It’s good to be the king.

I’m gonna dub this print the Poopy.

You two need to get together and enjoy the Christmas vibes!

The Metamorphosis of a Prime Intellect.

Everclear

Apparently: Them playing our local city square, doing a terrible performance, acting like prima donnas, and then after inviting people to come see them at the merch booth after the show, then never showing up.

“I will if you take a dementia test…”

You say that, but after my last set of tuning my E3 Pro is a real workhorse! Give it another 4 years like I did. May also help to threaten it with replacement if it fs up ONE MORE TIME…

Ok. On the treadmill, at the gym.

I’m torn. Do not support building a wall with Mexico. Would support building a wall with Texas.

Trump on the stand, being fined for talking about the clerk: I wasn’t talking about the clerk, I was talking about Michael Cohen. … Gag order gets lifted. So anyway, what I was saying about the clerk…

Another way of looking at it: Lemmy is retaining the engagement of the vast majority of new users who have joined recently.

Is he poor? Maybe. The question is why is he poor? He just sold Mar-a-lago to a company owned by Don Jr., alledgedly for something over $400 million.

He might be poor because he’s hiding all his assets on offshore banks. If so, then the question becomes: why is he doing that?

It’s not cancel culture if everyone is just tired of your bullshit.

You can have my fireworks when you pry them from my cold, dead fingers. Which are over there, near the fireworks.

Sure, I have no love of Meta either, which is why I would love for people to have an easy escape hatch via the Fediverse…

You probably aren’t wrong about it being overly idealistic and optimistic. :-(

That’s an interesting point, one of the reasons I chose lemmy.world was that it wasn’t ban-happy.

Since writing my comment above, I’ve come across Cory Doctrow’s “Let the Platforms Burn” article where he argues that interoperability and the ability for users to move to other platforms is the best way out of the Meta situation. https://doctorow.medium.com/let-the-platforms-burn-6fb3e6c0d980

(Apparently) Unpopular Opinion: I think defederating Threads is the wrong move, because it just locks people into Threads. If people on Twitter had the ability to move to Mastodon AND still interact with all the people they did before, I think we would have seen even more people move. The only reason I still check twitter at all is because I have a few close friends who didn’t move. Meta is likely going to have big adoption of people who aren’t ready to go to Mastodon, but are interested in getting out of the dumpster-on-fire that twitter seems to continue to be. But blocking those people from being able to join the more popular Lemmy instances, given no actual policy violations, just will keep people in Meta that otherwise could leave. With the “however” being: It’s not quite clear to me that Threads users will be interacting with Lemmy as much Mastodon, if Threads were a Reddit replacement, it’s more directly connected.