Probably the most mindless!

I see your meaning. I equate talk of rights more with legal proceedings, but absolutely you can’t have safety/survival without your rights being recognised.

Not just rights but survival. For many it’s existential. We have some history to cross-reference the next steps, if left unapposed.

What if the monarchy, with all their power, does nothing to alleviate your abysmal working conditions, and indeed profits from your suffering? What if the monarchy responds to your peaceful petition by, say, butchering your procession in the hundreds?

That’s what I love about the fediverse. Sure, the huge instances will struggle to maintain their identity, but new instances can be spun up for approx $15/mo USD. Pass the hat around to 100 people and you can easily cover that.

Also instances do not have to please everyone, and they don’t have to push ads, or worry about being a friendly corp playground, so they can just tell people who don’t fit the vibe to fuck right off.

I remember just feeling cool for using something different than everyone else.

Kind of uncomfortable how my other tech choices map onto this logic. Linux, vim, fediverse, … Am I a dickhead?

They need to YouTube a few meditation videos so they can become experts in mindfulness and not worry about all that /s

Rofl. Okay, this is a good post to stop scrolling on. Thank you for sharing

Yeah this is more my take. The sign up process is already pretty smooth. Sure some of the theory or technicals might be complicated, but is a centralized platform that has secret algorithms to keep you engaged and push content, some of which may or may not be promoted invisibly you can’t always tell – is that really less complicated? /rq

Like if you type in “join lemmy” or “join mastodon” or hell even “join fediverse” in any search engine, the first result is a website briefly describing the concept and giving your some choices of servers to sign up at.

I agree that promoting the fediverse generally kind of doesn’t make sense. People join communities, not web protocols.

I wonder if we shouldn’t talk so much about “the fediverse” as we do about individual instances, because that’s what people actually join. They get the rest of the fediverse for free, but their home server will always be home. Just like with reddit back in the day, how I may not have identified much with the reddit overculture, I did love some of its communities.

Like look at the difference between the slrpnk communities, and the programming.dev communities. That’s something to be celebrated, like, come join this server - look at all the cool things we’re doing!

Desire paths

I have an interview coming up for a job that pays twice as much and looks to be about as much work as I do now. I hope I get it. I think that my departure from this place will cause a hell of a fire. Maybe if I’d have got that promotion I’d been hinting at for some time, I wouldn’t have updated my resume. But here we are. I am no longer gruntled.

Good luck!

And yep, I know exactly what you mean. A while ago I asked for 50k and remote, and boss jerked me around for months on it - moving goalposts, etc. When lo and behold, as soon as I put in my resignation they immediately offered me what I wanted, but of course by then I already had a much better offer in hand.

Whereas, as you know, if we’d been properly valued in the first place, we probably wouldn’t have been looking for a different jobs in the first place.

I feel like that’s one of the reasons for back to the office bullshit - being in an office makes it harder to interview for jobs.

Yeah honestly cubes were hell, but still nothing compared to an open office. Especially a well lit ““vibrant”” one.

Good for socialising. Absolute shit for actually working.

For 8 years I tried. Finally I got my chance when a global pandemic ravaged my planet. Now they’re trying to put me back in.

True but there are still differences and while individual impacts are small, like voting, it still matters which bad choice you choose.

I do this. I also have a kind of system to mark where on the page I’m at, depending on which way the receipt is facing / oriented.

Me whenever lose my bookmark thinking it’s the worst thing to happen to me, my book is ruined, and then I find my exact spot in 6.4 seconds.

It’s the “someone is wrong on the internet” one

I’m changing my answer. I meant to “it has” so everyone please reread my comment now, with this new interpretation in mind. Thank’s.

Ah this is a classic language misunderstanding. “Isn’t necessarily” means “possibly not [thing]” or “doesn’t have to be” or “may or may not be” but doesn’t have much bearing on probabilities.

That’s how people usually use that term in English anyway.

EDIT sorry didn’t mean to dogpile. I just saw that a couple other people already replied.