I was so fed up with IG and explored mastodon/pixelfed for a bit, and it felt like a lot of weight off my shoulder when looking at the feed(s) knowing that there is no machinery feeding me straightup BS. The "feed" was behaving exactly as it used to during the days when RSS was a thing (remember those?).

like.. wow... I have control over this! and I don't have to spend too much energy filtering off BS. That convinced to explore alternatives like Lemmy.

I joined today. :)

it's clear that Elon is seeing the writing on the wall, and how he is trying humble without admitting his own fuckup. it's a trap

this needs to be repeated more often

I believe he became open about this after EU are being public on going after big tech, starting with X

even if Russia were to agree to ceasefire, I believe that the EU will still continue with defence spending, mainly to diverse away from US dependence and trade with i.e Canada.

just my 2c

Ooooops, I didn't realise @[email protected] meant _piracy_🏴‍☠️ it was late when I replied.😅

Anyway, thanks for letting me know!

I avoided forums growing up because from what I've witnessed there was a lot of verbal abuse and so on, but I was into "communities" (basically closed social network long before I heard of myspace or facebook).

For example, I listened to a lot of hip-hop as a teenager. there was no meta algorithm feeding me garbage, but there was a hip hop community website :) It felt more intimate or homegrown if you will.

😂

can you elaborate? or should I assume that means I can't follow "communities" from privacy instances?

Excellent choice of lens.

I feel attacked 😂

You beat me to it. I wanted to do exactly this when I saw the title 😂

😂

my problem with anytype is that it isn't local first unlike Obsidian (yes, I know it's not EU, but at least it's american)

Local first is not unique. You can create text file with any editor, click save and you're local and offline first.

While it might be local first as touted by their website, however it's misleading since there were no local text files which are fundamental for actual storage of important notes and backup with 3-2-1 principle. Use of local dbs complicates the whole process.

But you do you.

I've read this entire comment section all the way down here. What a waste of time.

I truly pray that our EU leaders don't bicker amongst themselves like this. 🤣 EU armament now!