bonkmaykr
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The #HOA of the Fediverse never changes!
Not only are they talking about defederating all #Pixelfed servers, but defederating anyone who talks about Pixelfed in a positive manner.
Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. Whatever qualms you may have with Pixelfed, it is a vast improvement over #Instagram—which has moved moderation services over to Texas, and is therefore subject to laws over there.
In contrast, you can run a Pixelfed server wherever you like, in your own country if you choose, or at least in a place with demonstrable better laws than Texas.
But more than that, we don’t get to choose which Fediverse services prove to be popular. Folks from #TikTok and #Instagram are coming to Pixelfed, not #Mastodon, and we should be welcoming them with open arms.
RE: https://spanner.works/users/bouncinglime/statuses/113856316093137340
@atomicpoet But… they are talking primarily about the dev’s perceived lack of character, not the software per se.
I like the software, it’s a shame that he is the (not so much) benevolent dictator…
@mar They are talking about the software!
That person is literally saying they’ll not only defederate Pixelfed and Loops, but anyone who talks about it in a positive manner. And what’s more, other people are chiming in and saying they agree with the sentiment – folks that I know and interact with too.
And I’m letting everyone know that, whatever they think of @dansup, Pixelfed is still demonstrably better than Instagram.
Did I miss something? Not figuring out where the animosity against #Pixelfed is coming from.
@jeff_clemmons I put a link at the end of my post.
@chkdsk @atomicpoet is it really so hard for them to use neither site?
theres no fuckin "HOA" about this i just dont want a power-hungry capitalist bootlicking anti-union transphobe running a big instance, i think that is reasonable
If you took any "race realist" posts from the furthest dark corners of fedi and just find/replace the races they don't like with men, they would become indistinguishable from @EmmaFaber posts.
The "everything you like is bad" crutch from parents using it as a way to beat down any interest in anything leads to kids rebelling hard when they move out by doing literally anything because "does it make my mom mad? then it's cool" without thinking, or learning how to hide stuff from parents.
The end result is you get the variety of Twitter burnouts you find these days who have no moral compass or ability to ask themselves if what they're doing is a good idea because they have white hot hatred for their controlling parents.
Hell, it survived until the early 00s. I recall news reports of priest going around about Pokemon and Harry Potter being satanic. There's probably some poor kids who couldn't play/read/watch the movie of these because of that. I'd argue the late 90s/early 00s soccer mom stuff and at the end of it, the end of the Jack Thompson crusade, probably were the last vestige of it
But D&D, Pokemon and Harry Potter and violent video games to a certain extent (Although, the "I play M rated games because I'm a mature boy" era really was fucking shit) really truly weren't it
I'd argue being a kid during the "edgy" 90s/00s era was fucking fantastic, but alas
As for Harry Potter and co, I actually learned years ago on the net that there's some level of Christians that are extremely uncomfortable with fictional magic stuff, including Final Fantasy and the likes. I'm talking that I remember there was a Christian lady on gamefaqs saying her husband didn't like FF because of this. I seem to recall some older Christian gaming review site that rated games extremely weirdly based on that kind of stuff too
But you ain't wrong about the family cohesion breaking and ultimately being the big problem
Eventually it led to some changes, most notably it led to a rating system for arcade games like with the ESRB along with the even bigger scandal of the famous 90s hearings. Nobody goes to arcades anymore, but the AAMA for a while was mandating content ratings on new arcade games, so pretty much every arcade game would have the sticker and rating screen.
>The new ones, yeah, I don't understand why they upped the realism instead of going more cartoony, it's really fucking weird and the ultra detailed gorey stuff is indeed distasteful. It should've been silly gory, not realistically gory
The ex-Midway devs never grew out of the mindset of "the more edge, the better". Just look at Blitz: The League, where the developers decided to not only make "brutal" football but add in X-Ray animations of body injuries similar to newer 3d MK games. You know; for shock value. Or the NARC remake where you could "juice" yourself as an example. It didn't matter because ultraviolence didn't get your game banned at Wal-Mart like tits do.
Of course, I'm sure Midway also didn't see that people wanted that more than say; Mortal Kombat with Sportsball, or they were scared of making another disaster of a game nobody wanted like All Pro Football 2k8 (a non-licensed game with nothing going for it except the licenses to the likenesses of some old players).
I believe hearing that EA had an illegal exclusivity on the license and that completely fucked the market?
