Reddit Refugee
I tend to go with the “distract myself” method. Think about some song, movie, game, etc. Keeps the brain from ruminating on that shit. And usually can manage it long enough that the thought’s barely a vague memory afterwards.
Basically, the idea is: Don’t feed the demon.
The real problem I have with conditions embedding themselves in how I define myself is with the depression rather than the unemployment. I’ve only been unemployed a little over thirteen months. The depression is a chronic problem I’ve experienced on one level or another for roughly twenty years. Between the two, the depression definitely strikes deeper to the core. It’s just that the current episode is pretty tough to deal with as long as I am dealing with the isolation created by this unemployment.
Still unemployed. Still in the middle of a depressive episode because of this.
Exactly. We can’t trust them to act in good faith.
To me, the argument for accepting Meta into the Fediverse goes beyond gain and loss. If you run an Internet service, you have a moral obligation to make a good faith attempt to interoperate with anyone using the protocol as intended.
But that’s the thing: We don’t trust that Meta will be using the protocol “as intended”.
Battle’s not over until the third party apps go offline. That’s when the real damage is bound to start.
Same here. Cancelled the day the blackout started as sort of a personal statement. Not that I expect that statement to be heard by anyone.
CEO Steve Huffman told me in an interview last week, “90-plus percent of Reddit users are on our platform, contributing, and are monetized either through ads or Reddit Premium. Why would we subsidize this small group? Why would we effectively pay them to use Reddit but not everybody else who also contributes to Reddit?”
It’s called a “loss leader,” Steve.
Dude’s sounding like the kind of guy that cuts IT, security, and janitorial because they don’t bring in revenue. But then, he did say he’s following the Musk model. Which is, basically, that.
“I learned it from you, Spez! I learned it from you!”
Whether or not they actually used the office, they still owed rent, did they not?
Yeah, basically a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy…
When the “vocal minority” are the ones providing quality content and weeding out the crap (i.e. power users and mods), it will take its toll. That minority is critical for making the whole thing work.
Sounds up his alley.
Yeah, the “Manson Family”. The murders he is best known for (Sharon Tate and co.) were actually performed by his followers. He was convicted on the basis of conspiracy. Though apparently he was directly involved in a couple other murders as well.
Anyway, supposedly the Manson Family had this idea about a major race war (predicted by The Beatles’ White Album, of all things). They expected to wait out the war and then emerge and rule the ashes. Though Manson himself denied that scenario he was following, I think some of his followers supported it.
Isn’t that what Charles Manson thought about the supposed race war?
he resorted to the only way he apparently knows how to communicate: lying.
Why stop at defaming Apollo, right?
Right. I don’t think spez realizes that most of the blacked out communities themselves actually support the black outs. A lot of them had votes on the matter. They had healthy discussion about it. These mods are not overruling their communities.
What. The. Fuck. Is wrong. With. These people?
I managed to do that with Abbey Road of all things, though a Round Trip example. Started the album on my way out. Paused it while doing some errands. Went home, and it finished up just as I pulled in. Of course, I had to get lucky with traffic flow, so I don’t expect to be able to intentionally repeat it.