I feel that in my soul.

Reasonable. Carry on.

Because you forgot and now it’s 3 am and nothing is open, or?

I hold grudges. But for me to expend that kind of energy it’s gotta be a serious thing. I’m not worried about you spilling a drink on me a decade ago. I would definitely remember if you stole from my mother though.

Immediately my thought was “oh, is it tea time?”

I’ll drink water in the middle of the night by the light of my phone screen like the forces that be intended.

This is the reason I didn’t try it with my surface.

Some people on Tumblr really needed this last week. There was a poll asking if the ones with Autism would get rid of it if they could. A lot of people mentioned that they have both Autism and ADHD and would get rid of ADHD in a heartbeat. I am in the minority of people who have come to accept having Autism and ADHD as part of who I am, and I recognize that there’s nothing wrong with me. I’m perfectly fine the way I am. I don’t know who I would be if I got rid of either of them.

I’d rather the world change to be more accepting of people who are different because every difference is important. I was born this way and as far as I’m concerned the world should accept me. It’s no different than being born a brunette or with brown eyes. A more accepting world can exist, but we have to survive in it and thrive in it for that to happen.

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Only in the jurisdictions where they operate (Germany and Finland).

I don’t mind having the skin. I mind cleaning the skin. Not because I don’t want to be clean but because the water takes too long to feel right. Oh. And my knees hurt.

I think this may depend on the instance you’re on. The “trans” spam bot hit up my sister’s account but she’s on fedia/mbin. I haven’t noticed the other abuses per se to be like. Rampant or anything.

But I also don’t check DM’s.

Ah. So it’s not just me.

Can I ask what you’re planning to use block chain for? To verify each account? Or to federate instances?

You’re probably right. I don’t like it, but they don’t care about the science.

To me though, this is a breath of fresh air because it will re-enforce the relief and other good feelings that people who transition feel and perhaps quell some of their doubts and fears. I consider that a net positive.

Well. This is good news.

You are assuming that A. Google isn’t scraping data for their own AI, B. that these companies will create their own instances (which opens them up to a certain amount of liability and requires them to retain moderation/admin and maintenance staff (which costs money)). C. That the enshittification of corporate owned versions of Lemmy and the fediverse won’t push people to Lemmy sooner or later.

A fourth assumption you made is that the Threads federation push was made in order to do anything other than create hype around a feature that might draw people away from places like the fediverse. I kind of assumed (maybe I’m wrong) that they were offering it as a way to have all the benefits of federation - namely the assumption of FOSS adjacent services, but with all the “benefits” of corporate social media.

The truth is that it’s likely that Meta absolutely has had a detrimental effect on the fediverse because it has things that pull users away from the fediverse. Instagram has content. For days. And because the fediverse is small (shrinking as you say), and because it doesn’t have an algorithm that pushes certain content to certain users, Meta and the other services that have analogs in the fediverse continue to be popular.

A lot of this is because the fediverse still hasn’t figured out a way to be profitable to content creators and we no longer live in the early 2000’s of YouTube etc where content creation for free was popular.

I’d argue that a lot of the appeal of the fediverse is organic conversation and communication. The popularity of that as a whole is declining because of algorithms that tickle just the right feel good chemicals in our brains.

As for your comment about these corps investing in the fediverse? The only reason for them to do that is if they can make money off it. The major money making scheme the internet is relying on is ad service. So there’s a catch 22 here. I would rather donate money to fedi services than have the fediverse infested with ads.

I don’t want that. Part of the fediverse’s appeal for me is that people aren’t constant trying to sell me things on it.

While I can understand certain communities having "suggest a (game, service, product), for the most part I really don’t want to basically invite corps to think this is free real estate. And that’s exactly what I think this would do.

It’s seems like it would invite corps to basically astroturf Lemmy and the fediverse the way they’re doing with bot armies over on reddit.

That’s my comfort lemon husk.

I think it might actually be a Neurodivergent thing. I also have always struggled with “long term plans”. If investment (401K etc) wasn’t easy I wouldn’t do it at all.

I’ll mess with it one day. Just gotta remember to poke around with it.