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I think they mean in the sense that it's not a native desktop app (or mobile)

The call to action button is the free plan, with subscribe having a secondary button style. That alone makes it clear they want to show you ads more than they want you to subscribe.

Considering the reasons for shutting down, specifically that it took too many resources to keep out bad actors and keep the site as safe as possible, I don't think making it open source is a good idea.

I'm in TX with a whole bunch of constituents amendments on the ballot. Never too optimistic about making a difference in such a conservative state, and particularly annoyed the only thing that could have a positive effect on our failing electric grid is a tax incentive for natural gas 🤮.

The only prop I'm still on the fence about is the university fund. I'm skeptical of state funding for universities, because my understanding is quite a bit of that goes to admin instead of lowering tuition. But most organizations seem to support the proposition, and the only ones who oppose it say they do so because the universities are too "woke". I don't want to vote in alignment with some alt right organizations :/

If you go to very leftist areas of the internet (socialist or communist areas, anywhere from anarchistic (bottom left) to authoritarian (top left)) you'll see people using liberalism by its political science definition, rather than the definition its taken on within American culture. It stems from the idea of capital moving freely (that is, liberally) without restrictions. You'll also see it referred to as neoliberalism in the same spaces.

Full disclosure, I myself am pretty extremely socially libertarian (arguably borderline anarchistic), and have used liberal derogatively myself.

I'm also still interested in the xmpp vs matrix debate. I'm using matrix ATM because it seems more actively developed and used, but I know some people still swear by xmpp. Ultimately I really just want a decentralized alternative to discord, but beyond that I feel like I'll just want to go to whichever alternative has the most users, since that's pretty useful for chatting software.

I've heard feedback that matrix doesn't seem to be very united, with different groups implementing different competing features proposals etc., which does seem to be a pretty big issue.

I'm also pretty optimistic about a lot of the new stuff being built on matrix. I recently became aware of Commune, which is about making sections of matrix servers web searchable, and that sounds incredible - one of my biggest issues with discord is how often it gets used as effectively game wikis, collecting all these guides and information that's only accessible through a proprietary discord account. No anonymous search.

All contributions being from monthly contributions is a very interesting note. They are what will allow you to reliably make long term decisions. Glad to see the monthly donations are still covering the expenses, and the runway is getting longer over time.

The bit about "no" not meaning "no" means they're specifically implying meta employees can be sexually assaulted even if they say no. I'm sure it's said in jest, but it's still a fairly offensive comment.

I'm not ready to really degoogle my phone, but wow next DNS has a lot of cool features! Thanks for the recommendation

I haven't gotten into vrchat personally, but I love that it's become well known as a good safe place for people to explore their gender identities

I'm not sure I agree with the take that blahaj.zone has a facism problem. They're explicitly anti-tankie and anti-nazi, which are the authoritarian end of the political spectrum. It's a very left leaning space, and I think anyone in the lower left quadrant, e.g. libertarianism to anarchism and socialism to communism, would be well received.

I'm not sure why you would need accounts on all those different platforms. Isn't the whole point of posse that you just post it once and then anyone, regardless of platform, can see it? That's what already happens (with the caveat that some, like lemmy, won't show you certain types of posts, like notes).

And people following you on one platform but not another sounds like more of a desire for multiple identities, each one a fragment of your actual identity. That's another concept, that stuff like socialhub try to implement.