There was some theorycrafting from some of the react devs on twitter that they were striking mastodon from twitter on purpose to eliminate people becoming aware of it.
I've seen a lot of great stuff on Mastodon but when it starts to become overwhelmingly political, I dip out. Problem is that you have to follow an abrasive amount of random people to start seeing anything across their fediverse. Shit in the beginning, awesome/hits the mark at least in terms of twitter replacement - after you follow enough people.
Commenting my $0.02
How fucking bullshit is this. I looked into the report and it's a report from Stanford. It's the same loli crap you see on 4chan and even twitter sometimes.
I went and deactivated my twitter accounts today. I got Lemmy and when I do my own servers via my own app, I'll enjoy a twitter alternative again.
Edit: Im saying this because my mind went to action not bitching. I think the X rebrand is like a sign of the times and the official "okay twitters dead" moment.
I should write a survival guide to Linux. Its okay to have a differing opinion man. My advice is just don't go seeking out the hornets nest and know when to read the room.
I saw some garbage earlier today that was borderline racist ironically from a left POV and I just left it alone.
Gotta know when to hold 'em and know when to fold 'em. The beauty of the fediverse is that everyone gets a total democracy in bans, where they'll sign up, etc and its a two way street.
Sigh. Whoever they have working in their DRM department has been an asshole for a long time now.
This is what the third or fourth - minimum - thing like this they've tried to pass in a few years? I actually like Google as a product family but every time they do this it hits me right in the "maybe I should reconsider" department. Its also usually met with a hard resounding no from everyone. Maybe its that they have a task force that is paid well to protect their ad interests and recover some sort of deficit they see in their ad product.
I donate to the EFF to fight things like this at a professional level...also good to point out though that its not just google's fault. If they build a moat for businesses and everyone installs one, that is everyone's fault.
What if I told you reddits antiwork was basically a glimpse of everything we're seeing on far left Lemmy. Lemmy just doesn't have a honeymoon stage for it.
I'm certainly willing to hear that and entertain the prospect but I'd consider it banter otherwise. Tate has a documented pyramid scheme that incentivizes young people to sell some product and sign up that he profits from.
As far as the classic ideals of what a man is and Tate pushing that, my point was that I think there is a demographic of young men 13-30 that hear his messaging and use it as a place of rationalizing far right leaning conservative views. I'd even go as far as it's young impressionable men that are hearing it maybe during their college days - that would otherwise be swing voters.
I got a buddy that works in construction for example that loves Tate but votes blue. However a lot of views Tate has align with Trump or DeSantis campaign points. If you want to correlate that with Russia given Trump's relationship with Putin, I'd buy that.
Maybe. I feel like I like scrolling lemmy a lot more and I get that old reddit vibe of "lets go scrolling" pretty often. I'm excited to chat about whatever on here.
And maybe some configs. Letsencrypt is great but SSL is still kinda a hastle
Edit: oh and if Lemmy has any sort of like unique IDs for usernames at a given domain. Could be something on the backend that keeps a unique I'd for each user encountered in the event a user migrates between servers. Mastodon notifies me if someone migrates.
I got a "who asked" amongst more productive banter this morning and I actually laughed and said "thank god, people can talk without a filter".
I'm okay with some stuff being toxic. Reddits moderation rules were so restricting that you couldn't have a genuine conversation or sometimes just post something that was clearly originally intended to be posted to a sub; moderation was too tight.
Freedom of speech shouldn't be inconvenienced by a fedora wearing subreddit mod. And if one Lemmy instance does, there's others you can enjoy!
the memes on Lemmy are so good that I feel like I haven't seen good relevant simple memes in like a decade.