arcturus

tumblr isn’t dead??

communism is when…

people use adblockers, apparently

that’s not the point; the point is to not have a single group dominate the site and to make it easier to avoid bad actors (bigots + fascists, because there’s a lot of that online) by just blocking the instance they live on

the “one single account” thing is a bonus, but definitely not the main reason for federation

tbf, that’s just microblogging in a nutshell

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but like, why did it take him tanking Twitter for many to realize that he’s just a manbaby with a diamond-encrusted platinum pacifier

like it’s really weird that it wasn’t clear when he called that one guy who saved those kids in that cave a pedophile because the guy told Musk that his invention wouldn’t be useful for the rescue effort; like people didn’t see how shitty he was after he said that

tbf, grimes is not better

would expect both of them to be less like this if that were the case

WE as humans are the problem.

you can count the owners of the entities that produce the most greenhouse gases within 3 digits; it’s not “everybody”

although it’s very common for the earlier generation to blame the later generation for the world sucking (or what they percieve as “sucking”), in this case it doesn’t work because not every boomer and gen-x-er is a CEO or past CEO

like they’re wrong to blame the later generations for this, but that’s because it’s not mainly a generational thing

but the thing about voting is that basically every politician is either:

1. In the pocket of one or more corporations
2. Literally part of a corporation (or outright owns one)
3. A politician at who doesn’t have as much power as the former two or is in the pocket of one of them

so we could vote for John StopClimateChange, and then find out that every single thing that Mr. StopClimateChange said about his crusade to stopping climate change was not at all true or was so utterly miniscule in the long run as to be meaningless

then what?

and guess who lobbies a ridiculous amount to either keep the rules the same or bias it further towards their interests

yep, corporations once again

why is this man like this

I did not know minecoins were a thing

but in any case, I’m not saying that they’re making a good decision, just that I don’t see the point of reddit gold

yeah, like OP isn’t realizing that they’re going to just make another Twitter

if you have it that there are no rules against shittiness and bigotry, then the worst kinds of people will decide to hang around and will drive off everyone else; you’ll have a nazi bar

on one hand, reddit gold is useless and a waste of money imo

other hand, they just keep going for making the most controversial decisions with zero thought lmao

then the question is why the hell did you make an account on an instance that doesn’t want to interact with NSFW content (presumably it’s in their rules) when you want to interact with NSFW content; like I don’t see why you’d do that if you knew the rules beforehand

this is not going to work like you want it; check out the “nazi bar” example

lmao

has it already been 12 years?!

he absolutely would find friends in law enforcement; people like them often flock to jobs that allow you to exert authority by force

probably could have said the same about Google and XMMP, but look what happened

corporations exist to make money, and this includes eliminating or incorporating anything that could get in their way or make money

the fact that the Fediverse is starting to get a bit more popular is going to convince them to get in on it (and then eventually try to control as much of the market as possible) or make it irrelevant so the average person is funneled to them again