Sounds like a pretty good feature request XD by no means do I want to see lemmy be an exact copy of reddit, but you can follow people over there, and it seems a usefull thing to do.

My problem with masto is that it’s a pretty decent twitter replacement that I found while looking for a facebook replacement. I figured out two things real quick: I really didn’t want use anything similar to facebook after all, and while masto came a bit closer to what I’d wanted, in the five or six years I’ve used it since, I’ve become a master of cooking my thoughts down to 500 characters.

I don’t feel like it was a productive challenge; more often than not I came away feeling semi-muted.

I’ll call it the twitter limitation, because I know masto kind of inherited it.

I just found it limiting. Go figure :)

THAT SAID, the masto devs make really good software, without qualification.

This Is The Way.

Wots the scoop, Chef?

When I was a child, a lot of things now made primarily in China and Taiwan were made in the United States or Japan. Things of particularly good quality and of advanced technology came from the US; cheap trinkets came from Japan, and China was literally starving. When we wouldn’t finish our meals as children, our mothers would literally tell us 'there is a starving child somewhere in China right now who would love to have (insert child-hated food here).

China does so well because in the 70s and 80s the large corporations shipped manufacturing jobs and technologies to Japan and China. China literally does so well because Americans who needed things made got too greedy. Since then much of the skilled working class in America has disappeared, because if there are not jobs for you then what good is training and education? Until Americans stop subsidizing Asia without consumer-driven outsourced manufacturing, China will continue to do well. After that? Chinese policy will really matter to the Chinese, who still have not developed the means to feed their vast populations.

Hey thanks, I will give that a look :)

I guess you don’t have matching statistics for other economies, you know, to maybe add some perspective to your asswertions. But no, I guess not, as your goal is to demean and divide, not present a proper picture of any one state of affairs.

Hmmmm, whatever floats your boat. I find it highly constraining, but I do like to go on. No doubt the result of a couple years of instruction in collegiate level English composition.

Also, it’s more a platform limitation (masto tries to go head to head with twitter) than anything,

In any case, the source of my actual butthurt with mastodon today is this thing they’re doing with the android beta. Where you have to be subscribed to their patreon to get it. Honestly, I dgaf about getting the android client; I hate my phone and it’s because of the handcuffed, bastardized linux it runs. However I am deeply committed to FOSS, having developed, tested and in fact made a living with it for decades. My beef isn’t that I think everything is supposed to be free, it’s that I think anything advertised as FOSS damn well better be free or they can anticipate hearing from those pf us who take Free and Open damned seriously. There are a million ways they can directly support themselves in developing mastodon without practically taking a segment of their user base hostage for the FOSS code.

That Is Not The Way.

That was true before there was Russ aggression against Ukraine.

If you want to fix the world, fix the world. Don’t blame all the world’s problems on a single unjust action against a backdrop of a sea of such actions.

Actually, so would I for almost everything - except journalism. Why? because wikipedia was never intended to be used that way. Reading news there is like searching for a palimpsest on a roll of recycled toilet paper. Sure, it could be there, but why would you ever think to look there for it?

Wikipedia has a big part to play, but this kind of thing just brings the information war right up onto the pages of what is arguably the best reference we have.

Curation suggests that we should protect it from becoming involved in an ideological tug of war lest it be damaged in the process.

just…NO.

The concern is retaliation for the crap perpetrated by the software authors who nuked disks based on the IP address appearing to be Russ. That misguided and unethical attempt at armchair warfighting cost far more to the people fighting the Russ than it did the Russ themselves.

It’s a fucking war , people. It involves us all, like it or not, because that is how the aggressor has played it.

You can tell when you’re in a fight when a thug is punching you in the face. That you don’t choose to respond in your defense doesn’t mean you’re not involved. It just means you’re an idiot taking an ass kicking.

“Erode the US Dollar”

That’s been going on for some time. Both China and Russia have been quietly divesting themselves of the US Dollar for some years. It isn’t really news, but it makes great propaganda, because it’s true and relevant and can be disconnected from time in such a way that it can be leveraged as needed to show what a bunch of weak ass punks we Americans must surely be.

On a different note, that sword you’re yanking on is the still rooted tooth of a sleeping dragon.

WAIT I THOUGHT YOU WERE GOING TO EXPRESS AN ACTUAL OPINION

…and everyone will get fed, but the producers will reap the rewards of war profiteering.

Just another reason to bend us over at the cash register for a loaf of bread and a box of pasta.

Which is actually how ‘Linux’, in the common useage, is used.

Idk, but all the cool kids that started doing it are old

Really though, if you want to mark a proper line between them, Linux is the kernel+a certain few libraries, and nothing more.

At one time, almost everything else was GNU. A lot of code has been written since then by folks who neither recognize nor see a need for the distinction.

All that’s left at this point is politics.

My suggestion is 1. Stop being so fruitlessly pedantic and 2. Don’t worry about it. The statute of limitations has run out ;)

The solution is real simple, don’t turn to wikipedia on matters that are politically charged. Get your news from a news outlet, instead of expecting that a crowdsourced online encyclopaedia might be up on current events.

I came here to say 'Fuck Russia’s Govt"

and that I feel bad for the Russian people.

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