I cannot obtain food and housing without work. I am being coerced to work under duress. I would like to get off this planet now. Like right now.

IRC was king for a while but then it rotted and nobody repaired it

Except this doesn’t work like it should

/c/books

And therefore lemmy is broken, by design

And it will not work because lemmy’s owner class wants to keep their fiefdoms to themselves unfortunately

0.001$ per watt would be way ducking better

Realistically, firefox will monetize advertising. But as long as they remain true to open source, we will have the forks to strip out the nasty bits. The normies will get less violated than elsewhere and people in the know will still have the dream browser.

This 500 million per year pay cut is going to hurt no matter what.

Documenta PDF omnia custodiunt.

Elites do not have to follow the rules, that’s the one reason to become an elite in the first place!

Oh that’s semantic bleeding in the wild.

I mean, I rather not, but I rather not pay extra for nothing, usually saves 10- 30%

It’s a process for me, I open hundreds of tabs, save all URLs, strip trackers from URLs, remove duplicates, then I reload all tabs into a fresh, empty multiaccount container, then I use a scraper addon called gatherfromtabs to pickup all the prices, then I log and setup everything up to the last page of the sale, I tally up all the totals in excel, order by price, usually 100s of ads, find the absolute 3 cheapest ones, review the ads really thoroughly to avoid scams and then buy 10-20x of whatever this item was to make it worth my time.

This process will become more difficult over time.

We let them and also you need quite a lot of skill to overcome it as it is a kind of a cat and mouse game. And there’s a end game of "tell us who you are or else we don’t tell you the price, or we tell you only the ‘highest price that nobody pays’ "

I got some temu stuff. A 7$ bag heat sealer. Works perfectly fine.

However, I do not abide surveillance pricing. I can defeat the surveillance pricing but the procedure annoys me, so I’ve gone back to aliexpress which is easier to defeat.

Laws need to be different for monopolies and large player. Stop the rich from using the small as human shield for their grotesqie practice.

How does the EU not have its own link engine? EU being pathethic not just IP nulling all of silicon valley and their garbage products from the continent.

Yes, I never got past that stage. It seems most instances are either nazis, crybullies or flake. I guess first step of joining mastodon is buying a domain name to run a server instance on and then join mastodon as a single user instance. But then I assume most servers also ban single user instance and I just could not be bothered to join was is probably “worse twitter” when I never participated in the twitter mental illness in the first place.

Yes, it’ll be part of the subscription package. Similar to your phone.

That’s regular critical mass problem. The real question is why the Xitter exodee didn’t make it to mastodon in the first place?

When I investigated, I didn’t get past the account creation stage. Because each server is its own fiefdom and your account will largely be prisoner there, the more you get tangled on it, the more you become subject to its rules. I found that unacceptable.

If there are these roadblack to you as a profficient computer toucher then I think it’s safe to say this is system is already doomed to cultural irrelevance, at best just another one of our private clubhouse nerdtoys, sad !

Hopefully this defeat in the face of bluesky shocks the dev out of their uncompromising complacency and start fighting FOR the users

Seems the solution is just turning off replies

Why don’t people want to use mastodon?

Are they following rasputin again?

Does Mastodon refuse to deal with its issues, like Lemmy?