Yeah. I’ll switch to an instance that is defederated from Threads, if mine doesn’t.
I left Meta’s other properties to avoid state sponsored hate speech. I won’t use a platform that gives hate speech a platform.
I don’t need to wait to know if Meta will do that. I already know.
“… And the person doesn’t even know…” This dude is bad at this.
Y’all, if you work in my field and I buy you lunch, it’s because I’m trying to hire you.
But you won’t have to wonder. I’ll start the conversation with something subtle, like “I’m buying today because I’m trying to hire you.”
It…uh…works. Really well. Stay tuned for more insightful tips, I guess.
If you get lucky enough to get the delivery driver who just signs that shit with a scribble for you, treasure them.
I’ve seen this kind of door in a place where the space was originally unfinished attic (with only ladder access), and the door was cut through the wall and the space finished later.
Based on my experience with venture capital, I’m not convinced venture capital has ever produced anything worthwhile.
That’s right.
But only because “Vim vs Emacs” is a technically a religious holy war.
I’m a big fan of paying the people who make things for me.
But digital piracy is the only thing keeping archive copies of obscure media around today. Even libraries aren’t keeping up. Plenty of media creators have revived their thing that found an audience after decades forgotten - through piracy, and only successfully revived it thanks to archivist pirates, since they had thrown that thing away.
It’s not black and white.
Patronage funding, early access, streamlined delivery, and white glove support are the funding models that are working for creatives today.
“Ronald Reagan, the actor?!”
I’ve seen this but with a final message of “Sorry, that password is already in use by user about2getOwned@gmail.com.”
Any movie over 2 hours this automatically on my “I’ll catch it on streaming later” list.
Let’s not defederate from every corporate player. Some of them can probably respect reasonable rules of civility.
But fuck Meta. We already know how this plays out.
We know there’s a huge wave of hatred and misinformation incoming. We’ve seen it on their other platforms.