The bible … or the cartoon? either way, the answer is the same anyway … they’re both made up.
Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, 2SLGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.
The bible … or the cartoon? either way, the answer is the same anyway … they’re both made up.
Reposting is like Einstein’s ideas and perspectives of time … it’s all relative.
When you see a meme for the first time, it’s not a repost, it’s something entirely new to you … but to someone who saw the content a long time ago, they may have seen it a hundred times.
As soon as you see it, others will come after you to see it for the first time … to them it is new … to you, you just saw it a second time, a third time, a hundred times, it is now a repost
Just like time in the universe … time moves at a certain rate here but between you and me, we both see it at slightly very tiny differences we would never notice … but jump to a different planet, nearer or further from a star, a neutron star or a black hole and time is a completely different thing for everyone
Reposting is the internet equivalent of relativity
It would be more efficient if we shrunk the power of the wealthiest individuals and made everyone fall under a wealthy limit
Why should one person own and control so much wealth when they will never realistically be able to enjoy all of that wealth during their lifetime? Especially if that one person hoarding all that wealth they’ll never use is producing, creating and maintaining so much pollution for one individual.
Don’t exist until they’re gone … I’m a middle child in a family of eight … mom kept an eye on the baby and the oldest … as long as there was six in the middle, no one really cared who they were until that number of middle children decreased.
Don’t change the logo … just keep it as is … I identify the app more for the app than for the site it was associated with … I associate Sync with Sync … I don’t associate it with reddit, lemmy, kbin or anything … I just associate it with Sync which makes the most sense to me
That logo only means Sync to me … and as an app I think it should remain that way
Willy Wonka looking straight into your eyes: … yes … EVERYTHING
Does this mean that in ten years we’re going to have a pandemic again?
What is going on here? … is this a time warp? … is this a new thing? … is this an old thing? … is this a thing? … did I just find a time machine?
I remember reading once that eating insects would be more efficient than eating beef or meat from larger animals. We can harvest from large animals about 60 to 70 percent of their mass as protein … if we did the same for insects, over 90 percent of their mass would be protein.
You have to fill out form ID-10-T and then store some kinetic energy inside a box attached to a mechanical hand in an open palm position … the box will then be shipped to the person you are “downboosting” and when they open the box, the stored kinetic energy will activate the hand and slap them in the face … a small audio device will be installed with the package that will play the Windows logon sound bite and then announce ‘YOU’VE BEEN DOWNBOOSTED’.
Also … Reddit is a private business where people were allowed to come in to chat and talk … don’t act surprised when the owners and managers change their minds for whatever reason and decide to kick you out.
It’s the company’s space, like the lobby of a shopping mall … people are freely allowed to come in, sit down and chat … don’t be surprised if the owners of the mall decide one day that they no longer like you any more and bring security in to escort you out.
You have no rights or privileges on a private social media site … you have temporary permissions … and those can be changed, disregarded, forgotten or done away with at the discretion of the owners at any time for any reason.
LEAVE REDDIT … you’re on someone else’s lawn and they don’t like you any more.
and I’ll be the first one to say it because either people don’t want to talk about it or they just don’t think about it
SUPPORT YOUR INSTANCE … SUPPORT YOUR OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
It doesn’t matter who you are on … lemmy, kbin, mastodon or anyone else … find your instance owner and see if they are looking for donations or subscriptions and sign up for them
Sure the only way we can protect this new system is by keeping it federated, open and decentralized … but it all only works if small groups of people pay for the basic hardware services and rental services and any other services out there to keep it all running … yes the costs are minimal for small instances but those costs only add up as their instance becomes more popular.
Supporting your instance means it will stay protected … if you burn out your instance owners or they run into financial trouble … then your instance will start more risks including being shut down or sold to someone else
And it doesn’t take much to support these guys … if we all just gave a dollar a month, it would be more than enough to support them.
One important key lesson that everyone misses is funding … we have to normalize paying a bit of money through donations or subscriptions to those people that maintain instances and those people who maintain, update and build the software … if we all just keep tell ourselves that we all just keep our heads down, lock the door and don’t bother to pay anyone to keep the door locked … the same problems of the past will always emerge … Owners, developers, programmers, instance maintainers just running out of money and enthusiasm because they have the shoulder the financial costs while everyone ignores them and takes everything for granted.
If we all just keep expecting volunteers to keep everything running for us for free … eventually we will run out of willing volunteers as the community grows and the costs add up over time as instances grow more popular
SUPPORT YOUR INSTANCE … whatever platform it is and whatever amount of money you can give … even if it means we just give a dollar a day, across hundreds or thousands of user, it will protect your instance owner, and ensure that the people running your instance never run into a situation where they have to decide on either ending their work … or selling everything they have to make a bit of money back.
100 years from now … Anime Titties is the defacto source for world news
I got into reddit about ten years ago … I wasn’t part of the first wave but back then it felt like the site was new and things were happening. Then it just slowly devolved into what it is now
I really don’t mind the change as it just gives me a new perspective on things and people … change is good … any time we are caught standing still, we always seem to lose something, especially in the digital world.
That would be an amazing project a group could take part in … just have a whole host of users post irrelevant data that sort of sounds acceptable but is complete nonsense. Post usual stuff but with a twist in everything. Use bad grammar, misplaced words, unusual syntax, falsehoods, lies and just general nonsense … over and over again.
Does Dawson have any lemmy, kbin, mastodon connections we can link to?
I want to connect with his account without reddit and give through patreon or any fundraising he is doing … I dumped reddit but I had been using sync for years and I paid for the lifetime subscription just before going off … after what he did for us for years, I’m more than willing to give funding to him for his work
Jesus … lol … that’s hilirious … but also they said activity to make the site less attractive, not more attractive
Major corporations and global companies no longer really care about nation states or nationalities any more. All they care about is making money and they don’t follow any ethics when it comes to that.
If you push them in one way or another … they just shift responsibility, change a name, change a direction, change a shell company and move stuff around, tell everyone they’ve changed and continue with business as usual in whatever way they please.
They can circumvent any national law for and from one country to another … they can do one thing in one country that can’t be done in another and vice versa and if they get stuck, they just call up international law litigate and get business done anyway.
It’s getting to the point where nations no longer matter much any more … it’s the corporations that have all the power and control.