If it were to exist I somehow doubt it would come from a Mastodon fork.

I guess Bonfire tries to be something more fitting, but it seems too early to say whether they will be successful at that.

No! Misinformation! They are very very dangerous! If you see it, run away as fast as you can, in great panic!!

(they might have a heart attack if you don’t, they get really riled up)

I think the idea is to fuck with AI. Why not, it doesn’t really help much, it doesn’t do much harm either.

I had great experiences with Sennheiser (Momentum, ancient make. They looked cooler back in the day).

From Denmark there’s B&O, but while all other over-ear headphones seem to last forever the pair I had from B&O broke within a month. That was a few years ago, but I’m a bit hesitant to recommend them since.

Julenissen in Norway, so the yule gnome more or less. Not to be confused with låvenissen, who lives all year in the granary of the farm and is given porridge for Christmas. Some people, especially those living on farms, are visited by låvenissen instead of julenissen on the 24th.

Låvenissen is a trickster, and when things are missing around the farm it’s probably his fault. But unlike the people living under ground (de underjordiske) he’s not a scary fellow, and he deserves a little treat for Christmas like everyone else.

I guess this is where the insight that you should judge a society by how it treats its weakest comes from. That’s a problem with OP’s scenario, as you’d be thrown into a completely foreign context without access to the more family and community-based security nets that are essential in poorer parts of the world.

I have travelled to some not very wealthy regions to small communities that can only be accessed by a 4x4, horse, or motorcycle (or by foot, as I prefer), and seen severely handicapped people in such places live what at least appears from the outside to be highly dignified and decent lives as the community works together to take care of them. It’s not at all obvious that they would be happier in a western city. Once anyone needs professional medical care or expensive treatments it of course becomes more clear-cut, and if you’re an outsider (or just unlucky) you’re of course out of luck.

Taking away enforced regulations on housing, employment, and banking makes things easier for me, not harder

In the short run, maybe, but sawing off the branch one is sitting on is dangerous business. :)

Yeah, in general if you have a good starting point anywhare not affected by tyranny, war, or genocide you’ll be alright. Behind a veil of ignorance there’s a whole lot of developing countries I’d go to before I’d risk being poor in the United States.

I wonder what people in this thread think the third world is, and what they imagine living there is like.

It’s not like there’s a clear answer. I guess technically Sweden is a third world county, while North Korea and Slovenia are both second world. America is as first world as it gets, and it’s a fucking mess.

If I could choose my own third world country I’d be quite alright. If they sent me to the worst first world country they could find, well, Alabama.

I think designing good social media is largely about identifying and removing possible abuse vectors. So if think it’s relevant to point it out when I see potential for one. My comment was not really about myself, whatever the hell I do is not very important.

This should probably be clear in the UX - right now it looks like I can downvote and emoji you at the same time, even though that’s probably not the case behind the scenes. In a way that risks people accidentally upvoting and giving attention to bad content - I guess I’d personally (in a moment of weakness) throw the 🤡 at leninists or trumpists, voiced I wouldn’t want to amplify.

Also - I was confused about some emojis not working, and then I realized they were tabs and that only the buttons below are emojis. Guess it proves how no UX is idiot proof. Also thumbs up is not under the tab illustrated with a thumbs up, which is confusing. :)

I’ll try to resist myself, but I think expecting people to behave themselves is a pretty tall order for social media. :/

I feel like there’s a risk of abuse though - I could totally see myself replying to certain things with a 🤡 rather than engaging in a debate, and I’m not sure that’s healthy for online culture.

There are people whose concerns it is worth listening to. I’m sure they will show up eventually.

Happy holidays!

Yes, exactly; it’s a like with an "emoji": "string" attribute. It’s described in the post announcing the feature. :)

I really like giving with Liberapay! Puts me in full control, gives me a great overview over what I give to different causes, and never bothers me.

All my monthly or weekly donations are actually yearly or in some cases even biannual, in order to minimize transaction costs. But that’s of course a matter of preference.

Also adding :catjam: might be a good idea—it seems to be the ruling emoji of the fediverse.

Edit: I might have just missed it on account of the disco theme.

Congratulations to Putin for launching 635 drones and 38 missiles to kill some completely arbitrary 4-year-old and two random people in their 70s right before Christmas. He has brought the Russian empire to its absolute peak, no doubt.

Your personal opinion, or that of the person posting. That way if people see it differently it could also be a more interesting/relevant discussion. Doesn’t need to be a lot, and of course it’s not an exact science, but I think discussions on what is typical European in comics and how it is emulated could be really interesting.

As much as I appreciate the effort the DoJ made to spare us from seeing Trump’s ugly face, I wish they’d make a more holistic effort for the cause. Why not put him away for good.

In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen

This article was written with AI in mind, but it could might as well have been about blockchain. When it first arrived people were so amazed there had been a new software invention that they wanted to apply it to everything, desperately looking for problems for their brand new solution.

If it’s not obvious which problem blockchain solves in a given context, chances are it doesn’t solve any problems at all.

It’s a fun technological showcase though.