What’s wrong with Discourse? I ran a server during college for a couple of buddies and it was totally owned and operated by us, no corpos or anything. It’s just like phpbb or any other forum software AFAIK.

Proof the system works right here.

I can understand this perspective: wanting to spread the gospel of federation, etc.

But I’m starting to come around to the realization that the growth mindset is rotten. It’s what leads to these big centralized/unified platforms that concede on their core in order to reach a wider audience.

I can’t blame corpos for conceding away all identity, because engagement is how they make money, but what’s our excuse?

These aren’t refugees. They’re free to make a lemmy or masto or whatever account any time they want. We don’t have a problem with most of the people. It’s the platform, and all the fucking out and proud racists who are on it.

My grandma who owned a diner used to say the same thing, but about cops

Well it was

Certainly people must ask for “pints” though and if the server brings them a drink, I would take that as confirmation that they are tacitly serving pints.

can also confirm that Guinness makes an awful Android launcher, like trust me don’t even try it

I mean maybe! Legitimately worrying.

I’m fine with dynamic difficulty, if it’s something that the designers bake into the game, which is already done in many cases.

Not American, but I assume it’s wrong in some subtle and hilarious way?

Wow that’s really clever.

Love me some Steven Pinker. Should probably read one of his books. Does he do the reading of the audio books, does anyone know? He has lovely diction.

This is what I dislike about most historical dramas. They focus almost entirely on the pampered (thought no doubt dramatic) lives of the rich and privileged, and lettered, ignoring the great majority of humanity that 1) were engaged every day with the drama of survival, 2) did all of the labour that allowed for those frilly few to write their letters all day.

EDIT: I write from the comfort of my home office on break at my WFH job… >_>

Obligatory Office Space “What would you do if you had a million dollars?” link

E: fix url EE: pls stay fixed

Thanks, I’ve got a bit of the ol face blindness

I think the issue is that on most people’s feeds, the vast, vast majority of the content that they see would be from the @threads “instance.” Think of how salty people get about the size of mastodon.social or lemmy.world are compared to other instances, and multiply that along with the threat of a poison pill in the form of corporate embrasure.

Culturally, the fedi is pretty anti-corporate, so a lot of members are suspicious of centralization / partnership with corporate entities. Though this lens, I think the objections make total sense.

savage

https://programming.dev/c/programmer_humor is leaking.

They’re both standard for the format of dates and times, like 2023-12-13 15:52:21. I guess one of them isn’t free, though? TIL.

wtf what is that gross

There is an adapter, buttt yeah I would really miss being able to just plug in a pair of headphones.