Eldritch

Paid too much. And there are already alternatives shaping up. Check out piefed. Dot world has one. The user experience it’s already better than Lemmy.

For the uninitiated. Think Zucker Brothers on drugs cranked to 11.

If gaming is your main goal. Bazzite or similar should likely be your first target. If you want a more desktop experience. I’d probably recommended vanilla mint. LMDE and Debian are great. But LMDE is a side project, that gets a bit less support and updates. And Debian is about stability over cutting edge anything.

And a T-shirt cannon to do it with.

An Australian student short film produced by David Ashby and Dario Russo (of danger 5 fame). Which was an homage/send up of all those foreign reproductions.

Yeah but spiderman has nothing on Italian spiderman.

I hope there’s images. This man should be celebrated. I’m down for merch

Yes. I haven’t seen any bios of the core developers yet. But they are all set up with the graphs being very promising.

It’s an open source project hosted on codeberg. Funding ATM seems to be on patreon.

Piefed gang!

Yep. It’s great for engagement and discoverability. I wasn’t aware of the image upload thing. I tend to link. But great that they are on it.

I’m sure there will be other hurdles down the road for the project. Honestly would be interested to hear from those that admin and host both what their experiences are. That’s where a lot of the hitches are going to show.

It started of rough. Just like Lemmy. But it’s gotten fast patches in the first few days of this server opening to the public. Right now as a user it’s pretty transparent coming from Lemmy.

You just have better blocking, better cross posting. Better profiles. Better tags in piefed communities etc. As well as a number of other small things.

The piefed user experience has been far superior so far. And less “baggage” for now.

Yep, he’s the only one that is.

Yep, Kansas city is sliced through the center like a pie. St Louis is a different kind of gerrymandered as well.

Define people. Because obviously people don’t here. The average person I talk to IRL on a daily basis don’t know what it is, have never used it, and likely never will. And a system where the people currently pushing this wouldn’t exist would certainly change things.

Your argument basically amounts to “nu uh”.

Missouri like Texas is badly gerrymandered. If our districts were fairly drawn we’d be a solidly purple state. However unfortunately, in this insane asylum. Kansas city and St Louis are locked in with slightly more banjo playing, lead pipe sucking, inbred chuds.

We can peel off just enough voters for rational non partisan ballot measures. In 2018 we voted to change the redistricting from the 2020 census to be more fair. Which our gerrymandered representation overturned last moment. Now the sick leave. And next year they’re planning to roll back the abortion rights the state voted for after they took them away before.

Democrats don’t really try to win this state. The indoctrination here doesn’t help them. But not trying most places doesn’t help more. If a 3rd party group made a concerted effort to run local candidates a lot of places would surprise you. Like I said here in the two blue islands we pretty solidly vote for Democrats. But this and select statewide offices are all they run for. I can understand to an extent not wanting to vote for a party at the state level that has no interest in you at the local level. Yes Republicans are fascist snakes, but they show up in all the rural Podunk towns. It’s not a good reason to vote for them. But I can understand why the average ignorant voter would.

There’s a lot of lead pipes here still. And massive swaths of empty land that votes against anyone that might try to maintain or replace them via the necessary step of raising taxes.

Kansas city and St Louis didn’t vote for Republicans. Unfortunately both blue patches aren’t quite half the States population. But were close enough that there governor is looking to take away our representation.

Yes, I have seen posts on it. Sufficed to say, despite being an anarchist. I don’t have an account there for reasons. And don’t agree with everything they do.

The situation with those bans I might consider heavy handed and perhaps overreaching. But by the same token it’s a bit of a reflection of some of those that are banned. Overzealous and lacking nuance etc.

The funny thing is. They pretty much dislike the tech bros as much as anyone here does. You generally won’t ever find them defending their actions. They want AI etc that they can run from their home. Not snarfing up massive public resources, massively contributing to climate change, or stealing anyone’s livelihood. Hell many of them want to run off the grid from wind and solar. But, as always happens with the left. We can agree with eachother 90%, but will never tolerate or understand because of the 10%.

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We do know the scale. Your use of “the state” with reference to anarchism. Implies you’re unfamiliar with it. Anarchism and communism are against “the state” for the reasons you’re also warry of it. It’s too powerful and unanswerable.

The point is, most wouldn’t. It’s of little real use currently, especially the LLM bullshit. The communities would have infinitely better things to pit resources to.