Top comments before I actually read them all are quibbling about how the Reddit number refers to “accounts” rather than people, which is valid,

but let’s be real: not so valid as to move the needle on that ratio very much.

I think the lesson here, is in just how few users are actually needed, in order to have a community that works.

People have this tunnel vision now, that sites like Twitter, which briefly became global information infrastructure and an arbiter of legitimacy, were somehow an inherent good, which has been ruined by Musk et al. I think it was already quite horrible, for our discourse, our culture, our ability to discuss things with nuance, and the fact that the whole world got locked into it has created a permanent albatross around our necks, as we struggle to reestablish a society of laws and science.

40k is probably about as many users as a site or network can have, with very tight controls on bots to be sure, before things get bad. The people who talk about the whole world moving to the Fedi as a “new twitter” free of capitalism, are really lacking imagination in how good the internet could be.

There’s a meme image in this style, of a deadpan guy in the corner at a party, talking to noone, and the caption is his thoughts.

I’m that guy, and I’m thinking, “The license-filtering capabilities of AI code have made this debate pointless… unless we deal with Capitalism.”

I don’t think it’s topical in the sense of “this joke riffs on a current news cycle event,” which is how I think of “topical humour”. But it kind of is, in that this debate over licenses is ongoing since RMS invented the GPL.

Glam Rock was an overtly queerified (I mean that in a good way) presentation of a music genre which, up to that point, was pretty hypermasculine.

I do see the Glam aesthetic as well, but culturally, glam boys were pretty and just wanted to rock and/or roll you a little, and didn’t much care if you were a girl or boy.

It’s still queer-coded at minimum. In the context of the modern day, where only weirdoes like me enjoy hatewatching old TOTP videos of Gary Glitter and “Glam” is as likely to mean Motley Crue and Cinderella than the New York Dolls, it’s trans-coded as fuck.

I don’t fucking buy that, in other words. I bet if we scratched the surface of Oz Perkins, we’d find he’s a nickel-plated edgelord.

The character itself. Indeterminate gender, presented in a completely grotesque way, and it’s a serial killer of course.

It walked straight out of the fever dreams of Jordan Peterson, when he was in that medically induced coma.

True, but I’ve been a fan since Rumble Fish, he’s just a few years older than me so he was one of my youthful film heroes.

It was extremely disappointing. I actually think he was just stupid, not intentional, but I think someone in that production was fucking intentional.

Encryption is complex stuff; if you had a problem, it was with that. It sounds to me like you’re very ready to use Kubuntu, but maybe need some mentoring for encryption, if that is important to you. Very easy to mess that up if the complex fixes are too much at the moment. Note: at the moment. You learn as you go.

Edit: I don’t use ChatGPT, but I have found the google AI that shows up on search, tends to be pretty good at this sort of Linux system problem. Still might overwhelm you with acronyms and such.

I wonder what Nicolas Cage’s excuse is for Longlegs. Most transphobic piece of shit movie I’ve ever watched.

There is a similar dynamic at play with black people. White people don’t like hearing that something in their mouth signifies differently than something in a BIPOC mouth

But it does. Deal with it.

Yep, 70s Winnipeg kid here, that’s what they taught us to sing.

Nah.

For starters, who will pay for the hosting and bandwidth of a monolithic Reddit knockoff? How do we prevent it from becoming another shitplug of capitalism? (We don’t, it goes exactly the way every other profit-seeking platform has gone)

And, MOST importantly: content moderation is impossible at scale; every Instance operator takes as many users as they can afford, in time and effort as well as money. The operators of monolithic sites end up doing things like hiring people in Africa and making them look at CSAM posts all day, so we don’t have to.

No, giant scale is bad. It was always bad. I have been here since 1992, you are really peddling terrible and ignorant ideas here.

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I know that I have liked everything Waititi that I’ve watched, so I’ll give it a chance on Jellyfin, probably. I loved The Remains Of The Day, in complete defiance of its non-SF nature. Have not read any of the writer’s books but I have one of them on my phone right now, on the recommendation of some random blogger’s post. Not this one.

But boy have I heard some vicious opinions about it.

You almost murdered me just now with a tuna fish sandwich.

With you on everything here, but responding to ask you, please don’t use the term “Epstein Class”.

Reason: good people like you and me read it as “Scumbag Billionaires,” but nazis and nazi-friendly people read it as “Jews”. I have a lot of Jewish friends, I’m talking about people not afraid to call a genocide a genocide here, who do not need any more grief right now.

edit: turns out I was addressing a (now blocked) actual nazi.

Regular middle-class Canadians are the ones that voted for racism the other day.

Moreover, the question in your mind should be why and how our systems have all become so threadbare and lacking in any amount of resilience. Hint: “finding efficiencies”.

But mostly, housing-as-investment-vehicle is straight up evil. There are empty apartments and houses sufficient to give everyone a place to live right now in most large cities. Government could be spending Billions on new, non-commercial public housing right now, and we know they could because they’re handing that over to Venture Capitalists instead.

Housing is a problem for damn sure, but it’s not the immigrants to blame. Nice try, but from a Middle Class Canadian who pays less than $500 per month for his mortgage while his friends live in warzones and pay three times as much for the privilege, you need to stop and look at Capitalism. Over time, you will see this more and more clearly, as your racist approach fails to make society any better, and in fact things just get worse and worse as long as you recommit yourselves to the dead future.

I don’t buy it. If Datacentres were the powersipping butterflies you suggest, why all the new fossil power plants everywhere? I would probably not have given a shit about the datacentres, if not for all the new fossil pollution that is part and parcel of the construction.

Lies, damn lies, and statistics.

I think yall have a massive racism problem that has just been brought to the surface, like a boil for the rest of the world to see on our nation’s face. If you want be angry at someone, be angry at the racists who showed up, and the “good” people who could not be arsed.

But make no mistake, you have humiliated us all. Fuckin’ Alberta.

Let’s blame immigrants for the fact that rich people have been using housing as investment objects for decades. So much easier than facing the facts about Capitalism.

I said Alberta is racist - you are the one who introduced the idea that they did so because they were too dumb to understand what they were voting for. I’m not saying they’re stupid, I’m saying they’re racist, and are on the record as such.