Erikatharsis

In other news, water is wet, as anyone detained at Guantanamo Bay can readily attest

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It’s just a reference to some weeb shit from 2002

I have a question:

Well, on Reddit, with subreddits, you can go inside with your shoes on, right? Then, what if you stepped on dog poop out on the street, and you went to a subreddit without realizing it… If the Redditor father and mother and eldest son and eldest daughter all stepped on poop and went to a subreddit without realizing it…

Honestly, I feel like Mastodon is kinda never going to be like Twitter, even if its user count were to grow by two orders of magnitude. There are several reasons why, as the other replies point out, but the most important (IMO) is that Mastodon is just not a profit-driven platform. And if Mastodon is not a profit-driven platform, it is not designed to maximize user engagement. And if it is not designed to maximize user engagement, it is not designed to encourage toxic behavior.

Déjà vu, have I been in this place before?

But Venezuela, you need to understand that there is no good place to put the V in the acronym, wait for some other countries to join first

This is unrelated to the very poignant graphic but I like your username

The absolute absurdity of a news article on nefarious data collection requiring that I enable JS to read it, just so that it can load a ridiculous number of trackers.

What Erik Moeller is trying to say is that posting to a Twitter alternative owned by rich people is doing free work for said rich people.

My friend, I’m planning on switching to desktop Linux, and you sincerely expect me to make rational, informed decisions? /j

/srs It’s because I’m an idiot, Jim.

Oracle are the VirtualBox people, right? I just installed that program today to try desktop Linux for the first time. I’m inferring from the comments under this post that Oracle apparently has some sort of negative reputation in the Linux community…? Frankly, I feel like a real troy-returning-with-pizza.jpeg right now.

That’s the more common variant, but “embrace, extend, exterminate” is also used.

Honestly, I don’t see why Threads couldn’t be intended to destroy both Twitter foremost, and also the fediverse before it’s big enough to pose any real threat: Mastodon has some two million monthly active users right now, which is tiny compared to Twitter/Threads, yes, but it’s also not nothing, especially for what Mastodon is and how quickly it managed to reach that level of usage.

So I don’t doubt that Threads has ill intentions for both the underdog and overdog. I just don’t think that the fediverse can be killed that easily.

Are people really saying “the fediverse is doomed”?

I have put in place a number of restrictions for my “rudimentary” use of Reddit. Most of these restrictions have to do with using Reddit to promote its alternatives, deleting/rewriting old posts/comments, decreasing my usage of Reddit overall and increasing my use of Kbin, and countering and deplatforming bigotry on Reddit. Some people can argue that even “rudimentary” use of Reddit is too much use, and maybe it is, but it’s still a pretty good improvement compared to the alternative of not being on the fediverse at all. I think that’s what matters in our current landscape.

Regarding ad blockers, which I’ve seen mentioned a few times in this thread: Ad blocking doesn’t really “stick it to the man” like a lot of people seem to think it does. The people who block ads are those who’d never click an ad, anyways, and if ad blocking is what it takes for them to use a website and build its value, then that’s what it takes. So ad-blocking doesn’t really decrease the click-through rate — I’ve actually heard that ad-blocking can sometimes increase the click-through rate, since ads are only shown to those most likely to click them.

Wow, I had no idea! That’s awesome.

“Irwin, what is the plural of ox?”

— “Oxen! The farmer used his oxen!”

“Brian, what is the plural of box?”

— “Boxen. I bought two boxen of donuts.”

“Irwin, what is the plural of goose?”

— “Geese! I saw a flock of geese!”

“Brian, what is the plural of moose?”

— “MOOSEN!”

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I can’t read that without thinking of “Democracy Manifest”

It’s a parody of Dr. Breen’s “Welcome to City 17” speech from the start of Half-Life 2. If you’ve never played Half-Life 2, then it’s a very, very, very strong recommend from me.