shout out to the lemmy developers for not making us be stuck on the other site

shout out to mastodon devs for making us have a better life than on Twitter

shout out to the pixelfed devs for allowing a actual photography platform to exist

shout out to the peertube devs for helping us not be stuck on youtube until the end of time

ETA: Shout out to the server operators who make the stuff be done

#SilentSunday

@ariadne were they always this insane?

Yeah, that’s kind of the sad flipside of things. Seems like social media has an issue with attracting weirdos to its places of power.

RE: https://oldbytes.space/@sinza/117577798830735664

Then there is nothing that the "Free Software movement" offers me that is worth my time and effort.

Perhaps we do need a better movement, one which makes the elimination of power hierarchies its priority.

@Gargron clearly unethical, but isn't his point that GNU's ethical mission has a limited scope (namely, software freedom, copyright, user privacy, etc)?

If you filtered source code contributions along every single moral dimension, you would end up with pretty much nothing at the intersection.

Think of all the scientific discoveries and tech invented by horrible people or horrible regimes. What matters to scientists is that the science is good. Historians and tribunals can judge the rest.

The standing stones are sleeping. They have stood guard forever, they will wake if needed.
They haven't needed to in living memory.

The standing stones are sleeping, but as we got up this morning, they stood sleeping in a different field, the other side of the village.

Still, they are sleeping.

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Às vésperas de finalmente ter de revelar os clientes da sua empresa, por ter perdido 2 recursos no Tribunal Constitucional, o Primeiro-Ministro passa o fim de semana em Portimão a jogar golfe com um deles.

Quando é que se diz muito claramente que Montenegro é corrupto e o seu Governo insustentável?

Yeah, that’s kind of the sad flipside of things. Seems like social media has an issue with attracting weirdos to its places of power.

Freaky died just the other night. Some say it was suicide.

oh yes your right il edit my post to include them

oh yes you’re right

RE: https://digipres.club/@alexandra/117576651383899283

f̶r̶e̶e̶ ̶a̶s̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶b̶e̶e̶r̶
f̶r̶e̶e̶ ̶a̶s̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶f̶r̶e̶e̶d̶o̶m̶
free as in slave labor