| Location | Delaware |
| Age | Born in '81 |
| Orientation | 🏳️🌈 |
I've finally started reading this one. Fifty pages in and so very good thus far! Very immersive writing and so many delicious details—I've started taking notes!
#butcheringart #lindsayfitzpatrick #victorianera #victorian #19thcentury #history #goth #medical #england #gothic #thebutcheringart
Do your best to resist #cynicism, because cynicism destroys nuance, and almost everything valuable in life exists inside nuance.
Resist saying #cynical things like “who cares about privacy; your data is already out there”, “who cares about stopping climate change; it’s already too late”, “who cares about voting; we don’t have a democracy any more”, and any number of similarly simplistic, thought-destroying nonsense.
Cynicism is faux-intellectualism. It’s attempting to impress people with rational-sounding generalizations that lead to absurd, defeatist behavior. It’s a claim of “being real” while being too lazy to think through the problem. It’s feeling superior by kicking a table on which someone else is doing their homework.
Nuance exists even during a crisis—it’s arguably even more important then. Things can ALWAYS get worse, and things can ALWAYS get better. Working to make things better is worth doing. Feeling smug and telling people to give up is not; it’s the asshole’s easy way out.
I've received 5 VC offers "to chat" regarding Pixelfed in the past few days.
Not for sale.
Pixelfed belongs to the people.
I'd rather be broke and true to my beliefs, than sell out.
That's why I'm organizing a Kickstarter to fund the ethical development of Pixelfed, Loops and more.
It's time that someone stood up to them, instead of joining them.
Are you with me?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixelfed/pixelfed-foundation-2024-real-ethical-social-networks
Fediverse question.
If we are encouraged to join an instance based on some interest/community/appealing factor, and also told that we can take our audience if we choose to leave that instance, why does the instance even matter? Are we more likely to see posts from our own instance or server? What is the difference between our audience and our community? #fediverse #socialmedia #mastodon #instances #decentralized #fediversequestions
The question of usernames in the fediverse...
For a person or a business who has a lot invested in a name, should we be more worried about the potential for fraud and impersonation? Typically when you had a business idea, you'd check socials for name availability, and create accounts on all the platforms to reserve that name. With the nature of the fediverse, there are no real official usernames, because they all include the app/server you use, and there are endless servers. #fediverse
Dave Rahardja
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