I'm only here for when I need something to browse (That and the pro wrestling community is pretty good)

And looking at a bunch of uncs with rose tinted glasses welded to their face, is worth a good laugh.

I use powershell on linux, it's on AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/powershell

I write scripts on my linux machine then run them on windows workstations

Brother, do you see yourself?

That's exactly what I did in my original comment.

Call out Lemmites for their ego (building the www), and their racism and misogyny (which no one is trying to dispute (very telling))

They've got an entire instance!

enshittification just means corporate control and advertising

That is what enshittification means. It is specifically a corporation making it's product shittier because they've cornered the market.

Did we build the world wide web or did we just shitpost for the lulz for decades without realizing we gave all the benefits of our shitposting to Mark Zuckerberg?

I've been here for three years. Weirdest Z in the gen.

Will you set the world on fire?

We make jokes but Lemmy is still younger than most of Congress

We're young whippersnappers to be sure.

Well, we went from shitposting in niche, independently run, forums, to doing it on corporate platforms that spy on you. So I don't think that the shitposting itself is necessarily the issue here

I didn’t do anything. I just went along for the ride. I love using tech other people made to help me do shit. I think I just like problem solving efficiently.

We know all IT departments are primarily composed of furries, so it's just a branch of number 1 really.

I didn't say that, me not wanting to read them doesn't make them worthless

Why you people always gotta take everything as black and white. I use "bot" interchangeably with "shill."

Edit: I see no one found the humor with switching the actual thing that is black and white in his statement ("Everyone I disagree with") with the "bot" and "shill" thing.

I still want to read bad takes, that's not the issue here

Lemmy.world blocks posting from Tor and some VPNs.

Do Linux Russians also wear fancy socks?

If they're getting paid to do it, they're just meatbots.

Don't wanna

There also seems to be something about the echo chamber that has a weird reinforcing effect. It can become really pathological. People talk about the "reddit hivemind", but it doesn't really strike you until see people acting crazy.

One incident that really stuck out for me was a post with a woman holding a sign. I forget what the entire sign said, but the phrase had the word "stupider" in it. I went into the comments, and a ton of people were making fun of her for using that word. Why? Because they thought that it was grammatically incorrect. You're supposed to say "more stupid", they said. Well, that's wrong, and I pointed out to them that it was a word according to any dictionary. I had people arguing with me that the dictionaries were incorrect.

Then there are the AI detectives. These people are fucking insane. It doesn't matter if you have a statement saying that you don't use AI. They don't believe you! They can tell. If they were doing this to my artwork, I would be livid.

Hey now, the real benefits of shitposting were the bans we got along the way.

minors not being listened to/having autonomy is the foundation of most things wrong with this world :(

Only secretly!

That old cartoon show "Metabots" but they're people in a computer cave lol

There are better forum software for that.

But federation makes the user count too high and leads to all the problems other social media has.

I was spending 12 hours a day staring at screen all the way back in the 90s. It was just a 14inch CRT not a phone screen. I was Gen z before Gen z was even born.

To be fair, you did not know, how what you build, would end up being used. How could you, especially since you were working for a non-profit, that helped teachers? It is not like you were building something obviously dangerous, weapons or some shit. Maybe you feel responsible, but expecting everyone to just not do anything, in fear of it being potentially misused for something nefarious, is no way to live. That way none should do anything.

Clearly "all the problems other social media has" are present without federation, so the claim federation leads to those problems is kind of silly.

Strong claim

The problem is users, if all instances were defederated then each instance would have less which is what you want.

Federation would be fine if users could only interact with people on their own instance/see content from their own.

Heartache to heartache, we stand. No promises, no demands. Love is a battlefield.

I think a lot of you are projecting, lol

I love young people. My volunteer little sister just graduated and I used to work with trafficking victims. Listening to young people one-on-one is important and rewarding, I hope for both of us.

Reading a hasty thought from someone who doesn't even know who they are yet every 30 seconds on the Internet on websites like reddit, where people skew really young, and taking that extremely seriously is not enjoyable, for adults or for them. And unfortunately, whatever stupid thing people say gets preserved on the Internet for WAY too long, all the more reason to disregard it quickly, but people really struggle with that online.

Do... Do you understand what federation means in this context?

Also, have you considered just, like, going outside?

Yes to both. It doesn't change the issue.

There is nothing here for you.
You may leave at any time.

Fuck that. I don't regret it. We built the world wide web from nothing for everyone and had it fucking stolen by rich assholes who put our community resources WE developed behind ads and paywalls. Unlike those uncreative hacks we have the talent to take it back.

You can debate me on it if you like...

I've fucking known who I am since I was 12, no one would accept it or believe me or give me bodily autonomy or let me learn actually useful things instead of religion at school, or let me not wear religious and gender invalidating clothing

Good man(/woman/person/other-identity-that-represents-you)!

I'm from the 40+ demographic but also weird and I don't think it's really about age or generation. I don't care about how you reached this particular stage of enlightenment; all that matters is if you're on the fediverse, y'all are my people.

As a call center employee, the most inexplicably difficult part of my job is asking an older person to navigate to our website. When I give them the 9 letter address, it almost always results in a google search for them and the ordeal of having them try to pick out our website from the sponsored results brings joy to advertisers everywhere.

I'm really sorry you went through that

Almost no one was into Linux back then though