Tbh I think you can one time drop a very friendly but more direct: “hey have you guys thought about posting your stuff in a music community on Lemmy? It’s like reddit but smaller and with a very engaged audience. I think they’d dig you there!” Or something to that effect. Just don’t be a dick about it or spam them.

A lot of them don’t know about or don’t understand the fediverse. We need to be more proactive in asking this of the artists we love. I’ll try to be better about doing my part to mention the fediverse to artists in my sphere, an especially good fit given the DIY roots of the punk/hardcore lineage of much of it.

Absolutely, TT is scary and the take-over has been insanely obvious. Despite this people are still regularly making real content and connections on TT. Tiktok, the company and app themselves, are vile and disgusting, but Tiktok, the community, is still largely very decent, imo.

edit: misunderstood comment, thought it was replying to a later comment in the thread, sorry

Honestly Marketplace is the best argument for FB today. How it has usurped Craigslist I don’t understand, maybe because it’s easier to navigate, but you’re right that it is the defacto modern market.

I don’t use it so I forget about it, but this is a good counterpoint.

Tbh, I know this will be a hot take, but I do think Tiktok is a vastly better network. Tumblr too. These are still actual social media platforms.

Yes, they’re deeply algorithm-based, yes they’re for-profit, capitalist networks still, but I think they are miles better than FB/Insta or Twitter/X. Have you looked at somebody’s Facebook? 90%+ of posts are corporate, political, special interest. Almost nobody actually posts anything, they just reshare an endless stream of garbage content entirely divorced from the human experience.

At least Tiktok, despite its many legitimate problems and criticisms, is still largely a human-driven platform. It’s still a place where people are making, sharing, and consuming real human posts in the interest of connection.

Tiktok is still social media. I genuinely don’t think FB or X have been social media in many many years.

It remains insane to me that it’s so hard for so many to just, not use them. Truly, your life is not being enriched by twitter or Facebook. You can delete your account and I promise you won’t find yourself missing them.

Because he told the worst people in the country that he would hurt the people they don’t like.

Honestly that’s it, that the whole thing. There’s nothing deeper than that.

Trump told racists, bigots, evil people that he was going to hurt their enemies, so they voted for him.

I don’t think people think they’re being “clever” when they reference that quote

Not something that has ever come up for me, personally. So I don’t have an answer for that one I guess, if that’s something that’s important to you.

Maybe I’m stupid or something, but I’ve always found Discord complicated as hell to use for anything whereas Vent is simple af

Honestly, what was wrong with Ventrillo for voice and literally any forum software for everything else?

I got that, your story-telling was fine, no worries. I’ll admit, I was sort of just making a non-sequitur based on your aside in my commentary there. ✌

Although I did also mean to suggest that if they’re comfortable with this kind of oversight you can’t know what other oversights they’re comfortable with, and thus you really should get checked for infection.

That you were lucky in the temperament of your neighbor’s dog doesn’t change the reality that having a pet that can and does regularly escape enclosure is bad pet ownership. You could have just have likely lost that draw and ended up with a problematic animal that wasn’t properly secured, but thankfully you didn’t. It sounds like the shepherd is a great animal; my condemnation was not direct at all towards the dog, just the dog owner.

The shepherd can jump the fence if he wants

Sounds like bad dog ownership overall tbh, and definitely the kind of wound worth checking out for possible infection

There’s more than one within 15 minutes of where I live, and the same was true when I lived in the OBX. They aren’t always as obvious as the Hampton Inns/Marriotts/Hiltons of the world, but they exist if you’re willing to put in the work looking and willing to make occasional compromises in location or amenities

Independent hotels and inns might be the move

Spotify claims to offer lossless quality on much of their catalog; is this claim false or is there something more I’m missing here?

“I’ve been buying all my oranges from the orange store for 35 years.”

“Boy you don’t eat turkey, do you?”

???

“I hear yoasif is always trying to fuck the neighbor’s dog.”

“No, that’s stupid, of course I’m not.”

“Oh so you’re acknowledging it? Guess that means we should take the claim seriously!”

🙄

Ngl, I haven’t read the article, I’m not defending or talking about Mozilla. But holy shit was that stupid logic.