pattmayne

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What's a company secret you can share now that you no longer work there? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] pattmayne@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

I used to work at the CIA. We did 9/11

Why Defederating from Facebook/Meta is So Important in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] pattmayne@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

They'll start setting standards, other instances will comply, and meta will control (or destroy) the fediverse.

r/Piracy probably needs a rethink in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] pattmayne@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Today's pirates are too mean!"

This is awesome! in c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
[–] pattmayne@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree.

BUT some degree of infighting means we're alive and engaged with the platform. I think it's healthy infighting.

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If I were Reddit or Facebook I would divide and conquer the Fediverse (sh.itjust.works)
 

The only threat to this burgeoning community is the same old divide & collapse nonsense that separates citizens under their overlords everywhere.

I would create accounts and start calling to defederate instances which allow non-polite (or politically incorrect or otherwise offensive) communities.

We didn't just survive the trolls on reddit. We thrived amongst them. We can handle them. We can block them.

I want curatorial tools to curate my own feed. I absolutely 100% do NOT want any admins telling me what I can't read. And going to another instance is no solution if that instance is blocked.

I don't want to be on a purely polite ecosystem, or a purely right-wing-idiot ecosystem. I want access to everybody, and the tools to curate that experience.

The trolls do NOT have the power to take us down. But the admins definitely do.

Welcome to the Defediverse.

A Solution for Questions of Defederation in c/main@sh.itjust.works
[–] pattmayne@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddit became popular through dangerous openness. I resent having some admin curate my experience. Give users more control to curate their own experiences. Stop getting in the way of what I want to read.

Im kindof a noob but I love linux in c/linux@sh.itjust.works
[–] pattmayne@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah it's been 100% reliable so far.

Im kindof a noob but I love linux in c/linux@sh.itjust.works
[–] pattmayne@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm running Void Linux on one 11-year-old laptop (with XFCE and i3). My only complaint is that installing packages can be a lot more of a nuisance. The xbps repo doesn't have anywhere close to the number of packages in pacman+AUR, and I have run into trouble installing stuff much more often on Void than on Arch. There's a solution for everything, but in the end it's extra work. All that being said, Void is awesome and fun.