I'm going into the den of racists this year, wish me luck
I would warn against it, minor cogito hazard if subject tries to understand symbols
I love these kinds of very specific slice of life stories from work. It's so weird how these things can feel like such a big part of your life, but most of us just forget about them as soon as we walk out the door, let alone change jobs. Work is so weird lol
humanity squatting in their own ruins
Love this. It's kind of giving Ruin Haunters from All Tomorrows.
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Python programmer: They're the same picture
How do you know about DW?
I think the fediverse in general has a better chance because it's built on an anti-corporate philosophy, from the software, maintainers, admins, moderators, and much of the community (though increasingly less so, as it becomes more popular).
If you have a problem with corporate influence on Reddit, then your ability to act on it ends with your subreddit's moderators. To the admins and owners of reddit, that kind of influence is a feature.
Hell they can even monetize it, bake it right into the DNA of the back-end, give the corps a nice little API to poll, maybe some webhooks...
That is not something I see happening on the fediverse as long as its open source and run by the community.
But I really really agree with it. I'd like to see the culture around here step up a little bit. Circlejerks and shitposting communities are one thing, but not everything has to be a joke. And certainly not the same joke, over and over again and again.
What's wrong with Discourse? I ran a server during college for a couple of buddies and it was totally owned and operated by us, no corpos or anything. It's just like phpbb or any other forum software AFAIK.
Proof the system works right here.
I can understand this perspective: wanting to spread the gospel of federation, etc.
But I'm starting to come around to the realization that the growth mindset is rotten. It's what leads to these big centralized/unified platforms that concede on their core in order to reach a wider audience.
I can't blame corpos for conceding away all identity, because engagement is how they make money, but what's our excuse?
These aren't refugees. They're free to make a lemmy or masto or whatever account any time they want. We don't have a problem with most of the people. It's the platform, and all the fucking out and proud racists who are on it.
This makes me uncomfortable.