Deref

You can't be both a small community and replace for profit social networks. I thought the point of all this was the second one.

This type of reporting is super counterproductive imo. When people read "the planet's fucked, no way to fix it now" a lot of them either give up and stop caring or become violent extremists. The right way is cautious optimism and busting myths - "here's why public transport doesn't suck" or "we need to build more solar panels" or "nuclear plants aren't dangerous".

Do you think Ernest should run and develop this whole site out of his personal income?

Just let people build more housing. In most American cities it's either totally impossible or so expensive only millionaires and big real estate companies can afford it. There's no reason for a permitting process that takes 5 years or for single family zoning, other than homeowners self interest and racism.

Maybe don't call them shitlibs?

There's no way to enforce that. Bots can change IP address and not all instances have a dmca page.

Bluesky is working on a fix. They have a global identity system where you can move all your data (posts, likes, followers, blocks) to another instance if you get banned. The only thing that changes is your handle.

Don't do that. Deleting your account is enough and some of your comments might be useful info that doesn't exist anywhere else.

With Proton most games run with no issues and just as fast as on Windows. Those that don't are because of anticheat, weird launchers or invasive DRM. I still have a Windows partition for those games and Windows only tools but haven't used it in months.

Feedbro is great. Not open source but you can export everything so it's no big deal.

I made a version that makes the instance name normal weight instead of bold. Think it looks better that way.

Valve has a pretty unique flat structure that could protect them from a corporate buyout, even more if Gaben decides to transfer ownership into an employee trust and turn it into a full co-op when he leaves.