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Ha, that does seem wildly wholesome! I’ll keep my eyes open for cool rocks to share!

Thanks for fighting the good fight! A couple of thoughts from a former greasy salesman:

A) Are you meeting what OP needs or wants? OP says they’re trying to quit reddit because they’re wasting their life there. If they’re trying to quit social media, not sure recommending a different style of social media is going to help.

B) Probably best to come in ready for typical responses e.g., “there’s no content!” “Too many crazies” (say what you will, until you learn to avoid .ml etc, the fediverse can really suck for the vast majority of “normal” folks.)

C) Maybe have good examples of communities, instances or whatever that you want to recommend. Being able to point to concrete examples etc always helps!

Good luck!

Well, we did. But he gone now :(

People have answered pretty well but I’d also come at it from a different angle, the EU also probably wants ways to deepen connections without full blown membership. (Consider the headaches that Orban caused for years.) In an era that looks increasingly like it will be defined by great power rivalry, having the EU create a more nimble sort of partnership than full blown membership could be very attractive to many middle countries (especially in East Asia as countries reassess their security guarantees from America against China’s increasingly bellicose behaviour.)

This was really well put, thanks!

Donald trump playing fast and loose with the truth?!? Well I never!

I stopped paying attention after George said it was all good in front of that Mission Accomplished banner. I assume the parades for the liberators were amazing though.

They sure that’s not just .ml leaking into BlueSky?

For context, Alberta is our Texas. It and a few other prairie provinces are fairly conservative, though the cities tend to be more Canadian progressive. That contradiction sets up dumb fights like these. And as someone in the article pointed out, these dumb culture war fights are a handy distraction from all sorts of wild scandal etc.

Lots of countries want to pivot closer to the EU as a hedge against a mercurial America or authoritarian China…

I’m definitely a fan of closer ties though I’d be a little wary about fully joining an organization where decisions can be held up by a recalcitrant Orban or Le Pen.

These photos will never not make me giggle.

For dummies like me, is the +3.1% of the total or just the subtotal of Linux machines?

To put it less crazy, is that a more than doubling of Linux since last time or lower, but still respectable 3% growth of Linux machines?

One is amazing and a beautiful omen, other is cool.

Optics aren’t great and it’s not like he has qualified people helping but honestly, I still think I want Donald as far away from a problem as possible just so he can’t make it even worse.

Never seen the term apicalypse and just had to say it’s fantastic.

That was my fediverse cohort too.

it’s a more transparent and sensible moderation model?

Certainly more transparent with the modlog though, depending on the domain etc you might come across some interesting moderation (.ml is hilarious for this stuff.)

Regardless, welcome to the fediverse, hope it tickles your fancy!

“Are we going to negotiate these with your Supreme Court or…?”

My conservative uncle does this instinctively for community and strangers.

For strangers, he’s always the first to rush out and help folks.

I rember when we were at a lakefront cottage he’ll rent for the family to come visit and he saw folks struggling to get a boat out of increasingly bad weather and immediately loaded us into the truck to go help for the next hour.

He also seemingly knows the name of every employee he encounters. When he go to that cabin, he’ll bring bottles of wine to give to the check in folks, the cleaning staff (and a thing of cider for one person who years ago said they don’t like wine.) When we shop for the food for the weekend, it takes twice as long because he stops and has a conversation with seemingly everyone in the gigantic store and knows their names, their kids and they know him and what he’s been up to.

In a lot of ways, he’s a damned admirable man, even if I find his politics repellant.

This book is full of them

The author also had a few great TED talks on the subject:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVimVzgtD6w

I dunno, I babysit my friends’ toddler and she has way more self awareness.

“Calls are being made on social media” - In other words, the same accounts that were already calling for boycotts are continuing to do so.

Talk is cheap, more so online.