I totally agree. Intellectual property is a capitalist myth created only for the purpose of beating other people away from progress.

Any civilized society would believe in the free commerce of ideas.

Kids are crazy smart of you don’t baby them their whole lives. Talk to them like responsible adults and (surprise!) they’ll learn to behave in responsible adult like ways.

Like every day? Yeah it’s worse now but Google is still useful for a lot of things.

That being said, I do have AdBlock so it’s a different internet for me.

When the age gap is greater than her age…

But honestly at 34 you’re mature enough to marry anyone older than you.

I suspect the fediverse is stickier than mainstream social media, since there’s no incentive to be anti-consumer, and anyone can make their own frontend.

It’s only a matter of time until these companies keep making unforced errors and people join us.

Please file Nicole between “Beans” and “Trying not to Poop”

Being pedantic about the differences between mammoths and mastodons is legitimately one of my favorite pastimes. Thank you!

Agreed on all counts, except that rebrands rarely succeed without boatloads of cash behind them. And even then not always.

I’ve heard (and experienced to a certain extent) that a rebrand is a sign of the beginning of the end for a product.

Like, have you ever gone on a sugar fast for a couple days then drank some fruit juice? That shit hits HARD.

The thing I miss most from Reddit is all the niche technical communities. So much knowledge is contained in those.

I’d argue it’s part of “the fediverse” but not “The Fediverse”.

That’s literally the plot of Stardew Valley. Leaving the world of digital work in favor of something more tangible is a dream come true for many of us.

Celeste is pretty cute but can get quite difficult if you try to complete everything.

Sadly it hasn’t been proven in court yet that copyright even matters for training AI.

And we damn well know it doesn’t for Chinese AI models.

Think of all the skills you could learn! Basically any task that takes less than 60 seconds to complete!

Haha, those silly billionaires are just like me! Haven’t we all bought an election or two?

Eleven Labs really does good work. I’m also using it for a project, in this case to teach children to read.

Are you looking for someone to commiserate with or some actually useful advice? Because working on fundamental social skills is exactly the advice you need. Relationships are certainly attainable, if you put in the work.

I’m actually okay with semi-centralized. Most people need that to trust a platform, but it still gives you the option to self host if you really care.

This is a particularly difficult situation to give advice on because it could be totally harmless or completely dangerous, depending on the details.

You’re probably best talking to a therapist or other highly trusted individual who knows the specifics of the situation instead of random internet strangers.

The “limited fashion choices for a man to wear” was enforced by men, not women. It’s not the slam dunk argument you seem to think it is. (Especially considering during the same era women couldn’t own property or vote.) Men have had privilege for nearly all of recorded history.

I know you’re just doubling down on your argument here, which is a normal human thing. You should really read up on the topic and see what experts say about sexism. There are lots of good citations in the Wikipedia article here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexism

Both those things can be true. One is caused by sexism, the other by classism. Neither negates the other, and implying so is incredibly dismissive.

ODDTAXI is an absolutely amazing show. It feels slow and chill, yet it’s really gripping.

The writing is phenomenal! Every detail matters, even little stuff like “what pen is that guy writing with?”

Tools that are well loved like that are always worth it imo. Anything to simulate the creative side of the brain.

Hi, I have a PhD in “for the love of god don’t put nuts in brownies” and the answer is no, do not put nuts in brownies.

Turns out language is pretty damn flexible. Even if I made an obvious mistake, you meant what I knew.

Had an executive assistant at my company who did very little if anything. Nobody knew why she was kept around and paid so much. Everyone pressured the CEO to fire her, but he strongly resisted. Eventually she was fired, but immediately threatened to sue for sexual harassment. CEO threw her a lovely settlement check despite claiming that nothing ever happened. Mmhmm.

You’re getting downvoted but you’re right. If they joined the fediverse that means you can have an account on any other platform you choose, including one you own. And that one account can access all the content everywhere. So basically you’d get all the perks of YouTube but few if any of the problems.

Heck, I’m just a fan of the electromagnetic spectrum in general!

Alts or bots, maybe

Why would anyone pay for that if lemmynsfw is free?

If that’s truly the case, nothing on earth can protect your data.

That being said, large corporations are far more liable to consumer protection lawsuits, especially in areas like the EU.

The easiest way is a sitewide NoAI meta tag, since it’s the current standard. Researchers are much more likely to respect a common standard and extremely unlikely to respect a single user’s personal solution adding a link to their comments.

Plus even if you defederate them, oops, it’s all public anyway!

Yeah but now they have to play by our rules or get defederated. We are no longer at the mercy of profit motives.

Because they’re not familiar with the concept of doing whatever the fuck you want.

The only thing Reddit still has is certain very active niche communities, but we do great on the more general stuff.

It’s a lovely place these days. Welcome back.

Yep, on a public forum like this we lose very little on privacy by federating with them. What we do stand to lose is comment and post quality, but that’s trivial to fix by simply blocking threads on a personal level.