That’s what I love about the fediverse. Sure, the huge instances will struggle to maintain their identity, but new instances can be spun up for approx $15/mo USD. Pass the hat around to 100 people and you can easily cover that.

Also instances do not have to please everyone, and they don’t have to push ads, or worry about being a friendly corp playground, so they can just tell people who don’t fit the vibe to fuck right off.

I remember just feeling cool for using something different than everyone else.

Kind of uncomfortable how my other tech choices map onto this logic. Linux, vim, fediverse, … Am I a dickhead?

They need to YouTube a few meditation videos so they can become experts in mindfulness and not worry about all that /s

Rofl. Okay, this is a good post to stop scrolling on. Thank you for sharing

Yeah this is more my take. The sign up process is already pretty smooth. Sure some of the theory or technicals might be complicated, but is a centralized platform that has secret algorithms to keep you engaged and push content, some of which may or may not be promoted invisibly you can’t always tell – is that really less complicated? /rq

Like if you type in “join lemmy” or “join mastodon” or hell even “join fediverse” in any search engine, the first result is a website briefly describing the concept and giving your some choices of servers to sign up at.

That’s fascinating that you have so many parties. Do parties not have a lot of power at the “federal” level? Also curious if you have coalitions between similarly aligned parties!

Rock on! Look at us, contributing to the tools we use

That’s what I love so much about open source. Currently have a fork of kiTTY going, working on tracking down a little bug I found in my daily use.

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I agree that promoting the fediverse generally kind of doesn’t make sense. People join communities, not web protocols.

I wonder if we shouldn’t talk so much about “the fediverse” as we do about individual instances, because that’s what people actually join. They get the rest of the fediverse for free, but their home server will always be home. Just like with reddit back in the day, how I may not have identified much with the reddit overculture, I did love some of its communities.

Like look at the difference between the slrpnk communities, and the programming.dev communities. That’s something to be celebrated, like, come join this server - look at all the cool things we’re doing!

Yeah, but as others have said, your “true” life is both those periods of pause and play. Better way to look at it imho is how much you do for others vs yourself, and if you’re happy with that split.

I would consider your future self an other person as well, though obviously you do want to look after them.

Nice. Thanks for sharing

I have an interview coming up for a job that pays twice as much and looks to be about as much work as I do now. I hope I get it. I think that my departure from this place will cause a hell of a fire. Maybe if I’d have got that promotion I’d been hinting at for some time, I wouldn’t have updated my resume. But here we are. I am no longer gruntled.

Good luck!

And yep, I know exactly what you mean. A while ago I asked for 50k and remote, and boss jerked me around for months on it - moving goalposts, etc. When lo and behold, as soon as I put in my resignation they immediately offered me what I wanted, but of course by then I already had a much better offer in hand.

Whereas, as you know, if we’d been properly valued in the first place, we probably wouldn’t have been looking for a different jobs in the first place.

I feel like that’s one of the reasons for back to the office bullshit - being in an office makes it harder to interview for jobs.

Yeah honestly cubes were hell, but still nothing compared to an open office. Especially a well lit ““vibrant”” one.

Good for socialising. Absolute shit for actually working.

For 8 years I tried. Finally I got my chance when a global pandemic ravaged my planet. Now they’re trying to put me back in.

True but there are still differences and while individual impacts are small, like voting, it still matters which bad choice you choose.

I do this. I also have a kind of system to mark where on the page I’m at, depending on which way the receipt is facing / oriented.

Me whenever lose my bookmark thinking it’s the worst thing to happen to me, my book is ruined, and then I find my exact spot in 6.4 seconds.

Yeah has no one seen the horror show that is the used pan section of a thrift store? More flaking than a millennial get-together.

How we start the day off under this roof