StaticBoredom

This is SUCH a good post. I love the energy of embracing the new, even with its inconveniences, and perhaps especially with them.

I’ve felt for years that this drive for convenience at any cost not only helps create bland societies and exacerbate environmental and economic destruction, but it also makes each of us that much less adaptable every year.

I’m weak as fuck, but I still believe there is essential value to be had in some discomfort and inconvenience on a somewhat regular basis, and this also goes for community-building, which I feel very fortunate to be witnessing in real-time.

Decentralization is not only the future, I fear it’s our only hope of maintaining an internet that is truly free as opposed to one built solely for data collection and corporate profit.

Goddamn. I know people suffering with long covid. It doesn’t seem fun at all.

tl;dr I don’t understand feminism, at all.

….and the fact that you’re even showing appreciation is a huge step in the right direction.

Early adoption of new tech usually requires a couple things from users, in my experience. Patience, and a willingness to contribute in whatever way you can. If Kbin, Lemmy et al can get an influx of users that bring at least one of these two things, we’ll go far.

That, and @ernest will need some kind of support from many of us.

Great shout out to Open Collective. Better to support open source community efforts than yet another corpo-profit-machine