I still too socialist. better make the cars have to drive around in pointless circles

I mean even if it made them more money to platform confirmed shitheads, it’s still the wrong thing to do. Like ethically. It doesn’t also have to be wrong from a business or even legal perspective.

If a company can’t take that kind of stand I don’t want anything to do with them.

I am actually kind of thrilled that I have substack subscriptions, including paid, that I can pull as my little protest to this platform. Luckily my paid subscriptions have both confirmed that they’re ditching substack as well, so my support will follow them wherever they land.

I really hope that substack lets writers have access to their email lists, so they can easily take them with them.

If a Man cannot tear a page
from the marshmallow and burn it -
then he cannot be a scientist

so true 😔

pretty much

It did? On desktop browser it looks like it has it

I basically only go there when DDG hasn’t indexed the Stack Exchange/Overflow Q&A I’m looking for.

Also decentralized SE/SO when?

Heh, cool.

Yeah I’ve seen this happen in real time. Maybe a little slower, but still inexorably.

no no it’s authentic it’s great

Can’t believe no one’s said spritz of lemon juice yet. That was my go to as a kid.

keep…going

no it’s good I like it
keep playing

ahah big boba better bring a big straw 😘

This makes me uncomfortable.

I’m going into the den of racists this year, wish me luck

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Python programmer: They’re the same picture

How do you know about DW?

I think the fediverse in general has a better chance because it’s built on an anti-corporate philosophy, from the software, maintainers, admins, moderators, and much of the community (though increasingly less so, as it becomes more popular).

If you have a problem with corporate influence on Reddit, then your ability to act on it ends with your subreddit’s moderators. To the admins and owners of reddit, that kind of influence is a feature.

Hell they can even monetize it, bake it right into the DNA of the back-end, give the corps a nice little API to poll, maybe some webhooks…

That is not something I see happening on the fediverse as long as its open source and run by the community.

What’s wrong with Discourse? I ran a server during college for a couple of buddies and it was totally owned and operated by us, no corpos or anything. It’s just like phpbb or any other forum software AFAIK.

Proof the system works right here.