That’s exactly it. They don’t like it but they view any alternative, especially one forced on them, as worse. If you want to fix the problem, you unfortunately have to coddle the morons and let them voluntarily change when they find out it’s better.

City government is better than state government is better than federal government until they do something republicans don’t like than larger entities should stop them.

Correct. They are clear in that link as well that BlueSky themselves will not do anything to harvest and/or monetize data for AI. But there’s really no way to stop bad faith actors from crawling any perceivable content for malicious purposes.

Some of this is more just a generic overview of differences in perspective.

• It was inspired by this piece by someone who is now on the board that manages it. Yes they have a CEO, but there is a bigger board collaborating on direction decisions
• They have an explicit policy opposing sharing data for AI usage.
• It was initially the place for a bunch of frequently targeted minorities and the leadership implemented a bunch of changes that — in combination with a attitude of “block don’t engage” because many people aren’t rational actors — significantly make the space safer for users and less susceptible to dog piling and harassment.
• Moderation is handled far better that any other large social media platform in my experience.
• It was created as open source and as an open protocol from the start so in the event of a takeover, it’s relatively easy to spin off a clone (see protocols link).
• They allow more openness to 3rd party moderation tools in a more integrated manner.
• They have been open about discussing funding planning in the future and red lines that are unacceptable to them.
• There is no algorithm in your main feed. You see only what those you follow share. There is a discover feed, but if you hide that it has no impact on your future experience.

That would have been better in hindsight.

We as a society put too much shame on certain book choices. A reader is better than a non-reader* and what you enjoy is valid.

I’m glad you found something you enjoy!

*-for various definitions of reader, including audiobooks

Nah, one of my kids are vegetarian and I cook to support them. I have no issues with vegans. I see how it came across that way though.

I suspect you must have missed the .ml vegan community drama a couple months ago. Take every bad stereotype about vegans and ramp it to 11. Everything was in bad faith. It bled into a couple different communities.

Your comment has been removed for including carnist hate words. We don’t use words that glorify murder like the “b” word.

Pretty enjoyable and a quick read. It’s pretty standard LitRPG fare so far. The humor doesn’t seem forced like it can with some others.

Took me longer to finish Lud-in-the-Mist than I hoped. I don’t know that I enjoyed it, but I appreciate having read it.

On to Dungeon Crawler Carl and I’m about halfway through it already.

256% true. Do you think people would just go on the internet and tell lies like that?

Allow me to be the first to wish you a Happy Honda Days from my family to yours.

Until Trump’s DOJ decides to re-dismiss with prejudice.

The vast majority of email address domains aren’t chosen, they come from your ISP, Cell phone/computer OS manufacturer, or employer/school. That’s the opposite of the fedeverse account creation process.

But, but eMAil!!!1!!!

When life gives you oranges, don’t make orange juice. Make life take the oranges back! Get mad! You don’t want those damn oranges, what the hell are you supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Bougie_Birdie oranges! Do you know who you are? You’re the man who’s gonna burn a house down! With the oranges! You’re gonna get your engineers to invent a combustible orange that burns a house down!

Twitter, where the response to “I like Hot Dogs” is “Why do you hate Cheeseburgers???”

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Redshirts was where I started with Scalzi, one day I’ll get to Old Man’s War.

Lud is a one-off. I added it for bingo because a bunch of authors have listed it as a super formative book. I like her style, but it is a bit more dense than I expected going into it initially.

Pretty sure Jesus is a Lich since he was a sorcerer, not a Zombie; in the context of the question though that could be immaterial.