frog_reborn

frog_reborn, 3 days ago

@JonathanMBR

Well, if he's praising people being able to put a cow on a motorcycle as an example of freedom, you know he doesn't really have a meaningful point. Seems more like a libertarian weirdo.

frog_reborn, 6 days ago

@lunastation

I have a hard time imagining that person was ever actually poor if she can write something like that.

frog_reborn, 6 days ago

@raphaelmorgan @lunastation

Okay, but how does it track for you if you have no frame of reference for half of it?

And I'm sure libraries can be helpful for many in times of poverty, while they might be utterly meaningless for others. Just like there are lots of well off people who never step a foot into a library and never feel a lack of anything.

I get that the quote is basically just a poetic way of saying "books are extremely important to me", but I feel that by turning it into this...

frog_reborn, 6 days ago

@raphaelmorgan @lunastation

...generalized, life-wisdomy statement, it's basically just patronizing parts of the populations of those that might find themselves at either end of the statement in my opinion.

frog_reborn, 6 days ago

@raphaelmorgan @lunastation

And for the record, I've been poor and homeless myself and while doing somewhat better now, I'm still hovering around the poverty line. And I would trade the access to books for material safety in a heartbeat.

(Will delete this after a while, as I usually don't share that kinda stuff here)

frog_reborn, 5 days ago

@raphaelmorgan @lunastation

"But sometimes poor people care about libraries and I will die on the hill that my experiences happened"

Okay, but did I ever say anything against that? I already explicitly acknowledged that that can be the case.

frog_reborn, 9 days ago

@ncoca

Matrix is cool, too.

frog_reborn, 14 days ago

@aligyie

Technically Nostr doesn't have instances. It has something called relays though, which I think is more intended as a way to get posts from one user to another than as the kind of social home that instances are where all your data rests. Not super clear about that though.

frog_reborn, 24 days ago

@JonathanMBR

I don't think it's that easy to harvest great quantities of water without preparation. How are you gonna go about that?

frog_reborn, 1 month ago

@samxavia @6G

No, I don't think so. They can't just choose not to comply with the Mastodon license without that being illegal. They are required to provide the source code (to their customers) and afaik they started doing that once they got found out.

frog_reborn, 2 months ago

@LeftistLawyer @virtuous_sloth

One argument why that's a problem is that when there a lot of old and few young people, it can burden the social system as only a relatively few working people have to shoulder all people's pensions/healthcare etc.

Although the ageing population thing seems to mostly afflict wealthy countries while the poorer countries that have people emigrating skew young. So you'd think that something could be worked out here. But of course we can't have that because racism.

frog_reborn, 2 months ago

@LeftistLawyer @virtuous_sloth

I don't understand how that's relevant here.

frog_reborn, 2 months ago

@hisham_hm @liaizon

"That just fell right into Meta's lap as a "there's no agreed-upon logo"."

I'm not sure that would have made a difference. My guess is that the reason why they made a new one has very little to do with whether there's an established one already or not and everything to do with branding. They're gonna make an effort to have all the little icons and design elements on their site speak the same design language, because that's the "professional" way to do it.

frog_reborn, 2 months ago

@hisham_hm @liaizon

I feel like any effect the logo might have on "reshaping the perception of the fediverse" was at best a secondary concern way behind "let's pick something that aligns with our visuals".
But even if not done with direct intent it's still a bit of a cautionary tale about how profit oriented actors several dimensions bigger can possibly even unintentionally warp the whole landscape for the worse simply by way of having different priorities and incentives.