That’s about how it went for me. This is pretty much my home instance, but I also keep an account on a more local lemmy for chatting with the townies.

Also experimenting with my own instance. Still workin out the kinks.

There’s a donator page? I wonder if I’m on there…

EDIT: Oic, just scroll down here.

Nice of the .world admins to donate a hundred/mo. Didn’t know that.

What a trend setter!

End of an era 🥲

Although usually the tide rolls back down for a while with one of these Septembers, as some newbies just don’t click with their instance for whatever reasons. Still, it seems inevitable that it will tip over that threshold, and stay there, one day.

Definitely. Another similar trick I used to do was to write down the objects in my agenda under “things I wanted to buy.” Sometimes just the act of writing it down gave me the feeling of having fulfilled the desire in some weird way.

I remember duplicate communities seemed like it would be a problem, until you experience it and realise it’s actually a feature of the fediverse.

I was just so used to the centralised mentality. I honestly have a hard time putting myself back in that headspace…

Housing is so loony right now. I managed to borrow enough to make a downpayment before it got really crazy. For everyone’s sake I hope the market gets flooded with affordable units and crashes the values back down to where they were in the 90s.

I’m sorry for all the single mortgage havers whose savings is all their house, but we’re already better off than so many people just by paying the bank directly rather than a fucking land lord.

Demon Demon

Federation doesn’t definitively solve power tripping. It just reduces its impact.

Huge instances like world do undermine that project, so it’s up to us lemmizens (lol) to try and stay independent and spread out.

Lemmy, and indeed the entire Fediverse, offers every user the Bender gambit. You can make your own instance …

It really is that easy. I wasn’t sure it would be, but I started up my own instance on a Saturday because I was procrastinating on some work.

I used the Docker method, but apparently Ansible is even easier.

Neo-liberals don’t know how to fight fascists because the same unequitable system underlies both of their power structures.

To fight the fascists effectively they would have to undermine their own legitimacy.

… when the need exists.

Like you already said, it’s much easier to separate needs from wants when you just don’t go to Amazon. It was a real eye opener for me, how I could just add a tiny bit of friction to my “customer journey” (just don’t automatically start my search on Amazon), and my desire for the object would usually just … evaporate.

Like a fey mood had overtaken me, but I managed to shake it.

I guess that’s consumerism.

That’s vertical integration, and the end result for a virus like Amazon is that, left unchecked, they own everything.

I mean they can make it… don’t think anyone would federate with them, though.

That’s so fucking loony. I get the disenfranchisement with the neoliberal Democratic party. I really get it. But voting for that klepto dotard? I don’t.

That’s people just sharing their opinion freely. Word of mouth chatter is definitely not the same as advertising or even influencing, though of course they try to be.

It’s not just ad-free, it’s actively anti-corporate, anti-advertising, even anti-monetization. I would go so far as to say even anti-content in some ways. That’s a cultural disconnect that goes beyond tooling.

Rofl, Romeo and Juliet is like the definition of a tragedy.

God yeah, I’ll be like half way through an article before realising it’s just padding out some very surface level details about what I’m looking up. Like the top 3 interesting things about the topic, but never an actual novel, like, human take.

The journalist does the leg work to produce novel news.

Just to add that in addition to novelty, journalists provide valuable services, like

• holding up a mirror to the present culture
• documenting and disseminating happenings
• packaging up events into narratives

Not to say that you weren’t including these in “novel news,” but just to make it explicit.