Oof, "active shooter" vibes, shelter in place :/
Adobe Antimatter
Orangeface is the new Blackface
I wish people would start plastering this bad boy all over the place. He haaaaaates it.

What sort of knives are you working with?
It's even wilder when you take the concept of ridgidity and transfer of energy out of the equation and just think in terms of pure information propagating though a light cone. Rigidity itself is a function of information.
*whose
No no no
You know what makes me so angry though? Looking at the way the Dems govern, even now in the face of this firehosed of shit, this was going to happen eventually. I've been thinking a lot about "who's worse, the Nazis, or people who opened the door for them?"
Alienation is a helluva drug
Sublime gang rise up 😭
Extortion, more like
I tried something like this for my office chair. It was fine as a seat, but it raised my overall position on the chair vs the backrest and i ended up throwing out my back from the resulting offset. So, mind the chair you intend to use it on.
Ban anything with FDA approval.
WROUNGG
But I am le' tired.
Then take a nap, THEN FIRE ZE MISSILES
DEEP CUTS damn I flashbacked hard
As a web dev myself, I know the sheer amount of money that would have to go into monkey patching together all these disparate protocols and ancient APIs, plus the regulatory requirements, and that's BEFORE worrying about consumer AND vendor adoption. The only reason to get into it is if the service is secondary to chasing a lucrative buyout before you get crushed by some multinational online retail cartel you never knew existed (but always suspected), or Google AEEs you.
Fintech blows.
These days, it's more like they're literally buddies behind the scenes while expressing partisan vitriol in public for show. It's fucking gross.
If I'm being honest, the only thing stopping me from shopping at other sites is having to put my personal and payment details in yet another site for it to go stale, or fall out of my memory, or get leaked in the next big hack.
Some sites have "pay with Amazon" (more likely PayPal, but... ugh. I don't remember why, but I hate it), but I'd love to see some universal adoption of some sort of payment and shipping details lockbox. Like SSO where you can revoke access to subscribers or something.
Yes, well, my spoon is too big.
Bullet points and parentheticals

Re: Defederation - Does Lemmy need a charter?
Edit: Shit, I probably should have made the title plural - "Does Lemmy need charters?"
From the great discussion below, some clarifying thoughts:
- Not advocating for a SINGLE charter, and less of a system and more of a... convention.
- In my universe, groups of instances could get together and come up with some common governing strategies that set them apart from other instances.
- Given common strategies, other instances can opt in to get in on that sweet, ethical branding.
- What I sketched out below was thinking specifically around what a single charter could look like addressing the immediate issues facing Lemmy to date. A prototype for the convention, even.
/Edit
Looooong time r/all lurker here, something like 10+ years on reddit with maybe 10 comments. I've seen a lot go down.
I'm seeing a lot of hand wringing around defederating Meta, Threads, and even handling problematic instances within the Lemmyverse itself.
It's tiring to see these things come in