xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

The reason why I love old tech is not because it's "old" or "nostalgia". It's because it made you feel like you had power. And it was super cool.

Look at this picture, look at the TV and the deck and everything. Don't tell me it doesn't look like a fucking space ship. Don't you want to feel like you are at a space ship at home? You can not only watch movies or play music, but you can control every little aspect of it. You were in control, you had the power.

We can only change this if we get rid of the toxic "fediblock" culture around fedi and make it as painless as possible for users to migrate away their posts and media from their instance to another.

The first is very unlikely to happen. Turns out, making a thousand more centralized servers (which is the closer model to the #fediverse we have today) just produces a thousand people who will most likely just act as feudal lords than disinterested janitors who's just there to clean away universally-agreed upon definitions of junk. Why just be a boring moderator who does a thankless task of keeping the instance usable when you can get that dopamine instigating a smear campaign against someone you don't like by intentionally taking their words out of context or provoking them to do their worst for everyone to see (instead of you know, just leaving them alone)?

The second though, is something in the works right now for #ActivityPub. #Firefish based software like #Iceshrimp, as well as the latest #Misskey fork #Sharkey allow you to import your posts from other fediverse servers, though it shouldn't be considered 100% ready for everyone's usage every like 5 seconds just yet. It has its own problems right now I heard, like no way for direct messages to get migrated, or each old post imported now having to be refederated to many instances.

#fediversemeta #fediblockmeta

RE: https://mastodon.nu/users/svenska_satanister/statuses/111844819260939982

@ItsSkyDragonz @d0c40r0 It is YOUR responsibility to take care of her kid. Not hers.

This shit is so stupid I fucking hate it. Its all a scheme to push internet ID and other shit.

"I mean, I NEVER could have imagined that letting my child get on snapchat, instagram, facebook, and twitter??? all unsupervised would lead to people wanting to exploit her!"
This is the IRL equivealent of letting your child roam around the slums unsupervised and blaming the mayor when she got raped or killed.
Shame what happened to the kids, but fucking terrible parents trying to push blame

never forget how nintendo's response to console modders was to hire private investigators to stalk them
https://torrentfreak.com/nintendo-conducted-invasive-surveillance-operation-against-homebrew-hacker-201223/

If you want to know how fucking garbage Twitter.com is in 2024, some guy I loosely follow got banhammered for having a normal discussion.

If anything IMO this is the thing that will boost fedi, as long as people are aware the alternatives exist.

https://virtuallyfun.com/2024/02/01/apparently-talking-about-dos-extenders-is-too-hot-for-twitter-aka-phar-lap-386/

This new lens is phenomenal. #moon #photography #astrophotography

Cheap way to reduce drafts and energy usage in a home: insulating gaskets for your outlets. 18 to 20 cents each in bulk. Invisible once you install the wall plate. #insulation #diy #weatherization

Me when I see an unattended e waste pile of old computers

Our great grandchildren doing history research and reading cringey social justice declarations justifying racism against white people:

3D politics