Then 2k quit making MLB games and there was a void because nobody making a MLB game afterwards did a good job, except for Sony. So what happened next was interesting: MLB forced Sony to make their next MLB games multiplat to keep the license because the only good MLB games were on PlayStation and not Microsoft or Nintendo.
So now the MLB The Show games are on other platforms because the MLB said that they had to be on other consoles or they would no longer be able to make them.
Lately though I heard the next branded NASCAR game is going to be made by the iracing devs, who made Nascar 2003 Season (the famous one).
People like Jack Thompson or Josh Koskoff unironically see video games as training future school shooters; but didn't actually understand any of the subtler effects of gaming. Did the shooter use taped mags? Yeah, that's what Call of Duty let you do, therefore CoD was training the guy to unload on kids. Some kid went on a murder spree? Yeah, he played GTA, that trained him to do it.
It wasn't because of religion. It was because some kid could get inspiration from violent video games, and it went hand in hand with parents just not giving a shit and being tuned out (and other obvious society factors). Josh Koskoff isn't suing Activision for religious reasons, he's suing them because "muh cod makes muh school shooters" and given that he's managed to win lawsuits against a radio host and a gun company, they are actually scared shitless compared to the likes of Wacko Jacko.
There was a lot to be worried about, but the simple and correct answer is that the "jewish propoganda" you speak of was literally just average "occult" themed counter-culture that kids enjoyed because they wanted to be independent. It isn't that deep.
"If I am being further charitable, the FCC and other Fed agencies had basically outlawed real talk about fags and nogs by that point"How so?
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@YeetLibs SHONDUOOHHH
this is scary, but at least he has the attitude to sign a letter ousting RMS, instead of the anonymous people behind this website which looks to me as a character assassination attempt targeted towards him.
and even if this is indeed him, people change over the course of 10 years.
judging by the timeline it was posted, it's irrelevant and didn't have the impact the anonymous people behind it expected it to have. 4 months later, he wasn't cancelled.
@xinayder Oh, cool tactic to defend DeVault huh. No, he hasn't changed in the slightest, If he did then he wouldn't be so obsessed about trying to silence people like Vaxry who just want to code and nothing more. His authoritarian methods and childish whining over people not playing by his rules perfectly reflect that.
There's clear proof given there that he's behind this document, he has defended loli and also has published browser tabs over the years where he has shown such stuff present.
@xinayder Also let's not forget who has started attempts to assassinate creative people like Vaxry and figures who have done a lot towards history of Free software like RMS, so trying to paint DeVault like a victim there is just retarded.
I would rather think of protecting minors from ever getting in touch with this person than trying to silence people down for not having the same opinions. Freedom 0 guarantees them freedom of expression even If I despise Dorsey he's still allowed to speak.
You can argue all you want that cmpwn didn't write The Stallman Report or the screenshotted posts, but the evidence, both hard and circumstantial, all point to him being at least one of the authors if not the sole author, of everything he's accused of putting online. The signing of the report was an opsec failure, not something done out of honesty. He tried to cover it up and still denies being the author.
All of the arguments presented within The Stallman Report are hypocritical at best and utterly fucking laughable at worst, the entire report consisted of "richard said this thing" taken out of context or intentionally misquoted to mean something else. The one thing that Richard actually said that was pretty fucked up, even Drew himself admits in the report he later walked back on, even before he got in trouble with the FSF the first time over it.
@david@pl.dav1d.lol that's just fanon, you could say Sonic is gay because Sonadow even though he dating Amy
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@TrevorGoodchild i love how the government is like "tiktok is propaganda shut it down" and then everyone goes on to a platform that's so much worse
@DrBtc @lewdthewides @1nter4ri @ApexBoomer @TrevorGoodchild
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You naively assume the move happened organically. It doesn't occur to you that the herd was expertly led and corralled in a more adequate, more stringent plantation as intended.
Where is yours from?
I don't understand why everyone is jumping ship to RedNote instead of just using YouTube Shorts after the TikTok ban?
@PurpCat @Forestofenchantment @xianc78 @Zergling_man I always hear YouTubers talking about how their shorts get way more views and you're basically missing out on money if you don't use them
@beardalaxy @azure Zuckerberg is one of the most hated people on the planet left or right.
@xianc78
Because YouTube content is the OPPOSITE of subversive.
