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We’ve had discussions about this, with and without our kids. Yeah, they need to be in the loop with their friends, and being in that loop can mean being exposed to some bullshit.

That’s always been the case, though. The additional risk of modern social media, I think, is that it’s always with you. One of the rules we laid down was to plug your phone in outside your room before you go to bed. That was relatively strongly enforced when they were younger, just getting started in that arena. They’re all essentially adults now, so we don’t enforce it anymore, but they sometimes still do it anyway.

It’s important to be connected, and it’s okay to be disconnected when you want to be.

Damn kids, get out of my yard

It was before chat services arrived.

You know what’s exactly as decentralized as fediverse? Email. Do you know anyone who doesn’t use email?

This is what I used before work took away my nice phone and replaced it with a bullshit iPhone. Switched to Overcast since PA is not available for iOS.

The one I got earlier today pleaded:

My dad just lost his job and I have no money for tuition next semester. Please help me raise money so I can keep going to school! Donate anything you can to these bitcoin and litecoin addresses <3

I don’t think it’s anything more complicated than trying to scam money from people.

The assumptions that people make about age boggle my mind. You know that the people who made the internet are all “old” now, right?

I’d say that a lot of the accounts which do a lot of posting/commenting are run by teenagers — because most adults probably wouldn’t have the time for that much posting.

Challenge accepted.

Lemmy is a server application. Mastodon is a server application. Pixelfed is a server application.

I don’t use Lemmy. Never have. And yet here I am.

Yeah it’s even worse than that.

fedia.io is a specific “provider” in this context. fedia.io runs on mbin. Lemmy is analogous to mbin. Many “providers” run on lemmy: lemmy.world, lemmy.dbzer0.com, lemmy.wtf, etc.

What is being provided is fediverse access. “Fediverse” is not my mostest favorite term, but it’s the one that’s most accurate.

Oh god no. That’s like “I chose Burger King as my McDonald’s provider.”

Since you’re on fedia.io, which runs mbin, I can answer some of that for you.

Under a post (or a comment for that matter) there is a “More” link. “Open original URL” will open a new tab of that post or comment at the instance the user the post or comment was from.

So if I Open original URL on this post, it will open a new tab at fedia.io for this post - because you posted it, and you posted it from your fedia.io account, at that instance.

However, if I Open original URL for the comment by @meldrik@lemmy.wtf a new tab will open of that comment in this post at lemmy.wtf.

That’s how that function works, but the reasons you’d actually want to do it are limited. Perhaps the instance you’re viewing the post through is defederated from some other instance, and so you wouldn’t see comments from users at that instance. Opening the post “somewhere else” that wasn’t defederated from the instance you wanted to see comments from would then let you see them - but not interact there, unless you also had an account at that instance.

So far as I know, fedia.io is only defederated from a very small number of tankie-heavy instances (lemmy.ml and hexbear/chapo.chat are the ones that come to mind). I don’t think the thing you are asking about doing really has a use case.

GMail did this early on, and it most definitely worked.

NO YOU’RE WRONG

I was on reddit for sixteen years, and on digg and a little slashdot for several years before that. I spend a lot of time in places like these. I’m not even on a super popular instance, and there’s plenty of content here.

The Celts originally occupied the Iberian peninsula, Gaul, Germania, Ireland, and Britain. What we know of the Celts comes primarily from the Romans, since the Celts didn’t have a written language. What little bits of writing remain from the Celts was near the early Roman Empire, and in vulgar Latin.

Of course, the Romans ultimately conquered a lot of those areas, into Britain up to about Hadrian’s Wall. I believe they semi-conquered Cornwall and Wales, to the extent that they “ruled” those areas, but still left them generally to their own devices. Only Wales really retained its relative independence, as is evidenced by the fact that Welsh still exists, while Cornish is barely holding on after having become extinct and then revived.

The reason I compared “pagan” to “hillbilly” and “redneck” is because plenty of people wear those names with pride, too, even while many other people continue to use them in derogatory ways.

In fact, the word “pagan” appears to be slightly derogatory, along the lines of “hillbilly” or “redneck.”

The word “Celt” does not carry that kind of connotation, at least not in the word by itself.

It’s 2025, they’re called Celts.

https://wip.tumblr.com/post/773574776721702912/about-a-year-ago-wordpress-ceo-matt-mullenweg

You’re free to take whatever tone you want. Tone aside, I see that all you ever really do is rant about “libs” and blame everyone for fascism except fascists.

This does not make sense.