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Nope, I think it’s disgusting.

Yeah, thought the same, another sign of Shitter becoming 4chan.

Have you looked at European politics, recently? As always they’re behind what the US does but they sure are trying, we have fascists (and not a small number) in the parliament here in Germany.

+1 for Masto over Pixelfed, I have accounts on both and Pixelfed is basically a (very janky) “Mastodon but only image posts but also a whole lot of bugs and terrible UI”. The comment feature on Pixelfed is godawful (one of the worst I’ve ever seen), things like following or muting hashtags sometimes just error out etc. Never had anything similar on Mastodon ever.

I was just about to comment exactly the same!

Cory Doctorow could have told you that 15 years ago (but it’s not like anybody who needs to hear this will listen to it anyways).

FreshRSS

“I have seen things.”

Yeah, you have to be super blind ethically to not understand that this is a highly fucked-up idea to come up and then follow through with (not that I’m surprised).

On it’s own? Or did tge driver crash it?

❄️

“Even behind” 🍿

That’s the beauty of (this shite version of) capitalism, you can’t! I don’t think giving money global evilcorps that don’t give a fuck about their employees will really support them, at least.

Kickstarter / Patreon, maybe?

I think this is a really cool concept bit I’d love to not jave to buy stuff I don’t need to support them:

https://www.glitchprod.com/knights-of-guinevere

I’d pay for digital DRM-free downloads of media any day, though.

I see what you did there …

Yeah, give me more reasons to have even less of a guilty conscious when pirating from evilcorps 💖

I think one of the big things few people mention is hahstags, I do follow a lot of things that interest me via hashtags and found a lot of cool people that way.

Haha, o no. Mmmmh, I would go around server lists (heard good things about https://fedi.garden/ ) and then look at the public timeline of a server and also at the server rules. I did this for finding a new Pixelfed instance a few months ago (didn’t find anything I liked) and it was interesting to see if people had just pasted the standard rules (kind of a red flag for me, personally), wrote some bs like “be nice to each other” or had taken care of thinking about this.

I almost didn’t notice and the all sites I wanted to look had had been archived on archive.org

What are you struggling with? Look for a server (that isn’t mastodon.social) that fits your interests, sign up, browse the local or global timeline, follow interesing people, have fun!

Iirc she basically translated all of Carl Barks into German, but she might have done a lot of other things Im not aware of.