Very very interesting, and stupid

If this gets any worse we’re going to have to learn that space aliens are UHC customers.

I made a twitter account last week for a business and it will not show me anything except Elon and Trump stuff even though I keep clicking see less/mute/block etc. It’s truly insane over there now, even besides just the way it works.

I used my phone carrier email, but I haven’t actually used pixelfed since verifying. Not sure if there’s anything there for me.

I like the tidy forum format and experience that Reddit/lemmy brings. My brain has never been able to make sense of how to benefit from twitter, mastodon, Instagram, tiktok, etc.

I was able to confirm that sdf’s pixelfed will send and confirm emails, by using a different email provider other than Gmail.

My Gmail account will absolutely not show me any emails from sdf pixelfed, so I just changed my pixelfed email to my phone number @ my carriers email/sms bridge domain, and that let me confirm my account.

In Gmail? I looked all over my spam, couldn’t find it anywhere :/

How many years?

The amount of utility I accidentally extract from my phone over the course of a day on one charge is pretty incredible.

The weirdest thing about a cybertruck bomb is that the world has become so shit that it’s not even interesting. Like, I just cannot care because every day something insane happens.

That’s the real fucking signal IMO.

Interrupt your habits.

• Uninstall the app, if you use that.
• Log out in your browser.
• If you use ublockorigin, add reddit.com to the custom block list
• Use a password manager, change your password to something you can’t remember. Then in your password manager, put a prefix on it like (take-a-break), so you have to go through the hassle of editing it to log in.

You don’t need to be up to the minute or even the day for most of your interests, you can catch up when you have time to do so intentionally.

Interruptions cause you to slow down and give your will power a moment to catch up and intervene.

That is my take.

The delusion of grandeur I might suffer would be something like people foster such a strong culture of cooperation and mutual aid that state government operations and programs become obsolete.

That’s a north star. Something to aim for as a concept. But of course we won’t ever land a rocket ship on the actual North Star.

I think like any other political or philosophical view, this is one of those things where you will get one unique answer per each anarchist you ask.

Speaking personally, I think philosophies should be used as tools, and as the best tool for a job.

To me, anarchism means disregarding established authority and working together to achieve whatever a goal is. Ideally cooperatively. Some groups will perform well at this and some will not. Some will perform better under a more traditional organized structure.

I don’t want to subjugate people with anarchist dogma. I want to help people learn to trust themselves and to cooperate. And I want to get better at it myself.

Same as anarchism.

Lots of people valuing self reliance and care for others without regard for our existing leaders and systems. There just happens to also be systems of governments around.

You can put a date in your calendar to remember

Everyone’s different, but I come here for a quick casual reprieve from my day to day. Sometimes a more involved post or conversation will capture me, but the stars have to align. Right mood, right amount of free time (or lack of awareness of unfree time), right subject matter, presentation, etc.

I like the idea of engaging in a sophisticated way, but social media taking a back seat is how I need my life to be, usually.

That said, if you’re creating content, do it for the love of the game. You’re making a contribution to a movement separately from social media itself.

Hey thanks for the deep context & lore, that was refreshingly orienting!

I’m ok with continuing to talk to people who aren’t ready or willing to understand that.

I’m not sure if I want Google to be the ones to do that. Ideally there would be some involvement from a proper standardization body like ITU.

But in my shallow understanding of RCS, it seems like a good candidate. I thought I read that Apple was starting to roll it out this year…

Looks like it doesn’t do RCS

Good thing it’s a wiki!