I love Linux, but I don’t think that Linux users should promote it like it’s a free Windows, because it isn’t. You should learn Linux because you want to learn Linux, not because you hate Windows.

Frankly, I didn’t go 100% Linux right away. I dual-booted for several years first.

They’re all back online now because of articles like this.

Consensus doesn’t require everyone in the world to agree it just requires the majority to agree

An overwhelming majority, yes. Do you a have a survey or study that demonstrates this?

clearly the majority do otherwise the comment that it’s confusing would not have been made.

This makes no sense. Anybody can make any comment. Just because I say a thing doesn’t mean that the majority agrees with me.

It isn’t a consensus, though. If it were, nobody would be debating it.

It’s traditional to play lots of video games. Trust me on this one.

It seems reasonable to me that you could admire somebody without thinking that they’re a friend or family. That’s what being a fan is. Some of the more extreme fans are going to want to know intimate details about the object of their admiration. I don’t see how it’s different from any other obsessive hobbyist.

I don’t understand your comment, especially the last sentence. Who thinks that celebrities are their friends?

Also:

• Anything that mentions LGBTQ people
• Anything that insults the US or its flag
• Any religion that isn’t Christianity

(Not an exhaustive list)

Where’s the lie

A lot of people with mental health issues self-medicate with illegal drugs. This guy was probably suffering from depression, and the police pushed him too far. So ridiculous and tragic.

Yeah, don’t try to make anything better. It’s a waste of time unless you’re trying to overhaul the entire economic system.

What a smooth-brained take.

Couldn’t read the article, because it’s behind a paywall.

Some sites work much better with Chromium. I default to Firefox (LibreWolf), though.

I can’t imagine keeping myself locked into only one browser. For as long as I can remember, I’ve always used at least two.

This is the UK.

I couldn’t have even guessed that they were trying to draw a swastika with that one.

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If meta was to pull the plug on federation it wouldn’t kill ActivityPub, there would still be millions of us here.

It’s not about pulling the plug. It’s about introducing proprietary features that break communication, forcing people off of an independent server and onto Threads.

If most of your IRL friends are on Threads and your experience with them has gotten janky due to Meta fucking with the protocol, it’s going to be very difficult to not switch over to Threads.

Oh, and good luck trying to get your friends to switch over to some indie server they’ve never heard of. If you can do that, then you should run for president.

Both are open protocols for communication over the Internet. Both have been adopted by a large corporate interest.

Now, how are they different?

Could somebody explain what “fedipact” means?

“The flood of crap” isn’t what people should be worried about. They should be worried about Meta embracing, extending, and extinguishing the Fediverse. There’s a good article about this here. People are worried about the wrong things and don’t realize what’s at stake.