Sounds like a great opportunity to promote the Linux community and let the different OS shine.

I don’t use any meta software and I haven’t heard anything about this. So clearly something is working. I will read this. Thanks for sharing!

Right!! How insulting.

Totally agree with wanting more beauty spaces.

My nails are taking a break from polish 🫣, so nothing worth showing for now.

Beautiful photography!!

How do you like PixelFed?

I’m in the process of establishing a nonprofit. I know I’ll have to manage the usual social media sites, but I’m looking at starting accounts on alternatives too.

Sinclair Lewis said “When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”

It’s hard to feel like me as a singular person can do much is this ocean of horrifying things. I even find my kindness and empathy wearing thin - all in the name of “they voted for this crap and now I will be dragged along”.

I remind myself to be kind, stand up for what is right, and do what I can. Which mostly involves contacting my congress people and representatives to also do the right thing for the people.

Every day is terrifying. Stay safe.

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It is very difficult to motivate people to move to a different platform.

Meta continues to do shitty things. I deleted all my accounts 10 years ago because of said shitty things. The list of shitty things keeps growing.

I can try to be optimistic about the Streisand effect. But it would have to be towards positive experience with pixelfed. Enough people would need to move for it to not feel empty. Sort of like BlueSky during the election. Enough people frustrated with twitter, and (most importantly) see enough people, including celebrities, politicians and other influencers migrate to make it worth checking out.

Edit to add: I very much would love to witness the downfall of meta and twitter. We need these alternatives. And as much as people hate commercialization, all of these alternative spaces need some marketing to make them viable.

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This is spot on. And honestly, public service workers make so little compared to industry, it really doesn’t matter if they’re from a wealthy family or not - if they (public workers) have student loans, the forgiveness is deserved.

10 years can be difficult to get. I’ve known people who work for non-profits for 5 years or more, only to be let go because grant money was drying up.

Yooooooo! I love that. I’ll admit, if Subaru releases a “Baja” like car again, I’d be the first one to buy it.

Thanks for sharing!

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And it reads like chatGPT generated text.

Wool socks are superior though.

And you can always stuff hand warmers in the socks if you’re desperate for warmth. Just don’t burn your feet.

This is one of the reasons I donate to The Satanic Temple. I really hope they pursue something like needing to display all religious texts in classrooms like their tenets.

I grew up Lutheran, which is basically the closest to being catholic without being catholic.

I had a great Sunday school teacher who let us question religion and all the stupid things in it.

As I get older, I feel more like an atheist. Church has become nut bags, and I don’t want to waste my time being lectured when I already live a good life.

I follow some pagan celebrations. I also donate to The Satanic Temple.

It does make sense. China can monitor the account for intel to squash any non-desirable gatherings.

Agreed! It blocks ads and malware while costing advertisers a ton. I’d love to see this go more mainstream and see all the panic by costing advertisers money without having people buy anything.

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When the people are disappeared for showing the slightest discontent to their government, it’s no surprise anything you read in the news wouldn’t be trustworthy.

I doubt that this survey method would show a true result too.