yeah. everythings a culture. even dickish nationalist type have a culture. there is nerd culture and gay culture. of course there is still going to be trumphole culture. its not immune.

Honestly I would prefer this over data centers. but the value of the currency earned is less than what the user spends on electricity to do it though.

no here its based on public votes. trustcafe you rate everything 0-100 and everything starts at 50. users, posts, replies, urls, whatever. everything can be rated. I want the sorting to just use the users preferences and not other peoples although I don’t mind a degrees of freedom setting. like taking into account the rankings other people you highly rank give things.

yeah I don’t think yesterday had more traffic that any other day before historically.

rolling your own can have pretty small downtime. The biggest issue in the past was places did not want to spend on hardware that did not do anything but take over. Also disk failure was the most common big issue which is way lower with ssd’s. it does not take a whole lot of spend to keep downtime away but so many places want to pinch every penny.

linux on computer but stock android on my phone. keep in mind I don’t like smartphones though and I only have one because I had to get one for a previous job. if I replace it with a smartphone it will be for work reasons.

yeah its more of an in the spirit of going to school there from a if I had to do over again thing. Also though I took spanish because it was kinda the default in the us and looked at as the easiest to learn because so many words were close to ours. I found the sentence structure really killed me. The other language I wish I had maybe took is german but that was because many german words on used in science. In particular chemistry and then I also did a fair amount of choral stuff and there are many german classical works.

oh I feel this sentiment. I feel so many bad things in the world are people just making life harder when it could be so much better.

yeah its more to do better if I found something in montreal. Im basically in my last decade of my career and have a wife with medical issues. Its just not feasible at this point. Im a native english speaker just a bad speller and with writing along the lines of official english rules you get graded on. My best english grades were like creative writing.

Yeah toronto is basically a lot like my city but you can bring your dog on the train. I had to put a muzzle on my dog when she was a pup because while walking everything would go in the mouth. She hated it. I guarantee though that if I put one on and went on a train then the next time I pulled it out she would be sticking her snout in to go to the people tube. Montreal is also really neat but I don’t speak french. One of my do over life things would be to take french in high school and maybe in two years of community college and then see if I could get any scholarships in toronto/montreal. Honestly though when it came to grades foreign language was my lowest grades and english classes were my second lowest.

before you block him. which im always kinda on the fence on with smcf. hes trolls a lot. it will be apparent if you look at his profile. he has claimed to me in the past its not trolling but I kinda have a hard time believing it again given his responses. he does do it so much though and does press the schtick so much that as I said I have been on the fence. He really reminds me a lot of kinda once removed friends I have known. Not one of my direct friends but in the group. Its kinda nostalgic for me. Ill be honest im about a tenth as sarcastic as I was when younger and still pretty sarcastic. I just had to tone it down on the internet because its something that works better in person and also honestly its better with folks that know each other well.

oooh. im going to be reading this. im to old to move there really and to be honest Im a city boy so its really some of the cities that entice me. it will be interesting to see the replies.

there has got to be a ton. I only know american ones and a handful of ones from other countries. I mean wednesday was veterans day.

yeah the broadcast news is saying its not supposed to do that but isn’t ai not supposed to randomly hack another site and such. haven’t we been innudated with ai going outside its parameters articles?

I don’t see how our desires are opposing. I just want control of which things I see based on my preferences. im not saying communities can’t exist. I like the forum format.

yeah the 90 aint here yet. I kinda view it as an additional feature. anyone who can’t handle it im pretty fine not being on it. trust cafe has a pretty good example where you can give everything a rating and your personal ratings will determine your feed.

of course my prefered local news is showing judy justice but abc is live with it. sounds like the automated air traffic control systems are having problems.

came to say this. I came during that upheval over here. Ironically not so much because of the api thing as much as I had found there was an alternative. I think I had seen things about mastadon before but I never liked the twitter thing so it did not appeal. When I found out there was an open source and not centralized control forum experience like this I was jazzed.

different instances have different bends and individuals choose instances randomly so can be on something way off from themselves without realizing it given they don’t have to consume their own instances content.

I don’t even like leaning to heavily on moderation. I want emphasis to be on users ability to curate their feed.