artaxadepressedhorse @ artaxadepressedhorse @lemmyngs.social

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I'll never understand the FOSS mentality of "There's already a quality project out there with active development and most of the user-share. Perfect, so I'll utilize my off-time to create my own inferior competitor and fragment the users instead of contribute to the existing one".

I mean, I get it if the existing project maintainers start acting with shady interests - the threat of the fork can be a powerful tool. But it seems like many of these alt projects do it right out of the gate. Meanwhile, it took linux desktop how long to get a functional wifi driver out of the box??

Can't let fear control you

I first discovered /b/ in '09 so I can't attest to anything prior, but it always met my expectations of what a free as in freedom social space would be like. It won't be the idealistic pretty picture most people wish it was. It will be a mirror reflection of life and humanity. The good the bad the ugly no more no less. Don't like what you see in the mirror? Take it up with the big man upstairs I guess.

Gotta learn to extract the good from the bad. It's always worked that way.

Typical conservative strategy:

• Public thing exists
• Become a lead weight in government so public thing gets underfunded and cannot adapt to market changes.
• Public thing no longer meets expectations.
• "See? It should be privatized and you won't have this issue"
• Privatize thing. A few people make a crap load of money in the transition. Thing starts out acceptable for the first few years.
• "Oh no, capitalism uses an infinite growth ponzi model. How do we increase shareholder value this year?"
• Private thing gets underfunded and consumers get manipulated and abused.

Are we winning yet?

I see, taking notes from their overweight neighbors across the pond, they've chosen the way of teh hambruger

We've entered the Twilight zone. Where Ben Shapiro and Gavin Newsom are on the same side of a debate, and they're fighting against Tucker Carlson and the unions.

Edit: piped link

Pay and support small indie labels/studios, pirate or straight up boycott the big players. Every dollar that goes to them helps fund the war on free (as in freedom) exchange of information

Might help, but when I first tried signing up a few months back I had the same issue, it was bc the username I wanted was too many characters and a db error was just getting swallowed and no message came back telling me it's too long.

The reason I even know this is bc I'm slightly insane and decided to spin up my own lemmy instance just so I could debug it. I never submitted an issue on GitHub for it, because on top of being insane, I'm also incredibly lazy

Course you will. That's what they already anticipated.

It's a prisoner's dilemma thing. People have had ample time and opportunity to move to mastodon, but as you say Twitter is still where the bulk of eyeballs are, but that only remains true if everyone's too afraid to leave it.

"Prisencolinensinainciusol", but with vocal pitch-shifting applied for a modern twist.

Why exactly are we arguing? If you wanna use Facebook and Reddit, go right ahead I'm not standing in your way, but I'll not be a part of it. Reddit was like 60% crap to me already and now it's 100% crap. If Lemmy somehow turns crap I'll just go touch grass more..

I never said the majority of people in the world are all that wise.. p sure the only reason we've gotten where we are, the only reason we have anything nice we have, is by a rare few in the population questioning the aimless groupthink momentum.

Look at all the garbage music celebrities that 80% of people worship, and how that shapes what's played on the radio, at the gym, the grocery store. This seems to just be human nature. Most people are just going to follow orders dictated by pop culture. Is that who you want to be?

Is Facebook really fine though? All the interesting ppl I knew stopped using it a long time ago. People just use it to message a few specific ppl they know IRL and trade shit on FB marketplace, or spam pictures of their baby nobody wants to see, but everyone knows and acknowledges how garbage it has become.

Perhaps PCs will become obsolete. Even programming languages.

The most useful skill set for Gen-whatevers of the future will be winning an hours long debate with their personal AI on why it should get out of its digital bed and be productive today.

Only a problem if you're running executables like cracked games, right? Bc of teh virii?

I would think if you're sticking to books, music, and movies, it wouldn't matter? Unless you're looking for questionable porn I guess, in which case you may come across more than you bargained for?

TPB has always treated me p well shrugs

Beehaw's Explanation

Sounds like they want a safe space, and federating with more lax servers makes it hard to do that, so they've essentially blocked everyone coming from lemmy.world

And it borks the YouTube shortcut keys, but I still love it. Incredibly useful when using a laptop/track pad.

I feel conflicted about fragmentation;

On the one side, pooling resources into one centralized community can be really good for finding and sharing helpful information.

On the other side, groupthink and conflict. Not sure I need to elaborate, we've all experienced it and we've all been guilty of it.