edgerunneralexis

joined 1 year ago

Concerns about cultural changes from an influx of ten times the users the entire Fediverse currently has from a platform that is known for having a particularly toxic, algorithm-poisoned userbase aren't specious or something you can ignore — even if the fears are "vague" in some sense they're very valid.

I'd argue that's what Gecko is tbh

Yeah I really don't want Meta to federate with us. They have enough users to completely drown the mostly positive, thoughtful, and inclusive community we've built so far with the toxic algorithm brain rotted right wing zombie army that makes up most of their user base. I have such a happy little community on my instance and my little sublemmy rn and I dont want it to be swamped 😭

No, I was pointing out that it's dropped significantly for Democrats too, and the overall point is that we can't rely on society as a whole to do/believe what's right and protect us.

shortly before his writing style was brought into the political mainstream in the 2016 presidential election.

Omg lmao

[–] edgerunneralexis@dataterm.digital 34 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Key info:

Only 41% of Republicans say gay or lesbian relations are morally acceptable, according to Gallup. That is a 15% drop from 2022, the largest single-year change since Gallup began asking the question. Democratic approval also fell from 85% to 79%.

I've always said that ultimately the only people we can rely on are ourselves, the queer community.

[–] edgerunneralexis@dataterm.digital 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What in the god damn

I read Great North Road and Pandora's Star, and they were both pretty damn good, although not what I've been looking for lately in my fiction. I really need to pick up Judas Unchained at some point and actually finish the commonwealth saga, but it's been about three and a half years now that I've been putting it off, so I feel like at this point I'm going to have to reread Pandora's Star to know what's going on lol

Yeah I'm hosting a video streaming service, a Discord clone, a CMS, git web, and my blog on a $120 ThinkCentre (4 cores, 8GB RAM, 1TB SAMSUNG SSD) in my home, and it works wonderfully. Basically no upkeep costs, the extra electricity used is not even noticeable.

[–] edgerunneralexis@dataterm.digital 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

People always wonder at my skill in picking up unfamiliar UIs, and its always just that I explore the interface thoroughly and press every likely-looking button

Yup, you're exactly right with your analysis. They're pulling typical tankie BS ironically.

Yeah when I found out about the Fairphone originally I was extremely excited and really wanted one for my next phone, but I use GrapheneOS my pixel right now so I figure I just check why it doesn't support it and sure enough I found this stuff :(

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