Roundcat

Roundcat , 10 months ago to fediverse in Has anyone defederated your instance? Introducing Defederation Investigator

This won't be abused at all...

Roundcat , 10 months ago to technology in Blocking is going to be deleted from Twitter

That if these people really cared about social justice, they would have put their money where their mouths were and left long ago, instead of constantly making excuses and justifying their continued presence there.

I don't care how they spin it, their activity on x undermines the marginalized people they claim to support. By continuing to post updates and posts there, and nowhere else, they keep their userbase on the site, which contributes to site traffic, which contributes to ad revenue, which contributes to Musk financially, which contributes to politicians, organizations, and causes that wish to peel back rights to workers, racial minorities, women, and queer people.

These are some of the same people that argued continuing to consume Harry Potter, or shopping at Hobby Lobby and Chic-Fil-A were harmful acts. As a queer person, I often agree with their messages, but I am getting so. fucking. tired of the hypocrisy in some of these people. And twitter/X has been the biggest integrity check for me.

And no, they can't use the system argument that explains why they participate in capitalism despite being anti-capitalists. We all need to interact with capitalism in one way or another to survive. Most people don't need fucking twitter. Especially when there are so many alternate platforms, and I'm not even talking about just microblogs either.

Fuck they don't even throw a line to some of the smaller platforms. If they did that at least, people who don't feel safe using the site, or don't want to support Musk financially, wouldn't have to view their content from halfway broken nitter. But nope, no account on any mastodon server, no attempt to establish themselves on bluesky, or hell any regular updates on the threads account they made but never use.

And many of us queer users, these stripping away of protections and features hurt us the most. Many left cause they didn't feel safe anymore, and that is part of the reason many of us are on fediverse. We see better than anyone who these influencers and content creators actually care about. None of them followed us here. None of them even throw us a bone. We're are forced to look through a frosted window, or do without, and at this point, I have found myself doing more of the latter.

Either stick to your fucking principles or admit you have an addiction you can't easily kick. But please for the love of god stop trying to paint your remaining there as righteous or justified.

Roundcat , 10 months ago to technology in Blocking is going to be deleted from Twitter

Musk: (literally shocks you with electricity for using the site)

Twitter leftists/liberals: My followers are here, fediverse is CoMpLiCaTeD, I need to stay here to reach people, there are no good alts, there is no ethical consumption under capitalism, I'm staying in protest, I can leave whenever I want...

Roundcat , 10 months ago to foodporn in Takoyaki - たこ焼き

うまいそう！たこ焼きが大好きだけど、いつも食べるたびに口とのどもやけどしまう！

Roundcat , 10 months ago to memes in Saw this on feddit.de and want to share the idea.

My memes are for anyone on the internet to see, and hell even use. They usually don't take a lot of effort to make, and its not like a lot of my ideas are entirely original anyway. I'd be flattered more than anything that someone thought of my jokes worthy of repeating.

Roundcat , 10 months ago to retrogaming in Sega SG-1000 Commercial [1983]

I love how the commercials are like "We also have mahjong and golf for your dad!"

Roundcat , 10 months ago to technology in ULTRARAM will allow you to close your laptop, come back a thousand years later and pick up where you left off

So does it allow this by granting immortality or by necromancy?

Roundcat , 10 months ago to memes in Like I get there are several reasons people remain. It just feels kinda weird to listen to a podcaster or youtuber go off on twittter, yet they still use twitter exclusively.

You're talking to a site with many former redditors who left a lot of comfort and communities behind to tell the reddit staff they can't get any with infringing on users' safety, comfort, and accessibility. afaic they are superior cause by simply being here, helping fediverse grow, and interacting with reddit as little as possible, they are sending that message louder and clearer than any of the redditors who caved in their protests and remained.

I shit on former redditors a lot. I complain about some of the culture they dragged along with them that is neither conductive or helpful to creating meaningful conversation. I even complain sometimes this place can feel a lot like reddit at times. But if there is one thing I can say about much of the former reddit community here is they are people of their convictions. Their integrity meant more to them than the comfort they enjoyed on the former site.

Roundcat , 10 months ago to world in New Covid wave has begun and masks should be worn again, scientists warn

It's a conundrum for me in my part of the US. Do I risk catching covid or catching hands from stupid people?

Roundcat , 10 months ago to technology in Google search is over

Maybe it's because I have ad blockers on, and try to avoid AI like the plague, but my google searches are giving me actual results rather than what you're describing.

Then again, I know google gives different results based on the user.

Roundcat , 10 months ago to mildlyinteresting in Tokay Geckos Look Like Mini Dinosaurs

What an adorable little Yoshi!

Roundcat , 10 months ago to memes in The Kbin Experience

It hasn't been doing that for me though. Like I'll go to the community, and it will not be there. Either that or it won't be visible or interactible to me.

Like I can see and interact with my lemmy account, but not on my kbin threads outside of seeing it from the profile.

Roundcat , 10 months ago to news in ‘Everything you’ve been told is a lie!’ Inside the wellness-to-fascism pipeline

"Step one, add only the whitest flour, free from any impurities."

Roundcat , 10 months ago to news in ‘Everything you’ve been told is a lie!’ Inside the wellness-to-fascism pipeline

I think anything can be twisted into a pipeline to fascism if prominent people within a community are pushing it. Let's take My Little Pony for example. You would think that would be the last place for fascism to foment, but there are certain communities online that have pushed it in that direction.

Roundcat , 10 months ago to news in ‘Everything you’ve been told is a lie!’ Inside the wellness-to-fascism pipeline

I don't think she meant to mention you. OP is a mastodon user, and it automatically mentions the OP plus the person you are replying to when creating a response.