Why would he? Dems would make pious noises about “moving forward”, “bringing the country together”, and “reaching across the aisle”.

I mean it like, it’s a slow progression that builds on other interests, rather than your average person deciding suddenly to self-host. And it’s not that I think it is or isn’t worthwhile, I just have a different idea about what “we” are trying to accomplish. If your priority is to grow the userbase of one particular community or project, then I can see why you would want to have “presence” on corporate platforms. I still think it warrants an examination of the principles of self-hosting and consideration of “alternative” platforms.

If a little light sarcasm is incivility to you, then you’re in for a real struggle. I don’t know how most people end up self-hosting but I suspect it’s more of an organic process. For me, jeez… I can probably trace it back to using StumbleUpon browser extension, hearing about Linux, then installing it as a way to avoid studying for exams. Once I was using Linux on my computer, I suppose self-hosting was inevitable. Where did I get the info? Wherever I could find it.

None of that matters.

The ballot box is what brought us here. Every election for decades has resulted in more cops and more surveillance.

Israel has a “right to exist” the same way Rhodesia, Belgian Congo or Nazi Germany did.

I’m in the same boat, but I’m starting to look around again. I’m curious about Wayland, so I started looking at Debian KDE last night, but I get hung up on choosing between stable, testing or unstable. Also the download page wasn’t working for me.

Do you know what a hyperlink is? You just click on it and it takes you to Lemmy. You sign up, pretty much the same way you have done for every other service you have ever used. What are we doing here? Are we not trying to build alternatives to the corpo-surveillance hellscape that the internet has become? Give users a little more credit, and a little more incentive. Otherwise, you’re sending mixed messages when you offer a way to get their photos away from google or something, but you force them to use fucking Discord for support.

Fuck you Mike Johnson. Meet me outside. I’ll fight you for free.

My wife just transited (with US passport) through Canada end route to Asia. She had to go through what you’re describing of China.

Checks out.

That is so regressive.

In how many of these countries is Chinese propaganda more pervasive than US propaganda? The US has Hollywood, pop music and the fucking English language going for it. Seems more likely that: A. China makes all the products everyone uses, and B. Doesn’t go all around the world murdering people.

Jesus Christ.

Do you work in the public sector?

You can find unions that you can join as an individual in circumstances like yours. The one that comes to my mind is the IWW.

Yeah, I learned cursive too, but I think it’s weird to see anyone younger than boomers using it.

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“Your money or your life.”

Expendable for progress profits.