ColonelSanders

I literally just had a friend tell me he joined Threads and how neat it was, etc etc and when I explained why I wouldn't be joining him, he basically just gave me the old "Well I already know they have all my information so it doesn't matter"

...like wtf? So you just...give up having any privacy whatsoever? I just couldn't respond to him after that, I don't really know how to respond to that. There's a disease spreading in the world unfortunately and it isn't just COVID. It's one called Apathy and too many people are coming down with it.

Ok, but only if I get to make the next post that complains about people complaining about people who complain about Reddit. Or...something.

*Donaghy, and at least Jack had Liz to act as a moral compass/course correction. David is just another asshat CEO with no moral or ethical scruples.

I know Reddit would have a field day if I said this over there, and maybe here would too, but...

Should be more like "Fascists go kill yourselves" because fuck fascists.

It's weird to think about but for some reason that's my favorite go-to exclamation when I'm genuinely shocked at something.

"What in the Cinnamon Toast Crunch is that?!"

Which begs the questions: What comes next? How does late stage capitalism "end"? Will it collapse in on itself? What will replace it? I don't know the answers to these, but it certainly feels like we're entering (or about to enter) the "find out" phase.

I posted a similar comment elsewhere but along the same line of thought: The sad thing is that the masses that are still on Reddit at this point dgaf and will likely stay on Reddit forever. There's a real problem of Apathy in today's culture when people are just jonesing for their fix of daily content/memes, or at the very least nothing that disrupts the status quo. They don't give a fuck about "ideals" or what corporations do or farm from them so long as their instant gratification and daily intake of said content remains unchanged.

Liquidator Spez. RCA (Reddit Commerce Authority)

Turns out one of the users they alienated was Morn. He was their best customer. And his stomach was full of latinum.

Long post/response incoming so apologies in advance (tl;dr is near the bottom in bold).

You are correct; Think of it like emails. Particularly the @outlook vs @gmail vs @yahoo, except with @lemmy and @kbin.

You can have a JohnJacob372@lemmy and a JohnJacob372@kbin and it be two separate people with the same username, but different "instances" just like email addresses.

The point is though, that everything that's part of the "fediverse" (Lemmy and Kbin are two of the biggest but there also exist others like Fedia.io) is connected in a way that if you're on one, you can see posts from the others. Ex: If JohnJacob372@lemmy posts an article on Lemmy, it'll show up on your kbin feed/frontpage and you can comment on it along with the lemmy folks.

You can tell where it originated from because it'll say next to the username and magazine (magazine is what you might call a subreddit, but again, you can have same named subs as well, one on Kbin and one on Lemmy). Ex: [email protected] 2 hours ago to [email protected].

If you don't see the @ part after the name or magazine, it means it was posted by someone on your same instance (otherwise it would be "redundant" to say "JohnJacob372 from your neighborhood on Main Street just posted a flyer in your neighborhood on Main Street" when you can just say "JohnJacob372 posted a flyer on Main Street").

So recap (tl;dr):
Instance = Platform (like Lemmy and Kbin)
Magazine = Subreddit
Username@InstanceA can post on Subreddit@InstanceA, and Anyone@InstanceA can read posts on AnySubreddit@AnyInstance (so long as the instance is "federated" i.e. part of the Fediverse Network like Lemmy and Kbin).

Hopefully that helps. You can stop here if you don't want to be confused more, but I will say this:

It may be beneficial, at least in the early days, to have an account on different instances. Mainly because each instance is ran on personal servers by individuals which can have a lot of problems, especially when they are overloaded (like during large migrations from Reddit to here). Having an account on another Instance is like having another account on another Server that can still access the same posts, but because it's a different server, it might be up and running while the other is down for maintenance.

Ideally, apps will eventually be able to switch between instances automatically, but for now, it's easier for app developers to focus on one instance at a time which is why you see different apps for Lemmy and Kbin. This is where my own understanding could be fuzzy because afaik you should still be able to access posts from both (all) instances, it's just that you would need to have an account on the instance/server that app is based on. So an app for Lemmy means you would need to have a Lemmy account, but you should still be able to access/read content posted on Kbin. I think. I could be wrong and you can only see/access content on Lemmy if that's the case. But even then, it won't be forever. These things take time but it's definitely an achievable goal.

While corporate greed has been a problem since the Reagan administration, we're seeing an unprecedented jump in greed these past couple of years by companies all suddenly trying to squeeze out every last drop from people. Netflix with it's disabling of user password sharing, Twitter and all it's checkmark BS (with this login wall being the latest example), Reddit and it's API changes, and YouTube experimenting with blocking people who use adblockers. All to name a few. It really is spiraling out of control and unchecked, but sadly we lack a proper government (at least in the US, though there may still be some hope in the EU) to stand up to them.

If you put the phone in airplane mode, you can get the app to load the UI at least. Doesn't do/mean anything but I suspect I'll be doing it out of nostalgia a lot in the coming months.