Amanda Unvarnished

I now have more followers on Mastodon than my dad’s stupid dog on Instagram. Who’s a good boy now, huh dad??

—@yurnidiot

Watch the LibrePlanet: Charting the Course videos on PeerTube: https://framatube.org/a/fsf/. Which talks do you like in particular? #PeerTube #LibrePlanet

—@fsf

PSA: CW isn’t censorship or “hiding important things”. It’s like a subject line in an email: the reader knows what’s coming so they may choose when to see it.

—@irina

I’ve been pretty critical of calls for mass-defederation for political or structural reasons, but I 100% understand the mods who pledge not to federate with Meta.

Facebook, on their best day, is the tobacco industry of the internet. Anybody wants to ban them in this space gets zero pushback from me.

#Fediverse #Mastodon #Meta

—@maxleibman

You know what’s more frightening than the proliferation of #AI?

The proliferation of opportunists on LinkedIn and Medium and elsewhere trying to shove their “10 Ways to Leverage AI for Success” posts and articles in your face. 😱

—@gulovsen

Normalize chosen names outside the trans community.

—@LunaDragofelis

Your periodic reminder that VC-funded CEOs are in a situation that they have bet both their kidneys on being able to deliver a 100x return to the bone-saw wielding loan sharks who funded them.

Your “community” is worthless to them unless it delivers Kidney Money.

They cannot just “decide” to not enshittify the community you mistakenly believed was yours. No appeal to justice or fairness will work, unless accompanied by a donor kidney or two.

—@Unixbigot

Just putting it out there that my dad was a piece of shit, and while the holiday doesn’t trigger me especially, I want to express solidarity and sympathy with anyone else out there who has hard or complicated feelings on days when everyone is posting nice stuff about their parents.

—@Cyrus

People keep acting surprised at the direction Reddit’s taking, but it seemed inevitable. If you try to build community on a platform that’s not owned by that community this will happen every time. You can protest, you can even attack the bottom line (which is the only thing that will get you anywhere), but at the end of the day you have no power and they’ll just block you and re-add your deleted posts. Don’t trade community ownership and power for convenience or you’ll get burned every time.

—@sam

On electric vehicles:
There is no foreseeable battery tech coming in this generation (20 to 25 years) that will make cars clean or green and almost no current battery tech is ethical. Google where cobalt comes from. Google how short a life LiFePo batteries have. Google how unrecyclable they are. Electric cars are Elon Musk’s fantasy, full of Elon’s jizz, to put it bluntly.

On electric bicycles: If you are able bodied, they are of no benefit to you. Any $500 to a $1000 bicycle will outride and outdistance one of these consumerist toys. If you can’t ride because of disabilities like muscle atrophy or a number of other conditions that might allow riding a bike, but no powering a bike, then an electric bicycle is a great idea! Anybody who is able bodied and choses an electric bicycle is just to0 lazy to do the real environmental change that’s needed. I have a heart condition, and I ride a bicycle with no electric assist as my main mode of transport. See also the battery stuff. You can buy a human powered bicycle with reasonable guarantees there is very little likelihood of slave labour being involved in production. The same cannot be said for any battery powered device. I say again, Google where cobalt comes from. Google how short a life LiFePo batteries have. Google how unrecyclable they are.

—@crunchysteve

Hey fediversians, I just want to gently remind you that your bot and spam battling, moderating admins host this most marvelous free of charge, no advertising, open discourse platform because it is a passion. They give endless hours to this pursuit around the clock. Your social media life is better for all of it. The cost to them is time and money. Please throw some dough, bread, moolah, ca$h, cabbage, dinero, ducats, splosh, etc, their way if you are able. It feels really good to give to them.

—@noondlyt