He’s calling them rapists because they have the email domain rape.lol, and fascists because they have hitler.rocks. The other side says “They were edgy 4channers 10yr ago when they started.”

My argument is “well you make it so hard to get a riseup acct which is the leftist equivalent, cock.li is the closest many of us could get.”

Fedora KDE here.

Slackware.

Tbf, some people want that. I prefer my instance which federates with anyone willing making you choose what to block yourself (aside from the reactionary instances that don’t like that we don’t block their enemy instances by default so they block ours, of course), but not just anyone can join my instance, so I can’t recommend that unless they qualify. If you have a better general instance I can recommend instead of .social I’ll definitely check it out!

Tbf the internet is entirely comprised of like 6 websites if you ask the average Joe, and I’m damn inclined to agree as someone who remembers webrings fondly and misses geocities (it’s like the bell curve meme lol, and btw yes I know about neocities I’m just sleeping on it).

But I agree, if they can email they can mastodon, it’s the same shit.

Evidentially mastodon makes it hard to find people on purpose unless you know their name “to stop harassment” I’m told, except I’m not sure how it does that at all and it just makes it harder to use the damn platform. That’s my one real complaint about mastodon.

I’m sorry if it wasn’t clear, but that was a joke. I am indeed aware of the existence of other email services.

Like Mastodon.social? Afaik it has been around since the beginning and is basically the “default” server unless you’re a “hacker” and you’re on infosec.pub or whatever, an edgy 4channer and you’re on poa.st, a SubGenius on “Bob’s” server dobbs.town, or one of the many pervert servers, or one of the asain servers I can’t read, but if you’re on one of those (for instance dobbs.town) you’re joining dobbs.town and mastodon is just there incidentally. Anyone else can just use .social and call it a day until they find out they’re really into plants.space or some specific thing.

Hell all the people I’ve gotten on masto that’s how I did it, “Ok make an acct on mastodon.social, great now lemme follow you what’s your name? Cool, see there I am! Oh I’m not on mastodon.social, I’m on dobbs.town, but we can still communicate like how I email your gmail from my protonmail, is normal. Now, there’s some servers you’re gonna want to block…” I don’t even tell them about federation until they’re already there, unless I KNOW the server they’ll want (like when I recommended my Discordian friend hop on discordian.social instead of mastodon.social.)

The real kicker is that none of their precious celebs they follow are on there, as you mention. The weirdos I talk to don’t care about that so it works out for me lol.

I honestly don’t get the whole “picking an instance is hard” thing, especially with masto. “Just use the default instance, mastodon.social, unless you have a reason not to,” bang problem solved. Then it’d become a larger point of failure but if it went down “well now that you sorta understand it make an acct on the server most of your follows were on,” bang 'nother problem solved.

Hell I have been diagnosed with executive function disorders and I can figure it out, it’s not as hard as people pretend, we’ve all done it with email since like '95. “It’s hard” is just twitter/bluesky propaganda!

On Mastodon, you must pick an instance, for some weird “federation” tech reason, whatever that means;

On email, you must pick a server, for some weird “server” reason, whatever that means;

It’s literally no different than deciding “should I go with Gmail or hotmail msn yahoo” fuck ok I guess there really is only one email provider now. Huh.

After All, Why Not? Why Shouldn’t I Keep It?

Unrelated but your Uname reminds me of a song I haven’t heard in forever, Love In A Trashcan by The Raveonettes.

…aussies have biscuits named after (the wagon route, but…) the video game that popularized the phrase “You have died of dysentery?” Odd choice.

I mean, it’s not like nudes of Melania are hard to find, you can just google them, she posed nude for a magazine that was published it’s not like they robbed her safety deposit box or whatever.

(I know you’re joking but) “Opasno” - “It’s dangerous.”

I know you said no questions, but how many snails are in a mile?

Superman can’t vote, he’s an illegal (literal) alien!

55 lbs of 00 flour in the chest freezer, still have about 25lbs of AP flour in there

Mmhmm, 12ga and xm855 “flour,” got it.

The coolest part about the framework is the fixability. I’ll be able to run on 16gb of DDR5 until DDR6 becomes the hot new thing, at which time I’ll get 32gb of ddr5 on sale and be set set for another good while, and during all that if anything breaks on it I can get the parts cheap enough and do the repair myself easily. Then maybe in like idk 15yr or so if framework is still around I can buy a new mobo/ram and maybe screen to slap in that bad boy and now I have the laptop of Theseus that’ll keep trucking until I repeat the cycle.

Yeah someone like me, who for the longest couldn’t remember what “mcbullshit” name they had for the burger I wanted, so I ordered “two of those dollar burgers” until they raised the price and I had to learn the word “McDouble,” ugh lol.

Maybe it’s someone who just absolutely can’t be bothered, like “let me get one of those whoppers or whatever the fuck, it’s all the same.”