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Random link from the archives: "The Devil's Rejects | Anatomy of a Franchise - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20240311103448/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOazcIep5PI originally retrieved Mon 11 Mar 2024 10:34:48 AM EDT

@futurebird

It probably needs to be a two-step process.

By analogy: Of course, you can find your significant other by posting something on the Fediverse, but then, you will need to apply genuine perfume on the last mile. Or, at the very least, some shower gel. 😂

@michaelgemar honored, ideally i will be the most interesting and disturbing thing in everyones feed by 2028

@aetios@sns.minovsky.space tach hackerboy

@bjc

I'll be here all night folks!

@freddy yes that's it, thanks!

@fitheach Those definitely could do with some farmwork to wear in those new clothes. Although not sure they'd be much good at it.

@Paul I think this is what you're looking for. https://indieweb.org/#:~:text=%F0%9F%8E%A1%20Homebrew%20Website%20Club

@jeder@miau.jeder.pl is that a new systemd module? for rice?

@bjc

Radio waves are rather large so several ants might need to link together for long distance listening. Possibly ten ants.

Call it an "ant ten a"

$[x4 ]

@detondev The images you post are always the most interesting and disturbing things in my feed.

@dgar Is the how the xmas special came about?

One of the deepest messes of the last 20 years is that people increasingly struggle to understand the word "us". They hear "me".

50 years of #neoliberalism, reinforced by its historical companion #postmodernism, have dug a deep well of poison. The last 20 years of #mainstreaming alt culture have been drinking from it.

Collective identity becomes individual identity. Shared responsibility becomes personal choice. Solidarity becomes a collection of competing interests.

This is how we lose the ability to act together, even when we're facing the same problems. We won't rebuild grassroots power by digging deeper into this well.

Don't drink from the mainstream. We need to compost this mess and rebuild cultures based on trust, solidarity and collective action.

That's part of what the #OMN and the #openweb reboot are about. Moving from "me" back towards "us".

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/37870004

reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).

the reason why this happened is because reddit is a for-profit company and tries to extract money out of the userbase, at the expense of the users.

another example of a bad decision that reddit made was to push a lot of ragebait (“Am I The Asshole?”) because company shareholders want to see “engagement numbers” go up, and if somebody writes an angry reply to a post, that’s “engagement”. but it makes you angry at the stupidity of the “Asshole”, so it makes your day worse. that is another example how reddit makes money at the expense of the users.

size (number of monthly active users) is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.

we should probably get rid of the “don’t make lemmy grow, it will ruin the platform if we grow” idea.

Honestly it kinda checks out that a solid half the comments on the new Fall Out Boy start with the poster self-identifying as a 30-something teacher 😅