I think it's absurd to give Meta the shadow of a benefit of the doubt. in the past, they have explicitly stated their intention to make facebook the internet. If zuck had his way, there would be exactly one website, a monolith collecting your data to more efficiently serve you ads. There is no world in which their participation in the fediverse is not self serving and a net loss for the rest of us.

I sort by new. It seems to work. There's a severe lack of comments, which I am trying to do my part to rectify.

The child should have bought 3 bottles of milk.

I think it might be a bit of an xy problem. I myself have hoped for the runaway success of the fediverse. But I realized it's not actually some absolute number of users I want. What I want is for the fediverse to have that same "there's a community for anything" that reddit had.

I'm starting to hope the fediverse doesn't get too big now, honestly. There's a certain number of eyeballs that is going to attract people interested in exploiting those eyeballs, and I don't know if the fediverse is robust enough to fight them off as the pot of gold they see begins to overflow. It's hard balance to find. And maybe the decentralized aspect of the fediverse does mean that it can't be fully assimilated by capital, I don't know.

Were living in interesting times.

Will it still be possible to purchase a VPS in another country and pay with Monero or something? This seems like insane over reach, are theu going to make it illegal for americans to do business with international IAAS providers?

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I still use soulseek, been using it for nearly 20 years at this point

I think about this a lot. I'm so grateful I had the experience of messing with the windows registry and other phenomena of the 90s.

I wonder if it would work if you spoofed your user agent.

My main hobby since February has been learning how to program. I decided to start with python since it seemed to be the best way to focus on programming and not fighting the syntax. I've been following the 100 days of code course on Udemy and I love it. Right now I'm working on a project to scrape the bill board top 100 chart for a given day, then use the Spotify API to create a playlist from the scraped data.

I think we're just as bored. We may in fact be worse off for having increased our "interest threshold" such that we must seek more and more stimuli in order to stave off boredom.

Doomscrolling is the new boredom.

I'll probably still occasionally visit reddit because there are some subs I am in that are just such mature communities, they are still a useful resource.

That being said, I LOVE the old school web vibes of Lemmy. I love the lack of ads. I didn't realize how much I really missed the pre MAANG internet. It wasn't until Lemmy began to fill the void that I realized it was there, and it is so fucking exciting having some of that wild west energy back.

This reminds me of the old human psychology trick: try not to think of a pink elephant.

Import Driving.Self

Rotten.com fucked me up back in the day

I love the lack of ads, but I suppose I could live with them as long as they were clearly distinguished from real user content. I hated those reddit ads that were from a reddit account and looked like just another post if you didn't pay attention to the flair.

I got my approval email, is the problem limited to denial notification?

Sorry I missed your call, luckily I noticed 5 seconds later so I could send this text message.

Please don't call again please don't call again please don't...

I spent most of my time on Reddit in the learn programming subs, so I'm glad at least that demographic has moved here. I'm almost 34, don't work in tech but want to, don't use Linux but want to (and if the rumors of windows adding ads to the OS are true I will switch to Linux full time except for gaming). I wasn't really that invested in the reddit API changes but I liked reddit when it was more under ground and wild west. I used to spend a lot of time on rcsources (those days are behind me regardless, though). So I wanted to see if there was still room on the internet for the outlaw tech cowboy shtick, and Lemmy stepped up to the plate.

That his initial view of his powers implications was flawed is central to his character. His entire moral philosophy is predicated on his feelings of guilt and regret for his selfish actions resulting in Uncle Bens death.