Maybe we’re all just waiting for reddit to pull another… reddit.

Ah yes, you get into the water in autumn and it’s “cold”, must 0, eh? The air in the sahara is hot, must be 100F. Boiling water is hot too, so I guess that’s 100 amirite.

Why focus on the freezing and boiling points of water at 1 atmosphere? Water boils well before 100C in Colorado, US, for example.

Because 1 atmosphere is something that can be recreated everywhere. How are you going to recreate the same conditions in Danzig from 1708 to measure 0F? 1 atmosphere can be measured by going to the ocean on any continent.

We don’t use thermometers to figure out if water’s boiling anyway. We just look at it.

I… don’t even know where to begin with that. So we should do away with celsius because you can walk outside and say “it’s hot out, guess I didn’t need a thermometer!”. “Oh honey, you feel hot, you have a fever.” Guess we don’t need celsius! “Hey Dale, what temperature’s the water? -4C? The fuck are you talking about Dale??? Is it frozen or not? Don’t give me that shit!”

We should just go back to the days where we estimated the temperature of everything. Ice? Cold. Flowing river? Warm to me, cold to the other, person, so luke-warm. Boiling water? Yeah, can only be hot. Molten metal? Really hot! Lava? Super hot! The sun super duper hot, bro!

Exposing how centralised bluesky is, once again.

Wow, it’s been 2 years already? Time flies! Cheers to the leavers

Exciting! I don’t play DotA, but this sounds like an interesting idea. You might get a good response from the people on Steam. Just post it in the dota 2 discussions. I assume that’s where the majority of them are?

I’m not saying it “like” anything. I’m stating that they are not escaping anything but moving from problem to future problem.

Isn’t email easy to use? Do people know that it’s federated? Probably not, but it’s easy to understand because they have been exposed to it for so long that it’s natural to them without knowing how it works. Why do you assume the same cannot happen for the fediverse? It’s basically social media built on top of email.

The major mistake people make is trying to explain technical stuff to people who don’t give a fuck. “Look at your email account, it’s YOURNAME@WEBSITE, well, that’s the same for lemmy and mastodon, pick a website you like, create an account, and that’s it”. Everyone knows what a website is, everyone knows what email is, everyone knows (but probably hasn’t realised) that they can send emails to SOMEBODYELSE@OTHERWEBSITE, that’s it.

Yep. That’s exactly why I’m saying it’s centralised.

Because Bluesky is centralised. You went from one serial killer’s house to another. You don’t know which serial killer owns your new house, but you’re hoping they’ll be nicer than the previous one. But at least their house is nearly as nice as the old serial killer’s house.

Ayyy, gotta have that monaaaay!

Let me guess, they’re moving to Bluesky?

I don’t even know what “it” is. A recommendation algorithm? But peertube already has a “similar” video section to the right of all videos. Does this replace that? Techies really have a problem with presenting stuff to laymen.

If any of the top 500 youtube channels joined peertube, things would surely change. Unfortunately a few of those have started their own video platforms e.g Mr Beast has his own.

I’m sure if a few of the top youtube channels of the biggest countries joined peertube that would also give an important push to peertube.

No you don’t. Revolt and rocket.chat don’t even communicate between their own servers. They are not federated.

I guess we disagree, but I’m not going to stop people from voicing their opinions and linking them to their official identities.

The problem with the internet is that it doesn’t always forget. That’s exactly why I do my best to keep my accounts separate. However, yes, semantic analysis could demask me in the future, who knows. At least it’ll give me the opportunity to say “that’s not my account”. If something is officially linked to my account, my “genius” thoughts will be bound to me and could easily be found by friends, foes, employers, whatever.

What I’m getting at is: privacy is important. Giving it up should be carefully considered, not simply done by default or thoughtlessly or “because everyone does it”.

Wordpress supports federation. Or are you looking for something else?

No worries, as a European, English isn’t my first language either :P

And as a response: if my job depended on being on the “right side of things” I wouldn’t make such controversial statements. Not only is it dumb in the moment, but also for the future. People are very polarised and even if she had changed her mind by now, there’d still be outrage “omg, look at what she said years ago! I don’t trust that she changed!”. Of course she supposedly doubled down, which is even dumber IMO, but you get the point.

I use this anonymous account because what the opinions I express here will probably evolve and I don’t want any future employer putting me into a box due to a comment made in jest, rage, or whatever. Revealing your identity online for anything other than business is just asking for trouble.

Would you if it’s something you care about

Did you forget a word?

I’m having trouble with the rest of your post too. Autocorrect must’ve struck or something.

That’s great. Since when and does everybody take psych 101?

And just to give a wider perspective (regardless of her origins), not every language makes the distinction and some up until recently did not. Look at the translations on (wiktionary). Many of them are transliterations of the English word. Which is not a surprise since the concept of gender is quite recent (1950-1960s) and was most likely very US-centric.

I don’t understand why people don’t keep such comments to their anonymous, unofficial accounts. You can hold such views in private and still treat people with respect, but saying these things officially changes everything. The co-organiser is in a space where she should know better. She then even doubled down

When asked whether she still held her more problematic views in a follow-up comment, Young responded ambiguously with “I fully stand by the statement you are commenting on.”

In for a penny, in for a pound, eh?