I go by the same username on world and frozeninferno.
Politically non-binary
From my perspective, the Fediverse is full of people who think Biden is the greatest president ever, that we should stay locked down in our houses for the rest of our lives, that everything should be free or provided by the government, and that if you disagree with anyone on anything, you’re automatically a Trump supporter and a Nazi. (I don’t like Trump or his cult, btw.)
I do have a PC with Linux, but I can see where you’re coming from. Unfortunately, Linux isn’t for everybody.
Ice Cubes, Mammoth, and Mona aren’t on this list either. Ice Cubes is the app that got me to actually use Mastodon regularly.
And it’s definitely not helping that the biggest Mastodon instance for artists is pretending to be progressive while being hostile to the LGBT community. Mastodon has a chance to snatch up artists who are pissed off about Twitter, and of course they’re going to check out mastodon.art not knowing about their bullshit.
I’m not sure what the solution to that should be, however. Take down mastodon.art? I’ve been telling people to avoid that instance, but non-techie people don’t understand that the Mastodon developers don’t own it.
Why am I not surprised? I wish we’d just pick one and stick with it.
In the US states that still do this nonsense, it’s 8 months on daylight saving time (summer time), and just four months on so-called “standard time.” We should just stay on summer time all year at this point.
If it’s any consolation, the owner of Squabbles, the site a ton of people praised during the Great Rexxit because Lemmy is too confusing, changed the name to Squabblr and fired all the other admins because he doesn’t believe in hate speech.
I had three accounts at one point, but lately I’ve only been using this one. The first instance I tried could never see any content because it was small. I then joined lemmy.world, and I could see plenty of content… when it wasn’t down. But this instance seems to be working well for me.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the active user count could have been explained by people trying different instances.
Chrome runs like garbage compared to Firefox, and this has always been the case for me. I didn’t make the switch in 2008. I also had a bad feeling that Chrome would become the new IE with every other browser ditching their own rendering engine and basing on Chromium.
People back then said it was OK because Chromium is ostensibly open-source. Look where that got us. Surprise, it’s still controlled by Google!
That song is spot on. They’ve successfully turned the people against each other to the point where anyone who criticizes the side they picked gets written off as a nazi.
Ooh, big text!
My point is, neither side actually gives a shit. I agree with most of what you’re saying about Republicans, but Democrats just do not give a shit either. They just play the blame game. Nothing will get done because all of these politicians are laughing their way to the bank while everybody else bickers.
First of all, not every conservative is a Trump supporter. Second, there are a number of loud liberals on TikTok who have said things like “cis people need to delete themselves.” It goes both ways.
Assuming everybody who votes differently from you or is in the opposing party is exactly the same is just as harmful as taking for granted that everything everybody on your side does or says is 100% correct. This binary view of politics has been exacerbated by social media, and it is doing a lot of harm. Both sides are basically at the point where they’re convinced that the other side wants them dead. It’s fucking crazy.
I disagree. Too many people take one side or the other, take for granted that their side is 100% correct, and refuse to believe anyone could possibly be center.
Nope, I don’t like the sound either. I didn’t like it on the model M on the IBM PS/2 either.
Remember when Canonical used to give away installation CDs to anyone who asked? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
I’m sure places that are still banning nuclear power aren’t helping either.
It’s a bot to find remote communities. By default, Lemmy instances only know about their own communities and those that the users have deliberately subscribed to.
Started with a really small instance, didn’t really have a whole lot of content in All and struggled to find communities, so I joined lemmy.world, which got me a lot more content and communities, but now it’s constantly having issues. So I’m trying this instance (as an alt for now) because there is a federation helper running on it. I’m honestly not sure which instance I will stick with long-term.
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