People are allowed to use the Fediverse differently than you do.

No, your preferences are not norms or mores.

Not every post is about you. (Almost none of them are, in fact.)

Not every piece of advice has to be relevant to you to be valuable.

Nobody owes you a hashtag.

People can post pictures of things you find uninteresting or distasteful. (Yes, they should use alt text.)

People are allowed to post their work.

People are allowed to *promote* their work.

People are allowed to ask for help, including monetary help.

There is more than one thing going on in the world right now.

There is more than one way to help.

That joke is not about politics and doesn't benefit from your reply trying to make it about Trump.

That woman wasn't asking a question.

And yes, she gets her own joke without you explaining it to her.

Linux is *sometimes* the answer.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/116389416128065655

"Ok, who wants to follow that?"

Everybody. Everybody should want to follow that brilliant example of informed, experienced, fact based engagement with their local government.

The internet has changed. Not for the better.

A big part of it used to be linking between sites. Ideas and information connected. Now the biggest platforms downrank anything that sends you away.

Headlines used to inform. Now they’re just clickbait.

It used to feel like a place for human creativity and shared knowledge. Now it’s increasingly just computer generated content.

Feels like we’ve engineered ourselves into a corner where the internet is no longer the information hub we need.

Und unsere einzige Sorge ist, dass wir gerade nicht genug klimaschädliche fossile Brennstoffe zum Verbrennen hertransportieren können, weil 20 Prozent des globalen Öls & Gas in Hormus festestecken. #Energiewende

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/folge-der-klimakrise-deutschland-verliert-letztes-gletscher-skigebiet-15376376.html

Pete Hegseth is criticizing a rich oil nation for investing all its money in weapons instead of investing in its people.

This is the Pete Hegseth who right now is asking Congress for $200,000,000,000 for buying weapons, while Americans are losing their healthcare.