It’s official. Mississippi elects its first Black senator in almost 150 years.
@carnage4life revel!
This was sung at my wedding, the perfect baritone, Souzay:
Gérard Souzay - Clair de lune - Gabriel Fauré / Paul Verlaine
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@tuban_muzuru @divVerent oh that's a good one! I shall have to cover it some time
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today is to practice french kiss if you need to suya
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We really sped ran from ID checks to porn to ‘ID checks for vinted and eBay ’. Once people get a taste for restrictions it never stops at what is initially proposed. Social freedoms are now under a much wider attack in the U.K. #vinted #Ebay https://www.thetimes.com/uk/technology-uk/article/under-16s-children-ban-ebay-vinted-grooming-mkr9j88f3
@tuban_muzuru @divVerent G2-C6
bass arias very rarely go to G2 or lower, not because basses can't sing that low but because it doesn't carry well over an orchestra.
the C6 is not pretty but it exists lol
This was sung at my wedding, the perfect baritone, Souzay:
Gérard Souzay - Clair de lune - Gabriel Fauré / Paul Verlaine
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Checking to see
if the nano and vim maintainers
object to slavery
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21st century things
The AP calls it. Mississippi will have its first Black US senator since Reconstruction.
I’m blessed to be living my best life, and I believe in giving back. ❤️ I’m giving out $20K to the first 10 people who message me “GRACE.” I understand that times are hard, and I want to help ease someone’s financial burden.
@maximpistos Wurde @eichkat3r vernascht? 😉
Nous avons été interviewés par @stupmedia dans cet article concernant la fermeture de l'hébergeur militant Autistici/Inventati.
@Framasoft @stupmedia Petit problème de SSL stup media
I tried to play Doom 64 but I just couldn't. I was like why am I supposed to shoot those guys. What did they ever do to me. They just live here
I’m blessed to be living my best life, and I believe in giving back. ❤️ I’m giving out $20K to the first 10 people who message me “GRACE.” I understand that times are hard, and I want to help ease someone’s financial burden.
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Maybe the Book of the SubGenius is right about Jesus being a space alien. Jesus said in John 8:23 “You are from below, i am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world." Learn more at:
@stevegrunwell @hllizi What a sacrifice they are making!
Pretty sure a lot of Fedi users are going to understand this reference.
@scy Haha! I totally get it! I'm having a difficult time explaining it to my friend Bob, though. Could you try to explain it to him like he's five? Thanks!
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Muy buenos días antifascistas ✊🏼😁❤️
#Cats #CatsOfMastodon #Schwarzohr
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Just a little void hanging out in the garden! 🐾🖤
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size is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.
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.
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I mean, I agree. “content” is extremely an airquote situation, as an abstraction. I also dislike the term, but need some kind of catch-all for describing the ever increasing demand the fediverse has for space and processing. It’s a real problem, though one that many people (not me) are actively working to solve and I’m grateful for that work.
My concern about fediverse space has more to do with inter-connected federation storage issues, such as caching content from other instances. Having seen how even small instances balloon in costs, it has completely scared me away from even attempting to host a small instance. I might have this wrong though, but I’ve heard horror stories about space requirements due to the caching-heavy nature of the federated internet.
Oh yes, that is a real concern if the fediverse grows big. I wonder of a fedi CDN is theoretically possible, or if we by design are stuck with pushing the same content (I wish we had a better word) to thousands of instances in parallell?
The way I feel though, is that I’d rather have the decentralized non-commercial social media, even if that means that my instance has size restrictions to limit costs. Maybe we have been conditioned to assume that it’s trivial to send large 4K videos as a baseline standard, when that is actually quite expensive. Idk, what is the way forward, frugal content, or cdn efficiency without losing control?
