Yea, fuck people and their layers interpersonal ulterior self-predatory bullshit, I can stare at spiders and ants… or most other animals for hours 🤓
It wasn’t that bad, gold just signals that the comment is good (intensity), but some of the other awards made explicit the way in which it is good (hue/flavour) e.g. funny, informative, creative, sarcastic…I actually liked the award system (even if I always was a bit suspicious of who was giving them and what their intentions were)
Reddit answers to shareholders and a board of directors. Each fediverse instance is run by its owner and negotiates with other instances to federate.
If some bigshot wants to own reddit or rule it like a totalitarian asshole, he can buy it and vandalize it if he wants to. If some bigshot wants to own the fediverse, good luck buying the thousands of instances that exist and they still wouldn’t get us, because we’d move to or create new instances.
it’s elaborate camo 😃 you can’t hit them if you fall off your seat laughing. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qklvh5Cp_Bs&pp=ygUaZnVubmllc3Qgam9rZSBpbiB0aGUgd29ybGQ%3D
Major reason not to buy ebooks from amazon: you can’t lend, give, exchange, sell them and you may lose all of them if you anger the right people. They are not yours, you are not buying them, you merely paid for conditioned access to them.
I’m justs enjoying what we have for a fleeting summer of joy, before zuck, gptbot floods and federation fracturing inevitably ruin everything again :/
I think you need to graph-traverse the “Instances” link at the bottom of the page for all communities to map it all. I’m actually working on this as we speak.
You people are another reason bibi is so brazen in killing innocent Palestinians, because he knows that it will help bring back his ally trump.