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This drives me nuts. Why do his moronic cult followers keep giving him money? He's a "billionaire." LOL

From what I've read, the troll farms mostly operate funded by Russia but are physically located outside of Russia. For example, Macedonia had quite a few.

How'd you leave out Alito? haha

That's actually really good thing. In the U.S. not wanting to kill trans people makes you a "far left" person according to right-wingers. real "far left" people are pretty nuts, man. The vast majority of us are moderates who are now labeled as "far left" in the U.S. political discourse.

I'm still remote. The company forced everyone to go back 3 days a week, but it was too big of a pain for me with child care being an issue (3 year old and 5 year old). So I applied for permanent WFH and they are sitting on my application. The CTO told me that the heads of the company are not giving permanent WFH for anyone without a medical reason. He did say that he would extend my return to office date until next year, though, so at least by then my 3 year-old will be in preschool.

All in all I'm considering leaving for a permanent WFH position. The work-life balance is just way better when you have small kids.

Well it depends on why the company has never managed to turn a profit. A great example is Amazon. I think it existed for like 15 years before it first turned a profit because it was aggressively growing and spending all of their income to try to grow more.

As for Reddit, they are not growing like Amazon did. However, capturing a large user base is worth something because they may be able to monetize those users eventually. Investors view simply having a large user base as pretty valuable.

quick summary of the most notable instances i've read about:

lemmy.ml is run by pro-china folks. there's some drama surrounding that. it is defederated (fully or partially) from some other instances.

lemmy.world is the biggest lemmy instance. if you want to find something reddit-like, this would probably be the first place to try.

beehaw is a much more private instance that only has a few moderators but has stricter standards on being nice to one another. it ended up having to defederate with lemmy.world early on because it couldn't handle the moderation load from too much content.

kbin.social happened to pick up a lot of tech type folks for some reason. it was just a side project from one dev so it was not as polished at first and barely survived the incoming users but it's in a good place now. he's got a few folks helping him so the future looks bright to me at least.

Yes, the hashtag system in Mastodon needs some work. It's one thing that is really hurting discoverability.

I've been using Mastodon since Twitter was taken over by Musk, so I'm not a super long-term user, but I can give my perspective:

Platforms like kbin / lemmy are more like "topic" communities. Like people on kbin create "magazines" and on lemmy they are actually "communities". From the user perspective, you can just look for these communities you are interested in and sign up to get updates from them.

Platforms like Mastodon are more like you and specific people you like to see content from. So you find people you like to hear from and you follow them to get their updates. They may post on subjects you aren't interested in but oh well, that's up to them.

Both formats can produce desirable, tight-knit communities, but they just use different structure. In my opinion, the kbin / lemmy style is more accessible in terms of finding people interested in a specific subject but feels less personal since you are just all there to talk about a specific subject. On Mastodon, when I find people posting content I like, I end up learning more about the random nonsense they are interested in. Like my feed there has a ton of moose pictures now because one person I followed likes to post pictures of moose. I don't mind seeing them, but I never expected to see so many moose.

TLDR: Mastodon is about following people, kbin / lemmy are about following topics.

I mean he's still defaming her now and he's no longer president...

I mean he's still defaming her now and he's no longer president...

I'm not a Christian, but my wife is so we talk about these types of questions a lot.

You don't "have to be good." You have free will. However, there will be consequences after death depending on what you choose.

"If Jesus will forgive you no matter what" is not accurate. To be forgiven, you have to truly repent for your sins. Only you and God know if you are truly repentant. Would you consider yourself truly repentant if you did something bad because you expected to be forgiven? I mean remember, God is supposed to be omniscient.

Attempting to abuse the system itself would be a sin. But that could be forgiven as well if you truly repented for it.... So all in all, Christianity offers anybody hope for forgiveness, but we have no way to know who is actually forgiven in the end. That alone should be enough argument for erring on the side of caution and not sinning (assuming you accept the stated rules of the system).