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  • I think about this often. Follow me here because this may seem convoluted but I don’t have a better way of explaining it out loud. These are just my two cents.

    There is a very consistent “power fantasy” that is delivered to men from early childhood. There is a core logical fallacy to all these power fantasies tied directly to their gender which is essentially a birthright to power.

    The harsh reality is that there are no gender based birthrights to power IRL.

    Instead of truly observing power dynamics, they create a coagulated malformed response which is to construct the thing they were promised (power by birthright). “Manosphere” content provides a framework of loop holes and logical fallacies to get them closer to the right to obtain power simply via subscription. The subscription process is mostly performative often via mimicry aligned role models. This aligns extremely well with fascist agendas and is easily exploited.

    I’ve seen this manifest in weird arguments like “Women only have rights because Men give it to them” as if it’s some sort of kindness or a handicap in a sport to award others with basic rights.

    Its all very gross





  • I am only tangentially aware what’s going with the developments so far in the developer community. I’m thinking about it and so I’m going back to how I got here from Reddit myself. These are just my two cents.

    There some realities to deal with which are end user cases. I think the major push off of reddit to Lemmy was the closing of the third party apps. This is what provided Reddit usability for a large scale of its base. When developers left reddit their userbase went with them because that was the app they liked.

    The benefits were clear, safety from enshittification, freedom of speech, and the same advertisement free user experience from third party apps with responsive user interfaces. It’s hard to admit there was a swath of users who probably moved because they used SYNC for Android and strongly disliked the mobile reddit UX. That whole period has cooled off now and people probably have less change energy in them now then before.

    I would think that that to make a successful leap from Lemmy to Piefed, there would probably have to be a clear migration path that is relatively seamless. All communities, post history, and app compatibility would have to come with it.

    Now with that being said, I wouldn’t want to burden the maintainers of any instances with additional overhead however I do trust them to be more aware of the inner workings of the systems they host than myself. Sometimes it’s worth standing up an environment to see if it’s abilities can stand the test of your use case.

    For that reason alone I would be for standing up alternatives at least to try them out.

    Thanks







  • Hmmm . . . as a lump sum the market would then react and everything would cost 1 million dollars. Money isn’t real. Food, Land, and property are.

    I think money’s value is directly tied to its velocity of trade vs the scarcity of the item it’s being traded for.

    However

    IMO: What you are owed is 500,000$ worth of government services per person. The costs of things like public education, infrastructure, healthcare , social security and other social services should be covered by this.

    This is what they want to take from you.








  • I keep recommending BazziteOS but Jorge Castro over at the universal Blue project has a really good point “Most people don’t install their operating systems” and that plain fact is what stops people from moving to Linux.

    Valve has momentum because they are selling you a system with the OS already on it. Sell more gaming PCs with pre installed Linux on it and the support will follow. Valve’s first attempt at getting Linux based gaming hardware out there failed but that didn’t stop them and the real push is coming this time.

    If you do install your OS (most people here have once or twice), try Bazzite out. I’m running it on the minisforum Bd790i with a radeon 7800xt and it works great!