Oh neat!! I thought that idea had been shot down, that’s cool to hear

Thanks for letting me know :) Hope you have a lovely day

That’s a strange take… But even if that logic follows, it’s pretty disingenuous to suggest that’s what ALL users want, and Eugene is the sole opposition. You and I may want global search, but lots of Mastodon users actively loathe the idea.

Personally I think it’d be a better platform for it, but I get why there are folks who don’t like the idea. I also wish they’d implement quoting people, but again, I understand why some folks don’t like that idea. Downvotes don’t really make sense on microblogging to me.

That’s certainly a cool thought!

As someone who doesn’t follow this stuff closely, I appreciate the clarification!

Its nice to hear from someone with more hands on experience. Hope you have a good one :)

Man, I completely forgot about that. That’s honestly wild to think about in retrospect…

They only work if you organize, and the only white folks with guns who have organized aren’t exactly experiencing state violence right now.

They also probably have more potential to protect you from violence that doesn’t come from the state. Like, for instance, the kind that comes from those white folks who organized, and have lots of guns.

A Frenchman? Picking a British instance?? Your ancestors would be ashamed >.> /j

Have a good one, much love from the US (sorry we elected a fascist, I’m sure that’ll suck for pretty much the whole planet 🙃)

You’re British 🤷‍♂️ /j

It seems unnecessarily hostile to go around insulting people unpropted, but if that’s the way you wanna participate in and shape the culture of the fediverse I guess that’s your perogative

While that is a very fair point, I do think the guns are probably still making it harder 😅

Made it easier for them to justify the way they’ve gone about their oppression, but the alternative if no one could protect themselves hardly seems like a better outcome

That’s true, but one of the biggest hallmarks of fascism is framing a minority population (or several) as the villains responsible for all that ails the nation, and often times there’s no one to stand up for them save for themselves, ultimately resulting in that old addage:

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

If you’re a minority and no one will protect you, it’s important to consider what means you might have of protecting yourself, and other minorities. If you’re willing to stand up for one another, their safety is yours, and yours is theirs.

You’re definitely not wrong though. I just think it’s perhaps especially important for vulnerable populations

Thats very true. And the start of stricter gun laws in California was under Ronald Regan when he was governor, in response to groups like the black panthers arming themselves

Honestly I feel like a fair part of the problem is just that very few resources for helping people pick an instance are any good. And they’re especially important for a service like Friendica, where if my memory serves, you don’t see activity on the server when you go to their page until after you’ve signed up, so there is no preview of the culture

I think the tools for picking an instance for most fediverse platforms really need to be improved.

I’d love to also see instance reviews, which is a fundamentally flawed concept that could easily be abused, but would still be massively valuable to people in navigating the Fediverse

I know people hate bots because they can sometimes be irritating, or pass themselves off as people, but there are a lot of useful functionality they can implement, or use cases where they make sense

It’s always cool to see people working on fediverse stuff!

I really like the far right purple one! This is a really neat post ☺️

Rip. Sending hugs and blankets from afar! Drink lots of fluids!

Something about this one really makes me happy ☺️

God damn, fuckin mark it nsfw for christ’s sake 😅

Meant to reply to this but it got burried-

Oh I fully just gave up 😅 the reason I didn’t get it figured out is cause I didn’t stick with it lol. My previous laptop had broken and I decided I wanted to just go ahead and be up and running on the replacement rather than tinkering with void setup. I might come back to it at some point, but it’s definitely beyond my competency. Especially since ideally I’d like to have luks encryption, which I know you can do, but not from the more basic install process if I remember right.

Network manager (so I could use GNOME settings to change networks), and audio through pipewire were the two remaining things. I gave setting up pipewire a try following a YouTube tutorial, but it didn’t work properly, and at that point I decided I just wanted to have a working laptop again after a couple weeks without. But I did learn a bunch! and got a lot more comfortable with the command line!

Package kit is what allows graphical software stores or graphical package managers to integrate with the native package manager backend if I understand right. I’d miss being able to browse native packages along side flatpaks.

I found that fork, but yeah I don’t think it works. There were also one or two graphical software stores specifically for xbps, but I don’t recall if they’re still maintained, and I don’t think there was a GTK option. Part of me desperately hopes someone will make a simple distro based on void that functions as a customized install, kinda like spiral linux or gecko linux, for debian and opensuse. Until then, I know that my perfect distro might be out there, if I can just successfully get everything initally set up 🥲

Maybe I’ll make an IRL linux friend I’m close enough to harass into helping me with it at some point lol. Hope you have a lovely day!

Meant to reply to this but it got burried in my inbox-

Im glad you got value out of it, it’s a subject I care a lot about as someone who’s fairly mentally ill and tries to hold myself to a high standard in how I engage with people.

Hope you have a good one :)

They’re quarters. I told people as much in the same thread they’re referencing, because someone very politely made the same point that you are, that it’s not good to store condoms in your wallet. They just didn’t bother to read the multitude of different times I said they were quarters in the comments.

They’re for getting a cart at Aldi when I go grocery shopping.