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I’ve been using Linux half my life, I have my own Email server, I avoid centralized social media and I hate Outlook with a passion.
I have two active accounts there.
Not ideologically pure.
I’ve been using Linux half my life, I have my own Email server, I avoid centralized social media and I hate Outlook with a passion.
I have two active accounts there.
If I recall correctly it just doesn’t scale well, and starts performing poorly as the user count goes up.
Personally I prefer Mastodon. In the end there’s only three dimensions: Security, performance, and personal preference.
I’m happy with how Mastodon is being run. Move fast and break things kan kiss my ass. Move slowly and don’t suck.
It takes time to build friendships. If you meet people for an activity that’s a start, but if you don’t feel like any of them are friend material (or they’re too busy) you need to branch out. Try finding a larger/different group that does that activity, or better yet, try out something else.
Volunteering tends to be a great starting point.
Friendships often start with a leap of faith of sorts - you hang out in a given context, and at some point somebody takes the next step (wanna grab a beer/grab lunch/come for dinner/go to the game/whatever)
You kind of do things that are a bit ahead of your current level of friendship, and then if it works out you’ve managed to upgrade.
Progressive tax is normal in most functional countries, it’s not rocket science.
Basically you define X as a base sum that needs to be controlled for inflation. Minimum wage can be 2X, whereas 100% taxation might be reached at an income of 300X. In this scenario, nobody could earn more than 150 times minimum wage, and manipulating the calculation of X to make the rich richer would also benefit everyone else.
A bigger challenge is that billionaire scum tend not to have income, only loans, so they don’t pay tax at all. But that’s also easily fixed if there’s political will.
When you play it louder the silences hit so much harder. What an experience.
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King.
It’s just exploding with creativity and craftsmanship throughout the album. The opening tune (21st Century Schizoid Man) was unlike anything anyone had ever heard at the time it was released, and there’s honestly still not much like it out there. And the transition to Moonchild after it is equally mind-blowing just for the contrast alone. The title track remains one of the most incredible things I’ve heard.
Zappa also has a lot of good candidates for this list. I’m soft for Freak Out, where the madness started, but some might argue something like Joe’s Garage is a better example.
Shoes. You don’t end up saving money and it’s not worth the pain. I tried for years back when I couldn’t afford a thing and concluded that there’s simply no such thing as cheap good shoes.
But at the receiving end you’ll have a talented backend developer who has created something impressive, and who instead of being recognised and motivated for her work just receives a bunch of shit about the UX being awful. Which is not great either.
It’s a tricky thing to get right.
Open source culture remains the biggest problem with open source software, sadly.
I think Hank Williams III with the Grand Ole Opry Ain’t so Grand deserves a shout-out. Basically a song about how the institution that chewed up and then expelled his grandfather can eat shit.
Unlimited supply!
Obviously they won’t give too much of a shit and they’re not going to send any mail, they’ll just block the server like they would anyway. They are, however, going to be annoyed to be treated as insignificant nobodies. So all in all not a bad idea.
Which is a radical act to fight tech billionaires like Zuckerberg and Musk. Who have both been reasonably accused of enabling some incredibly awful stuff.
Contributing to the fediverse is probably not the most efficient way to fight for human rights and against billionaires and fascists, but it certainly makes some sort of tiny contribution. So I wouldn’t call it pointless. :)
In that order, I assume.
What might have stuck with me the most from Kant is the simple principle of treating people as ends, not as means.
Partly because when reading it I didn’t immediately understand the meaning of “ends” in this context, so I had to think about it for a while in order to just understand what was going on. Still though, I think it’s a valid principle, and one that everyone should strive to live by.
Fair point - but I think that by 2022 it was already fine where I was. I lived in a very touristic city at the time, so the period after I gained freedom of movement before the tourists returned was actually pretty nice as for once it felt like the city belonged to those who lived there.
I also very much felt during the pandemic that I was wasting one of the best years of my life. Still not complaining though - rather that than one of my more formative years.
In my experience the problem is not really all that age related at all, it’s just that you’re increasingly aware that you have to find your own meaning in life and that your choices now will directly affect everything that follows.
Age 25 I didn’t feel like anything really mattered, I had time to fuck up. Now it feels like I have ten years to find something I consider worthwhile or I’ll in all likelihood be permanently fucked.
I’m currently 30, and am increasingly confident that 28 was the high point.
This is key. Also try to figure out which relevant hashtags are being used, and follow and use them.
Finding relevant groups can also be an idea. Tag and follow for example @scifi@a.gup.pe
, or even consider if it’s worth sharing your post on Lemmy (by tagging for example @sciencefiction@lemmy.world
).
Anything can be a group in a.gup.pe, by changing what’s been the @s. When you search for a group in Mastodon you’ll see how many followers it has. A more integrated group functionality will probably be implemented in Mastodon in the future, but for now that’s what we’ve got. :)
Yeah, the irony is not lost on me!
Early on in the life of software I think a faster pace of development makes sense, when the software is less complex and there are fewer affected users. I think most Piefed users accept that they are very much using software that is still in active development.
Mastodon, on the other hand, is used by people who consider it to already be mature. A large number of people and organizations depend on it. Personally I trust it with the only actively maintained social media account I have in my real name. Moving too fast and making mistakes could have pretty fatal consequences there.
There are features I would like to see implemented as well - I think proper quote posts will be nothing but a huge improvement - but I appreciate that the developers are taking their sweet time making sure to get it right. And if Piefed reaches a million active users I expect its developer(s) to do the same.