Just a person who likes media that you actually can hold in your hands and computers that only do what you tell them to.
I was told something like this about an article I was pointing out wasn’t on page 1 of google, but was on virtually all other engines. “Unless it’s page 1 of google nobody cares”
And all I can say is “who cares? those aren’t the people it’s for”
This feels like clickbait - I find it hard to believe the writers of this piece are unaware of the protests. The better question, perhaps, is “why does media refuse to cover the protests”, and the answer to that is obvious - the media (damn near all of it) is controlled by the very oliarchs we’re protesting.
Considering it’s shipped by default on the fedi, on ghost, discourse, bsky and loads of other very hot upcoming and established tools, it’s very much alive. Just because xitter and facebook and google failed to find a way to monetize it and therefore tried to kill it doesn’t make it dead.
I’m a huge fan of RSS, it’s how I get 90% of my media now.
Can’t think of any times when “undesireables” have been sent to prisons/gulags in other countries. Nope. Nothing springs to mind…
I think even UK common law has something to say about that, some kind of Magna Carta? We regressed right back to pre-constitutional monarchy, do not pass go.
Dude literally pointed to his friends who made a killing on it, and posted “buy” info on his socials before reversing.
If we had any kind of system of laws, that’d be jail time.
TBF, Target largely brought this on themselves before the DEI stuff. They’re more expensive here than a proper dept store, and everything is locked in plastic and takes forever to get.
Can’t boycott what I already wasn’t using.
I’ve always assumed that was the whole point
Ars technica ProPublica BBC (US) Joan Westenberg XKCD Questionable Content Fireside Fedi
Probably my faves. There’s a few others on pixelfed/mastodon that I follow as well, but more special interest
KDE. I’ve been using it as my daily driver for roughly 10 years now, and barring any unforeseen excitement, it’ll stay that way indefinitely. Proably until I stop using Linux, anyhow.
Well, there’s certainly some rallies. I’ve attended a couple, but we’re certainly getting low on polite options.
What “kickstart”? The fediverse isn’t a commercial venture. If we can connect with our friends and interests, it’s already “working”. I find fantastic new people here all the time, doing really niche stuff I’d never find on a platform focused on appealing to everyone.
If “99%” of people aren’t on it, that’s perfectly acceptable, and just makes it easier for the ones on it to find and talk to their friends. I don’t think we need or want the vast torrent of spammers, downvote bots, and “influencer” types who use whatever gives them clicks.