What “kickstart”? The fediverse isn’t a commercial venture. If we can connect with our friends and interests, it’s already “working”. I find fantastic new people here all the time, doing really niche stuff I’d never find on a platform focused on appealing to everyone.

If “99%” of people aren’t on it, that’s perfectly acceptable, and just makes it easier for the ones on it to find and talk to their friends. I don’t think we need or want the vast torrent of spammers, downvote bots, and “influencer” types who use whatever gives them clicks.

I was told something like this about an article I was pointing out wasn’t on page 1 of google, but was on virtually all other engines. “Unless it’s page 1 of google nobody cares”

And all I can say is “who cares? those aren’t the people it’s for”

This feels like clickbait - I find it hard to believe the writers of this piece are unaware of the protests. The better question, perhaps, is “why does media refuse to cover the protests”, and the answer to that is obvious - the media (damn near all of it) is controlled by the very oliarchs we’re protesting.

Considering it’s shipped by default on the fedi, on ghost, discourse, bsky and loads of other very hot upcoming and established tools, it’s very much alive. Just because xitter and facebook and google failed to find a way to monetize it and therefore tried to kill it doesn’t make it dead.

I’m a huge fan of RSS, it’s how I get 90% of my media now.

Can’t think of any times when “undesireables” have been sent to prisons/gulags in other countries. Nope. Nothing springs to mind…

I think even UK common law has something to say about that, some kind of Magna Carta? We regressed right back to pre-constitutional monarchy, do not pass go.

Dude literally pointed to his friends who made a killing on it, and posted “buy” info on his socials before reversing.

If we had any kind of system of laws, that’d be jail time.

Anyone else feel like their head is spinning from all the craziness right now? It’s a bit much tbh.

The pink panther theme still sits as my favorite, from childhood on.

Fingers crossed, right?

That’s a good suggestion, and I will look

I feel that. I’m currently using a laptop from like 2017 (with a 1050) and honestly… if it dies, I’m pretty well hosed.

See, that’s real prep, not buying 2,000 cans of beans and 20k in ammo :D

I can’t afford to get any real last-minute stuff, unfortunately. What I did do was stock up on rice and the spices that I largely use, and got some new shoes from walmart earlier than I normally would.

I put off the things I had been saving for (like a vero v), canceled everything but my basic phone service, and I’ll be seeing how much stuff I can get by with repairing/cobbling.

What’s sad is that the billionaires who control the only grocery options for 90 miles will be getting a LOT more of my income, and the small businesses (music stores, thrift stores, things like that) will be getting left. Thereby amplifying the wealth extraction already happening.

F this, and f everyone who voted for it.

When I saw them on tour with Slayer, there were no real lines for their shirts at the start, but by the end of the show they were almost entirely sold out. They made a lot of fans that day.

The rowing was fun, and I loved that set!

oh that song is amazing

Such a great group, I hope I can get to more of their concerts

TBF, Target largely brought this on themselves before the DEI stuff. They’re more expensive here than a proper dept store, and everything is locked in plastic and takes forever to get.

Can’t boycott what I already wasn’t using.