My nephew only watches movies in a small window on his laptop. I said “wow, you’re a real cinephile, huh?”. He replied with “yeah if that’s a portmanteau of cinema and defile.”

Ah so we’re moving from zero accountability to even less!

I mean it like, it’s a slow progression that builds on other interests, rather than your average person deciding suddenly to self-host. And it’s not that I think it is or isn’t worthwhile, I just have a different idea about what “we” are trying to accomplish. If your priority is to grow the userbase of one particular community or project, then I can see why you would want to have “presence” on corporate platforms. I still think it warrants an examination of the principles of self-hosting and consideration of “alternative” platforms.

If a little light sarcasm is incivility to you, then you’re in for a real struggle. I don’t know how most people end up self-hosting but I suspect it’s more of an organic process. For me, jeez… I can probably trace it back to using StumbleUpon browser extension, hearing about Linux, then installing it as a way to avoid studying for exams. Once I was using Linux on my computer, I suppose self-hosting was inevitable. Where did I get the info? Wherever I could find it.

I’m in the same boat, but I’m starting to look around again. I’m curious about Wayland, so I started looking at Debian KDE last night, but I get hung up on choosing between stable, testing or unstable. Also the download page wasn’t working for me.

Do you know what a hyperlink is? You just click on it and it takes you to Lemmy. You sign up, pretty much the same way you have done for every other service you have ever used. What are we doing here? Are we not trying to build alternatives to the corpo-surveillance hellscape that the internet has become? Give users a little more credit, and a little more incentive. Otherwise, you’re sending mixed messages when you offer a way to get their photos away from google or something, but you force them to use fucking Discord for support.

Checks out.

Jesus Christ.

Do you work in the public sector?

You can find unions that you can join as an individual in circumstances like yours. The one that comes to my mind is the IWW.

How about glory holes, but just for kissing only!!

Expendable for progress profits.

Prolly get filtered out. I was thinking cans of expanding foam (ie, "great stuff) with an m80 duct taped to it. Light it up, chuck it in.

I understand that POV, but if people want help, they’ll go to where it is. Walk the talk of FOSS. That’s how we’ll build better communities.

There’s a certain irony making this comment on Lemmy.

The drunker or sleepier I am, the more likely I am to sit.

Like others have said, we had a big map. One thing I remembered though is how fucking often I would forget somebody’s 2-liter of Pepsi or whatever. I would just stop and buy one on the way, and then later grab one from work and take it home.

Hitting the top of the flagpole in Mario.

Oh I didn’t see anything like that. Must be from people I’ve already blocked.

I’m saying you don’t have to be two-faced or hypocritical to encourage theft from or destruction of data centers.