Fediblock is gay and retarded. Rejecting tools like block and mute and trying to impose large scale censorship on random people does not achieve the goal it pretends to seek. It is merely a vain statement that wants to incite a mob to join an insane effort to make lots of people disappear so a very personal kind of ideal engineered around mind rape can pretend to triumph. Fediblock is the tool of impotent mass murderers. Fediblock is to genocide what fantasy football is to football.
today on twitter: someone leaked the entirety of the plankton movie
And of course, because diagnosing and fixing this problem isn't hard enough, you have retards in their Soycord server that insist (attachment) Proton compatibility is Embark Studios' responsibility. It is not.
They don't promise Proton support, it's on a hands-off basis. They don't make the APIs. That is the WINE team's job (and valve + similar sponsors).
Game developers hate it when you do this. The hobbyists who make these tools hate it too. Stop. You'll only hurt Linux adoption.
It looks like Drew DeVault came out of hiding and announced his intention to start a sit-in during Jack Dorsey's event at FOSDEM. Sure Dorsey most likely doesn't have our best interests in the FOSS community, but I don't know why he simply doesn't just advocate boycotting the event or the entire convention. You guys were already suggesting that with an event by the president of the OpenMandriva Association after Bryan Lunduke promoted him.
But I rather have these guys do the sit-in if it means that they will forget about the OpenMandriva drama and leave the foundation's president alone.
https://drewdevault.com/2025/01/16/2025-01-16-No-Billionares-at-FOSDEM-please.html
@bonkmaykr I think he attends there every year. It's the biggest FOSS convention in Europe as far as I know, but it was always open-source first, free software second. It was originally called OSDEM until Stallman asked them to change it. They always included "ethically questionable" companies like RedHat and Element in the convention.
If this was really a problem for him he would go to actual free software conventions like Libre Planet, but that is hosted in America, the country that he left because he hates it so much, and it's hosted by the evil Richard Stallman.
@PurpCat Drew DeVault ignores the fact that FOSDEM always had events by not-so-good companies like Canonical, Mozilla, Red Hat, and even companies that also make proprietary software like Google and Oracle.
Judging from the blog post. It's mostly because the project Dorsey is showing is blockchain-based and you know how much Drew DeVault hates anything that has to do with crypto or blockchain in general.
…ok putting the FSF where they're going to have to choose between supporting Drew DeVault or Jack Dorsey is *extremely* funny
https://battlepenguin.com/tech/facebook-is-openly-hostile-to-smaller-platforms/
Remember that brief moment in time when everyone was going to bum rush Area 51, and then the US Military was like, “If you try that, you’re going to get shot?”
And then everyone promptly forgot about it?
once upon a time I went to some furry cons
they were a great prediction of where the nerd sphere would go
@WALFTEAM@outerheaven.club well anime cons aren't even as bad despite the tourists/tumblrtards.
AC 2013 and FWA 2018 were night and day as even in 2018 the decay was setting in hard (and I mean they were showing a documentary about some shut-in furry killing himself, played straight, many tourists and Chris Chan lookalikes, etc.) It's worse now given that there's drama in con circles all the time.
@branman65@poa.st @WALFTEAM@outerheaven.club https://bretthanover.com/rukus/ His WikiFur page reads like "Here lies Beavis he never scored"
https://web.archive.org/web/20240401072823/https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Rukus
@branman65@poa.st @WALFTEAM@outerheaven.club so i'm at a furry con and they're talking about this movie being screened and i look up the premise and "wow this is like the kind of shit someone would make as a joke, a movie about a loser furry who kills himself when he gets burnt out of gooning all day"
@branman65@poa.st @WALFTEAM@outerheaven.club though it'd be better if someone made something like the Gothic King Cobra documentary or a parody of this about furries, just an hour in the life of a typical shut-in NEET furry whose entire daily routine is waking up to larp as an animal and mindlessly RP online as his friend group consists of sketchier and sketchier losers.
https://archive.org/details/html5-watch-v-CvhchxHUCA0-1/watchv%3DCvhchxHUCA0-1.webm
@branman65@poa.st @WALFTEAM@outerheaven.club >screened at calarts
lol
@branman65@poa.st @WALFTEAM@outerheaven.club "the fandom" is a really shit documentary too I tried to watch it and it was bad
"people who don't like the direction of the fandom are nazis"
https://youtu.be/iv0QaTW3kEY
@branman65@poa.st @WALFTEAM@outerheaven.club it's a good metaphor for the current state of the fandom: endless trash
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@WALFTEAM@outerheaven.club he became a furry later btw
They could just release APK's.
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