Mastodon is just too confusing for the average person

You’re mistaking motivation for ability. If you understand email, you can understand Mastodon.

There were Nazis on X for years before this. They’re leaving because Trump won.

Because you hate Palestine?

They think that the problem is Musk, because he’s the proximate cause. You can’t expect people who are uneducated about this stuff to make a systemic analysis, research decentralized alternatives, and then decide to go to Mastodon or whatever.

If they were that educated on the issue, they would’ve left X a long time ago.

We don’t know how many of those are bots.

They said they have everything.

PrObLeMaTiC

Sadly, I think this is a much older, non-AI person who thinks that they’re funny.

My favorite part of this:

…Collins said that “part of the reason we did bought InfoWars is because people on Bluesky told us it would be funny to buy InfoWars” adding that “those people were right” this “is the funniest thing that has ever happened”.

There’s this amazing invention; it’s called “wash your vegetables”.

You’re going to have to explain this convoluted logic to your grandchildren when they ask you why you voted for genocide.

The dude’s name is Israel Katz. That’s like having an official in the US government named America Jones.

So, what do you think is happening in Palestine? In Lebanon?

Really? There aren’t updates with new features that you look forward to? Ever?

Garuda. It’s an Arch derivative that creates a snapshot of your system every time you update. That way, if the update breaks something, you can just roll your system back to the last working snapshot.

If you don’t like it, don’t use fork Ventoy.

Where did I say that I wasn’t going to vote? I’m voting Green. If there’s a good Democrat running for Congress, I’ll vote for them, too. This isn’t complicated.

I live in a blue state. Using that same logic, my vote for a Democrat is a wasted vote, because my state is going to go blue whether I vote for them or not.

I read a biography of Stallman several years ago. The whole free software movement was an attempt to preserve the early hacker culture where everybody freely swapped code. So, Stallman didn’t really “invent” FOSS; he just codified that early hacker ethos.

What was minix then? A non FOSS version?

It wasn’t FOSS, but then neither was Linux originally.