And similarly why you find a lot of Caucasians with Mandarin script tattooed on their skin. It’s cool, they like the meaning, and they don’t have to be Confucian or whatever
it is, their own new one with blackjack and hookers and more Python, less Rust
Some of us Atheists unironically wear religious stuff because it looks stylish, because the words sound cool, or because we like and appreciate the fandom of a particular story, even if we realize people made it all up. I can wear Dr Who swag for the same reasons.
Lemmy is better because there are open standards and alternate servers.
Humans are mostly all the same; incentives pervert or ennoble us.
Centralized power and monetary incentive tend to the former
state murdered aaron
I want a President do declare Aaron Swartz Day a day of national mourning and shame, with hopeful reflection on the immense value of open source & creative commons. Maybe with a public investment in open source commons like browser or mobile OS.
Yes this is my hobby horse and I am riding it
which cancer is worse
all of them, esp when we have a cure (Fedi/OpenSource)
Centralized, corporate information sources suck
Fedi FTW
“Floppy disks” were 8 inches a side in my youth and went in the minicomputer
Then along came Newfangled desktop PCs with their 5.25" floppies
Tom Bombadil remembers first acorn and first rain drop
LOL I’ve been on super niche blockchain based socials with dozens of active users … and still had advertising spam for penis pills and random mattress stores.
As for Reddit, browse it read only to save your sanity via a libreddit instance
If you call the bottom picture a “Data Lake” you can IPO and walk away with millions
I browse Reddit on redlib instances. NO ADS
correct but it is ActivityPub so it interoperates, you can subscribe to Lemmy communities via PieFed