Kichae

they have to follow all the similar communities

See, this compulsion needs to be killed off. Because no, they absolutely do not have to.

It sounds like community pruning is the better solution here. Users don't need to find dead remote communities in their search results. If there are multiple active communities, that's not an issue, and there's no real reason to homogenize them behind lizard brain FOMO. If there's one active community and 6 dead ones, there's no reason for users to find any of the dead ones.

Forcibly merging communities that exist on completely different websites just because they run the same, or even just similar, software continues to scream "I want centralization".

Erm, but, uh... There's nothing about decentralization that makes it inherently ad free. We currently have an ad-free network of sites, but we also used to have an ad-free web.

Decentralization does not solve this. The only reason there's no ads here is that they haven't arrived yet.

The CEO of my company knows I exist now, and has spontaneously dropped an important project in my lap. As much as I love recognition and an opportunity to show off, this kind of attention from someone with this much power over me is kind of crushing.

Ugh. The idea that there are two forums with the same name on different websites focused on similar topics isn't a "community separation problem". The "community" is not separated. There are just separate communities discussing similar things.

Those communities are all on different websites. Different websites, with different user-bases, and different governing rules. They are not the same space, in any way, shape, or form, and you should not imagine them to be.

There's no need to want them to be, either. Content of interest to one will likely be of interest to the others, and will find its way to them. Content that is only of interest to one but not the others does not need to be seen by all.

Let go of the FOMO. It's not serving you.

Millions of people were killed by Stalin

Ok, but was Stalin a communist? Because the USSR sure as hell didn't seem like a classless, stateless society

Oh yeah, the American Empire is over. By the time anyone else is willing to trust the US again, it will no longer be important enough to care about its hissy fits.

They've been hiding behind that excuse for a decade now. How far do they get to take it? How far do they get to go before we're "allowed" to tell them to eat shit?

I like Waterfox. I started using it for the JXL support. But it's significantly more memory-leaky than the current version of Firefox, and small FOSS teams seem to think the standard amount of RAM sold in laptops today is comically low and believe we're all hauling 64+ GB or something.

Never have, never will.

So, here's the funny thing about "never will". It's not a promise you can go back on. "Never will" means "forever won't".

Changing that language is a breech of trust. Getting all "nuanced" and weasel-wordy about it doesn't change that.

Folks should start looking into whether the previous promise is legally binding in any way, and start preparing for a class action suit if it is. Because Mozilla's better dead than it is as zombie smoke screen for this horse shit.

Isn't it, though? Isn't this how the USA has treated most countries smaller than it? Less wealthy than it? Less white than it?

Growing up outside of the US, this behaviour seems completely in line with how the country has always behaved on the international stage, just pointed at one of the "good" countries.

Trump is the average Murica, Fuck Yeah type that we meet online all of the time, and have for the past 30+ years. He's the Yankee tourist that comes into our towns and expects us to accept their foreign currency, weather their patronizing questions, and cater to their idiosyncratic demands.

Trump doesn't seem like a surprise to us. He seems like the natural outcome of a country that has tooted its own horn on the world stage for 80 years, that has glorified its military and its military might, that has waved the phrase "American Exceptionalism" at its own population without irony, and that long mythologized its history. Remember, fascism was popular in the US 90 years ago. The only problem y'all had with the Nazis was that they were German. I mean, if you use Ur-Fascism as a checklist, the USA checks off most of the boxes on a good year.

You might not be cognizant of that, but many of us living outside your borders very much are.

I don't like what I see in the mirror most days, either. But I don't get to deny the grey hairs and aging face. I sure as hell don't go out in public shouting to the world "I'm not getting old; this greying, overweight man isn't me!"