Yo! I don’t intend to invalidate your opinion of religion. But I would like to share a personal counter opinion of mine. In my 20s, I was an atheist and severely depressed. Life had no meaning, no objective, etc. And I saw that as a bad thing. After finding Buddhism, more specifically, Zen Buddhism, as described by Alan Watts, I found peace. With the knowledge that life was to be taken like a dance. Pointlessly going nowhere, but enjoying the trip. And so I’m still here. I use this as an anecdote of religion being good.

Of course, religion can be used to oppress, like anything else. Oppression using kindness as pretense exists. But I find it’s better to look at it in a case by case basis, rather than generalizing. If being religious helps you live life, then it’s good. If it doesn’t help you, then it’s bad. Those are my 2 cents on this, anyway.

Life is full of cycles. Every beginning has an end. And we are currently in a new beginning.

Years ago I would be heartbroken. So many good communities lost. So many posts erased. But this is for the better, I think. This time, let’s rebuild those same communities stronger, and better.

Open-source is the future, and I’m willing to invest my time on it.

Power to the people!

Personally, whatever revenue they make up in ads, they should instead ask for it in subscriptions. That would remove the incentive to promote engagement via whatever means necessary (resulting in hatred promotion and false catchy titles, to the detriment of the user), and weed out spammers. Of course, if they do that, user count will plummet. But I really don’t like what they are doing now.

Me thinks open source is the future.

And random replies! Discussions are what makes a social media, social. :)

I have to say, knowing we are humans talking to each other and not bots astro turfing everything, feels nice. Hopefully it lasts.

I have. Found a tool on Github that edited and deleted every comment or post I did and then deleted the account. So, the nuclear option. My account may not have had much contributions, but it was an honest account of 5 years.

I heard gentoo is HOT! Which contributes to the acceleration of global warming… OMG, I need to use Arch again… nooooo. :( Guys, I’ve decided. It’s okay to have conflicting environmental and sysadmin ideologies at the same time.

I hear that. Gentoo also allows you to do local patches. Had to do that once for gdb (don’t ask) and was surprised how easy it was. Very cool system. Would recommend.

https://github.com/leeola/PowerDeleteSuite

Here you go. There are others, but I used this one.