https://steamsteamlol.ytmnd.com/

https://yarti.ytmnd.com/

I can't understate how much I love this art

I have to use Windows at work now, which is ass.

Anyway, I had a question about how to achieve something in Powershell the other day, so I asked it on Mastodon. Got basically nothing in response.

Every time I ask how to do something in Linux I get swamped with responses.

Make of that what you will.

Queer less than 25 here, I came here not because I was getting called slurs but because I'm tired of companies and of AI, I'm also on Linux :3

I'm a Luddite who discovered this shit inadvertently, and still doesn't actually understand how any of it works

But you're correct in that I'm pushing 50

Where do fifty-something furries fit to this?

Excuse me, I'm not 40 for a few more years yet tyvm!

you forgot the 3rd kind

Russian bots

I'm flattered that you think I'm 16 and didn't just turn double that this month c':

I can be a 40 years old queer friendly tired of being called slurs wanting to go back, with a mindset of a 16 year old...

I am in my mid-30s i will have you know!

I run Arch, btw.

I feel called out

What about us 20 somethings who vaguely remember the good ol days as they were fading away?

LGBT40+

Oh, so that’s why i see so many queer people on Mastodon.

complaining about their +70 year old mom

The great thing about the Internet is that people can just find stuff, often by accident.

you leave my muddah out 'o this!

I found myself in comparable spaces for the time too. Spend enough time online and you hear about things.

also don’t want my thoughts and comments to be an income stream for a for-profit organization

I mean, you're fooling yourself if you don't believe Lemmy has been scrapped by a thousand crawlers by now.

I'm more paranoid about how many accounts are bots than about some data aggregator getting my dumbshit hot takes as training data.

Dw, the corpos are using bots to scrape and categorize your thoughts and comments anyway.

Coming here for discussion and meme dopamine, Lemmy still has that intact. Reddit has killed it with bots, ads, and some heavy duty corporate lean on things.

r/castiron, dominated by Lodge Corpo as one example. Other “suggestions”, too early in the day to recall more names right now, are in a parrot circle of replies for brands, as above.

You can’t trust it as much, which is why, in part, people are here instead. More old, old Reddit feels, you know, before it became cool and was thus inevitably ruined.

don’t want my thoughts and comments to be an income stream for a for-profit organization

(...)

The modern social media platform is not designed to foster positive interactions, but rather to maximize shareholder value.

This is so much more important than whatever elitism OOP implies.

I'm also not 40 btw.

The bit we should regret is that we let the rich corporates steal it.

/fistclench

We exist without skin color,
without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals.
You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us
and try to make us believe it's for our own good,

The WWW was built for everyone.

We let rich assholes steal it out of laziness.

Take for example, Facebook vs MySpace or similar. Making a Facebook is instant, making a MySpace took effort. Setting up a subreddit is instant and free and gets you an immediate registered audience, setting up a vBulletin or similar forum is time-consuming and costs money and getting any traffic is an uphill battle. Same thing with posting- on Reddit just mozy on over to that sub and hit post, on a forum you have to register. Or you want to make videos? Gotta pay for a decent web hosting plan, lots of bandwidth, and deal with encoding, playback scripts, etc. Or just make a YouTube and hit 'upload'.

So we let big platforms take over the Internet. We gained a fuckton of features and convenience. We didn't consider what we lost- creativity, and the independence of not having to make everything advertiser-friendly.

Monetization is the other frenemy. It's great that creators can get paid for their work easily. But what we lose with that is every creator pandering to the algorithm, every video begs 'like comment and subscribe!', videos shy away from advertiser-unfriendly topics, and the kid filter brainrot is starting to infect common lexicon ('my brother got caught watching corn and now he's gonna unalive himself with a pewpew' type nonsense).

For that reason I think decentralization and federation are the way out.

Look at forums for example- one of the biggest barriers to entry was registration, getting people to care enough to bother registering. Lemmy fixes that, and you can still make a community as closed and private as you want.

I'm hoping a new group of websites will spring up from this. My only fear is they will all drown in a sea of AI slop.

Ditto

I winced.

I'm 39 and 3 months, thankyouverymuch, so I DO NOT fit the demographic!

(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

not accurate

The slow creep was real. Social media corporations brought the mainstream to the internet in the worst possible way, but the old internet was still alive in forums and chats and discussion groups that had been around for years.

Reddit destroyed it. It gathered everyone into one place. It was constantly growing and pulled users from everywhere else in the internet to one place. Centralization. Then, it inevitably went corpo to the point that the greed of the ones on top destroyed the communities they gathered and exploited to put themselves in their elevated positions of wealth.

To be clear, the people with the money don’t care at all. They cashed out and got theirs. Everything burns around their greed, no different from oil companies.

The internet was supposed to connect everyone, share ideas, connect the world to collective knowledge, and bring us all together. Instead, it became a tool of corporatist and fascist control. Reddit ultimately ended up being the corpo that crushed and scattered the opposition.

“The best time to join the fediverse is 10 years ago, second best time is today.”

• Wayne Gretzky
• Michael Scott

When Facebook came around, I immediately saw what it would lead to. Hell, just the thought of sharing your personal details for anyone and everyone to read was extremely creepy to me. Any time I tried to communicate this to people asking me why I wasn't on Facebook it achieved nothing. Pushback was useless, people want what they perceive as "convenience" even when they have to (almost literally) sell their souls to the machine. No, I don't think pushback would have helped, because people want these - and I shudder to call them such - services. The Internet was doomed the day it became mainstream.

When I was young, I was called a nerd for using computers. People online were primarily nerds who cared about tech. Those days are long gone, and there was nothing that could've been done to prevent the rot. It was inevitable as the Internet became more popular.

The masses will always be asses. They don't care. They will eat corporate slop and ask for seconds until their bloated corpses burst. The best we can do is create alternative infrastructures and wait with horror as they start to rot too.

Jesus, I think I'm having a bit of a blue day.

Yep. That is the regret.

Dozens of 'em.

Then there's me a 30 something woman for whom computers dislike working

It's OK, we can accept them as honorary members

The two genders of fedi

But yet still have no idea how they work beneath the GUI. 😉