Usually it’s just the self-righteousness instinct…

I love¹ telepathic people who can read other people’s minds and post on their behalf.

¹ This is sarcasm. I hate the delusional who think they’re telepaths.

I swear, I’m seeing the western equivalent of wumaos servicing Meta here. Only at least the wumaos got paid; it made sense. These idiots are doing the labour for free!

I’m pretty sure that 99.44% of nostr is cryptobros.

Matrix […] has a kind of rough UX and, IIRC resource-intensive server software. We should work toward improving that.

Except that I get the vibes from the Matrix community that the shit UX is part of the attraction because it does a wonderful job of gatekeeping.

I don’t hold out much hope for Matrix working out ever, but perhaps someday someone will use it as inspiration for making something that doesn’t suck.

…evolve to something like what nostr is doing.

Giving places for cryptobros to wank without being pointed at and laughed at by their betters?

An “obvious” typo you missed when you wrote it. When you read it back after posting. In a post where you were putting on airs of being smarter than everybody.

I fucking love it when that happens and love to rub it in.

“Jeffrey doesn’t always eat people. Just sometimes. We should totally go clubbing with him and spurn him later if he eats one of us.”

You understand that no matter how much you kneel down to service Meta, Zuck the Fuck won’t be trickling anything down on you that isn’t a bodily fluid, right?

And hey, I’m not going to kink-shame. Just pointing out that if that isn’t your specific kink, you might want to wake up to there being zero dollars trickling down to you.

“Yes, Jeffrey has, in the past, killed and eaten gay men. But we should wait and see. It’s impolite not to invite him to the party!”

It will always be … a name that doesn’t exist and has never existed?

(Hint: BURMA. It’s hard to sound smart when you can’t even get a single fucking name right! Especially the name that “it will always be” for you. Holy fucking shit!)

You know, you have access to search engines too. You don’t need to be lazy and treat the rest of the Internet as your personal stenographer/research assistant.

Fucking HELL, despite how increasingly easy it is to find information, it cannot keep pace with just how utterly fucking lazy people are getting.

There was an interesting paired poll done, asking about federation with Threads and federation with Tumblr.

66% of people were wary of or actively opposed federating with Threads. Fewer than 20% were wary of or actively opposed federating with Tumblr.

It’s not “defederate from every corporate player”. It’s passing this message on to Meta:

Or K. Everybody always forgets K.

In some cases it is, yes, worse. But in many cases it’s just the press the Americans spew about themselves living in the “land of the free” while the jackboots march in unison ever closer.

This makes absolutely no sense in my country.

This makes absolutely no sense in any country. The whole “Sovereign Citizens” movement (and its offshoots and influences) is a steaming hot pile of garbage that’s being cooked by an underlying tire fire. It’s what happens when sociopaths interact with each other in ways that feed and fan the flames of their disorder.

Not HK and Hong Kong.

Also some people in Hainan will refer to the “mainland” as opposed to Hainan island.

It turns out words can be used in multiple ways. It’s not all about Taiwan.

It is definitely blocked.

Source: I’m in Mainland China.

Where have I seen this pattern before…?

Oh, right! The mass famine of the Great Leap Forward was caused by exactly this kind of thing! But … I’ve seen this pattern elsewhere. Let me think…

Oh, right! Literally every medium- to large-sized corporate entity I’ve ever worked in!

There’s a reason why I call corporate thinking “corporate communism”.

For months at one place I worked senior developers and even junior managers had been haranguing the higher-ups with an alarm bell on how important the Internet was going to be and how we needed to start pivoting toward outfitting our product with the ability to interact properly on the Internet. We were steadfastly ignored and our concerns were quietly scoffed at because our product was a “best of breed” product in our space.

Then we got hit by a huge wave of lost sales because we had no viable scheme in place to proper interact with Internet-based applications.

The then-CEO called a “developers all-hands” meeting in which he pranced around on the stage at the front of the auditorium to complain to us that nobody had been telling him how important this Internet thing was going to be and that we were supposed to be keeping an eye on the leading edge of technology so he can make plans for these things.

This sparked a VERY LOUD outcry as about 150 software developers who’d been ignored and scoffed at for months just flipped a switch into revolution mode. Lots of people started talking loudly (then shouting). One guy with a laptop connected it to the big projector display and started scrolling through an email folder where he’d collected the notices warning about the importance of the Internet and management’s (including the CEO’s) condescending replies. By the end of that little skirmish the CEO was making a lame excuse that he was “joking” and was “taking our feedback very seriously” after 20 people (half of them very senior) just flatly quit in front of him and walked out of the auditorium.

That’s probably the worst “read the fucking room, dude!” moment I ever saw.

I think you should probably instead know that it’s better to just donate directly to the aid agencies actually supplying the aid instead of letting a non-aid entity charity-wash themselves to get more money later.