally claim the abilities of the head of state (or government) from someone else who had them legally.

Pick a smaller, focused website and focus on Local. Then you can ignore what’s going on elsewhere.

Lemmy isn’t a community, it’s a technology. And ActivityPub is madw with the goal of letting anyone and everyone use it and participate. Just like HTTP. Griping because “the wrong kind of people are showing up” is the kind of thing the wrong kind of people do.

You don’t get to build your gate in the public square.