What’s wrong with Discourse? I ran a server during college for a couple of buddies and it was totally owned and operated by us, no corpos or anything. It’s just like phpbb or any other forum software AFAIK.

Proof the system works right here.

I can understand this perspective: wanting to spread the gospel of federation, etc.

But I’m starting to come around to the realization that the growth mindset is rotten. It’s what leads to these big centralized/unified platforms that concede on their core in order to reach a wider audience.

I can’t blame corpos for conceding away all identity, because engagement is how they make money, but what’s our excuse?

These aren’t refugees. They’re free to make a lemmy or masto or whatever account any time they want. We don’t have a problem with most of the people. It’s the platform, and all the fucking out and proud racists who are on it.

My grandma who owned a diner used to say the same thing, but about cops

A flawed democracy is still better than no democracy

It’s not over yet, friend. There are still things worth fighting for, and still so, so much more we could lose. Don’t give up hope.

I mean technically, but it’s not like it’s trying to be subtle about it. From the page:

I believe that Facebook represents one of the gravest threats to democracies around the world […]

The point is to discourage instances from federating with threads.

Yeah…

Not aware of any of these, which is nice, but iddqd caught my eye since that’s a Doom reference! Overall I always thought the Doom community was pretty positive (at least going by Doomworld forums, and various Doom streamers, as I remember them). I thought surely it must be some misunderstanding! Oh maybe they didn’t reply quickly enough to take down some drive-by hate speech, but that was it.

Anyway, holy shit, do not go to that lemmy instance. It’s rotten to the core. I’m going to go take a shower and play through Episode 1 to cleanse myself now.

Nah, your post is super charming

Who tf is downvoting every comment in this thread? lol it’s hilarious. I can’t imagine the motivation

My cat smells my coffee and then recoils in disgust and sneers at it every morning. I’m not sure how much she hates it if she keeps smelling it every day. Maybe it’s part of her morning ritual now.

I like your crockery. That little egg holder is giving me some nostalge for sure. Actually just everything here feels welcoming.

I love a tortie

But… why?

Just kidding, I get it. It’s definitely more approachable, and can be more intuitive, for sure. I just loved the whole terminal aesthetic from the first time I saw it, so that’s the hammer I hit every nail with.

I think that’s one of the main differences between users, though we get distracted talking about “productivity” or “control” or what-have-you, when it’s mostly just a matter of taste, deep down.

I’ve been Gentoo curious for a while, but you just put me over the edge. That sounds so trivial, but also cool as fuck

I got my first real start on linux on Mint, too! Really fond memories of using it with the Cinnamon DE.

What should they be using, #!/usr/bin/env windows?

At least there’s a point to talking (and complaining) about Linux, because we can actually contribute to its development.

Agreed. I’ve been using it for years now, and it just feels like what a launcher should be. I’m surprised it’s not been adopted as the default, or even an available mode, since it’s so intuitive.