wanderingmagus @ wanderingmagus @lemm.ee

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I thought there was a joint resolution that tactical nukes in Ukraine would be the trigger for Article 5.

You should see commercial radar systems operating in choppy water. Millions of yellow dots that appear and disappear. Aliens? No, literally just returns from waves. But if you turn the sensitivity down too far, now you can't see jet skis and sailboats.

As long as we don't let ourselves get complacent again this time. I'm not sure what I'd do if even the Fediverse eventually goes the same way.

I sure hope you're right. Decentralization won't solve all the issues of course, and will cause its own problems, but it will hopefully be at least a little better the the chain of walled gardens and outrage- and clickbait-driven cesspool that the internet is right now.

Nice. It'd be hilarious if they replaced all references to reddit with Lemmy from now on.

Expected.

Exactly. When are we going to get blank stares when we mention Reddit? That's the moment I'm looking forward to the most.

(In case you actually don't know, Digg was a precursor to Reddit, which did basically the same mistakes and got itself replaced by Reddit and forgotten way back in the MySpace era)

When will we see a MySpace or Digg moment, or Yahoo moment for Reddit? When will mentioning Reddit get you an eyeroll and an "Okay, millenial" response from Gen Alpha?

So what's the solution to blow this joint and start a new paradigm? Television killed radio. Blogs and streaming killed television. Current social media killed blogs. If the fediverse isn't the solution, then what's going to kill and replace current 2010s era social media? And don't say short form video, because that was cool for maybe a decade before the big corpos started pushing it and it was no longer cool.

Seems to be the plan for an increasing number of social media companies. As far as Lemmy is concerned, if it and other related services get killed, that just drives us underground to the darknet and the old tried and true chat services still being used there. As the old saying goes, can't stop the signal, and every empire falls to ruin eventually. We'll see how long it takes for Rome to crumble this time.

Want this the case when Reddit was tiny and Digg was huge too?

Digg and MySpace were behemoths once too. So was Yahoo.

Why can't your browser lie and say "yes of course I'm displaying everything my fingers definitely aren't crossed behind my back"?

Based and actual freedom pilled

@remindme@mstdn.social 11 months

Linux + Firefox + noscript + unlock origin + VPN + FOSS everything + metal wallet = checkmate corpos?

I've successfully gotten a single coworker to join Lemmy. Most of the others barely even know what Reddit is. My family also very rarely uses social media other than YouTube, and there simply is not enough content on PeerTube for them to be convinced to switch.

"Democrats" is an amazingly broad term that mostly encompasses "almost anything that isn't Republicans". It isn't so much a unified monolith as an alliance of often polar opposite interests banding together only because the GOP is the only real alternative. Were the GOP to disappear tomorrow, I guarantee the Democratic party would almost instantly split into dozens of smaller parties, or possibly into two again. Compared to most of Europe, an American "Democrat" is a centrist or even a right wing neoliberal. People like Bernie Sanders, who is viewed as a far-left outright communist in America, would barely count as center left in most of Western Europe.

Just goes to show that for all they claim to love the military, the GOP is emphatically not backing servicemembers. Not during service, and not after they separate or retire either, judging by how they keep cutting veterans benefits.

This honestly. Lots and lots of magazines in a basket on the wall.