@rysiek does this mean the social.network.europa.eu instance is being shut down? @EU_Commission

@rysiek I think we should start a petition. I tried but I can't get through the preliminary questions. Looks like I need to find 1 million people first or something? Its confusing, @EU_Commission

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/petitions/en/petition/readit

@rysiek Surely there has to be some internal body that runs PR for the EU that can take over running the servers day to day and the same contractors that did operations for the pilot can carry on as normal.

My impression was that it was basically treated as a one way operation anyway and the rest of us were just a comments section so the EUI could just set it and forget it

@rysiek yeah this platform is TOTALLY dead /s

@rysiek@mstdn.social this article gives me the same vibes as that one cuphead review

@rysiek I use https://www.ecosia.org/

@rysiek SearXNG.ca is what I use.

@rysiek @noracodes thank you, this is a useful contribution.

@rysiek @noracodes

Thanks for this. It's a good rendering of the situation. I think the truth is that some people don't want to communicate. They just want to pontificate. And if you don't fall in line with their expectations, you're to be demonized. Also, there's the self-appointed police who report rather than block. The last point is reading comprehension. A lot of people can read, but they lack the requisite comprehension skills to understand what they are reading.

@rysiek@mstdn.social @noracodes@weirder.earth
The Fediverse is dead. Long live ghe Fediverse!

@rysiek bonk!!

@rysiek Best Dad joke this week :)

@rysiek

Is this why:

Donald Trump
Tucker Carlson
Sean Hannity
Mike Johnson
Joe Rogan
Margorie Taylor Green
Matt Gaetz
and more...

double down on their lies and disinformation campaigns?

@rysiek All of them died from not enough love.

Not enough love for the Greatest Leader of all Humanity, Putin. And unconditional surrender to his orders.

@rysiek
The Dead

> Jeśli głosowanie nie jest w pełni godne zaufania, różne siły polityczne mogą zacząć podważać wynik wyborów

> Żeby głosowanie było godne zaufania, konieczne jest, by osoby głosujące rozumiały, jak system wyborczy działa.

> To jest niełatwe nawet przy korzystaniu z papierowych kart wyborczych.

> Zastąpienie urny wyborczej komputerem znacznie utrudnia zrozumienie i audyt systemu.

🧵/2

@rysiek bardzo ciekawy, rzeczowy artykuł, oraz fajna dyskusja tutaj na Masto.

@rysiek
Dobry artykuł. Temat wymaga rozwinięcia i kontynuacji.

@rysiek

It's very doubtful anything will come out of that initiative, but I signed it nonetheless. Thanks!

@rysiek what a mess of a website. My phone has trouble scrolling it.

@rysiek it'll end the only possible way: they will emigrate to where taxes are lower.

it's happening right now in California.

https://www.bankier.pl/wiadomosc/Kalifornijski-exodus-trwa-Powodem-za-wysokie-podatki-8675441.html

@rysiek Between 9th and 11th century the word "Gift" started shifting its meaning so it could become "poison" in the modern German language.

@rysiek whenever I talk about my past my therapist says there's a lot to unpack there so you might have a point

@rysiek metoda na ból z Niemiec, trafiło do spamu bo nie działa ma ból z Polski 😉

@rysiek otwórz maila! Tam na pewno są wszystkie odpowiedzi :)

@rysiek rynek używanych stawów sprowadzanych z Niemiec kwitnie, bo co dziesiąty Polak ma rozwalone kolana od chodzenia po bułki bez prawidłowego przygotowania.

@rysiek The other part of the dilemma: free as in freedom, or free as in free labor?

@rysiek

"free as in puppy"

@rysiek The pile-on that has been going on is ugly and thank you for saying something. Admns put in a lot of time, money, and energy. I’ve only been here since October and I really think those who recently joined should think twice before making accusations about people they know nothing about. Hope people cool down.

@rysiek

Some fedi admins make fedi happen, others break fedi. Not all of them are good, and not all of them are bad.
If you want to choose your community and who can talk to you then you don't need someone else to do this work. There is no need for fedi admins if you use a single-user instance.

If so many admins put so much effort into making decisions for other people then let's decentralize this case too. Let's get rid of admins at all. And let everyone decide.

@rysiek If #FediAdmins are officially accepting hugs then I am sending one to @thomas coz he's the admin of metalhead.club and he works so hard and he rocks 😊
Also to @stux coz he doesn't know it but he helped me with really useful info on Mastodon with his posts when I needed it and I never got round to saying thank you.
Thank you both 🤩

@rysiek Without pseudo-exclusive scarce invites, there is no reason to feel smug and elitist about being there. Might have been an important driving factor.

@rysiek They’re pulling the EXACT same “exclusive access” trick Zuckerberg pulled with Facebook in the early years.

@rysiek billionaire bootlicking

@rysiek Kbemmy? Lekbin?

@rysiek *insert gnu/Linux copypasta but adjusted to kbin/Lemmy*

@rysiek@mstdn.social #Lemmy was what led me to join the #fediverse! I heard of Mastodon before, but didn't felt the need to join as I'm not accustomed to microblogging. I hope the recent spike encourages more users to diversify their social media.

It's going to be cray-cray over then next few days. Manage your spoons well.

The wave of sign-ups will come and go, but burn-out or some bad moderation decisions will affect a community for a long, long time.

It's better to slowly but reliably build a small, resilient, safe space than to try to go hockey-stick on sign-ups only to have people get burnt, abandon their accounts, and tell their friends about it.

We're playing the long game.

Keep calm and be excellent to each other.

#Lemmy #KBin

@rysiek these people have made graphics cards profoundly expensive, have shown no interest in increasing accessibility and disability services, privately celebrated the Dobbs decision, do nothing to ensure equity at their workplaces, and now they're slowly organizing into a religious movement.

This isn't about social reform. This is about power. And this utopia that these people are trying to create would be the most unequal society ever.

This setting should have been default-on, IMVHO.

But that's "water under the dam", quoting one of the best scenes in one of the most under-rated movies out there.