Erikatharsis

In other news, water is wet, as anyone detained at Guantanamo Bay can readily attest

It’s just a reference to some weeb shit from 2002

I have a question:

Well, on Reddit, with subreddits, you can go inside with your shoes on, right? Then, what if you stepped on dog poop out on the street, and you went to a subreddit without realizing it… If the Redditor father and mother and eldest son and eldest daughter all stepped on poop and went to a subreddit without realizing it…

Honestly, I feel like Mastodon is kinda never going to be like Twitter, even if its user count were to grow by two orders of magnitude. There are several reasons why, as the other replies point out, but the most important (IMO) is that Mastodon is just not a profit-driven platform. And if Mastodon is not a profit-driven platform, it is not designed to maximize user engagement. And if it is not designed to maximize user engagement, it is not designed to encourage toxic behavior.

Déjà vu, have I been in this place before?

But Venezuela, you need to understand that there is no good place to put the V in the acronym, wait for some other countries to join first

The absolute absurdity of a news article on nefarious data collection requiring that I enable JS to read it, just so that it can load a ridiculous number of trackers.

What Erik Moeller is trying to say is that posting to a Twitter alternative owned by rich people is doing free work for said rich people.

BASED

I’ve heard that in Sweden there’s a group supporting free public transport called Planka.nu, which encourages fare dodging and operates an insurance fund for paying penalty fares.

• The right to solidarity, i.e. all should be allowed to partake in solidary action during a strike.
• The right of initiative and right to recall.
• The right to free software, or freedom from proprietary software.
• The right to a third place, i.e. ready access to physical spaces that allow for socializing with strangers.
• Freedom from eviction (mainly wrt rent strikes and squatting.)
• The right to democratic education.
• The right to cross borders.
• The right to be forgotten.
• The right to purpose, or freedom from meaningless labor. This includes the right to an employee fund.

And there are of course other things. I just think that under the world’s current paradigm, these, at least individually, seem relatively attainable without a literal revolution.

My friend, I’m planning on switching to desktop Linux, and you sincerely expect me to make rational, informed decisions? /j

/srs It’s because I’m an idiot, Jim.

Oracle are the VirtualBox people, right? I just installed that program today to try desktop Linux for the first time. I’m inferring from the comments under this post that Oracle apparently has some sort of negative reputation in the Linux community…? Frankly, I feel like a real troy-returning-with-pizza.jpeg right now.

That’s the more common variant, but “embrace, extend, exterminate” is also used.

Honestly, I don’t see why Threads couldn’t be intended to destroy both Twitter foremost, and also the fediverse before it’s big enough to pose any real threat: Mastodon has some two million monthly active users right now, which is tiny compared to Twitter/Threads, yes, but it’s also not nothing, especially for what Mastodon is and how quickly it managed to reach that level of usage.

So I don’t doubt that Threads has ill intentions for both the underdog and overdog. I just don’t think that the fediverse can be killed that easily.

Are people really saying “the fediverse is doomed”?

To be frank, I still don’t get it, but I also hardly qualify as a human to begin with.

I get the others, but why that last one?

Wow, I had no idea! That’s awesome.

“Irwin, what is the plural of ox?”

— “Oxen! The farmer used his oxen!”

“Brian, what is the plural of box?”

— “Boxen. I bought two boxen of donuts.”

“Irwin, what is the plural of goose?”

— “Geese! I saw a flock of geese!”

“Brian, what is the plural of moose?”

— “MOOSEN!”