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Advice for new folks from #reddit –

Hello and welcome. Please note that we don’t yet have a robust Reddit replacement because the two we have (#lemmy and #kbin) are still in really rough betas with features being hammered out by volunteers. Reddit had the gall to implode when these projects are at most some months old, but it isn’t as if current Reddit is into doing anyone any favors, huh?

So please have patience as you re-orient yourself. Unlike Reddit, nobody in the Fediverse made a deal with the devils known as Venture Capitalism. This means we don’t have to pay the piper when interest rates make the bottom fall out of our funding, but also means we don’t have the speed of development that funding can sometimes yield.

I recommend taking some time to decompress and experiment with how things work on Kbin and Lemmy. If you have feedback, give it to the devs.

And don’t feel bound to these networks. You are the captain of your ship.

Smooth sailing and good winds to you.

—@avajarvis

I find it amusing that the CEO of Reddit, evidently a socially challenged individual, thinks he can outsmart the nerdiest social network aficionados in the world: his site’s admins.

—@danielpunkass

A friend of mine recently burned out on maintaining open-source software and communities, and had been half-joking for a while that they wanted a sassy license to the effect of “I release this code for free, take it or leave it, or go do it yourself”.

Tonight I wrote that license for and with him. Please enjoy the “Fork Off” Public License, v0.9: https://github.com/klardotsh/fork-off-public-license

(I’ll tag a v1.0 after any feedback y’all might have to clarify things or make it funnier. Forking it is also of course ok.)

—@klardotsh

Here’s what people on the outside looking in, don’t get, Mastodon isn’t an alternative to other social media, it is its own thing entirely.

That’s what struck me about it, and why I’m still there. People on Mastodon didn’t care how many people were on it or if their favorite celebrity or journalist was here. They want to build communities with real people.

All these kinds of articles are basically stating, “This wasn’t for me, therefore these things are failures.” How absolutely ridiculous.

—@RickiTarr

Your weekly Sunday reminder:
Religions: “we don’t pay tax because we’re not for profit corporations”
Also religions: own for profit schools, for profit hospitals, for profit aged care facilities, for profit kindergartens, for profit colleges, for profit universities as well as millions worth of real estate, which, you guessed it, generate profit.
Tax. The. Fuck. Out. Of. Churches.
#TaxTheChurches

—@BrisVegas