Snot Flickerman

It’s capitalism coupled with access to education.

You get more anxious when you’re super educated about how badly you’re getting fucked by capitalism and have zero power to change it!

You cry because your adherence to puritanical-rooted-values makes you believe “a dirty slut” is a bad thing.

I smile because I know being a dirty slut isn’t a bad thing.

We are not the same.

Ewwww, McDonald’s tho.

If you’re not on a list of people to harass, terrorize, abuse, or possibly deport in the Trump administration, make sure you are are on one of those by signing this public petition! /s

I’m actually joking, because letting that kind of fear stop us is how they’ve won so far and how they’ll win in the future, unless we stop being afraid of the consequences of living in a corrupt USA and speaking truth to power.

Just ask Fred Hampton.

I’m sure continuing to make demands while not doing anything yourself will work out just swimmingly.

How will it handle the surge?

By enshittifying to make those venture capital bucks back.

Well yeah, let’s get the Mastodon devs a cool $15 million so they can hire more devs and compete. /s

You fail to understand open source. You want it better? Get fucking involved and stop asking people who are coding for free to compete with the code of an organization that has millions in dollars backing them and a team of professional developers.

Either get involved or start dumping money into the Mastodon devs patreon accounts.

Whichever you do is way more constructive than bitching about an open source program made by volunteers and comparing it to a slick corporate product with literally millions backing it and it’s development. That’s just sucking corporate dick by any other name.

Further, pretty sure block lists were and are available on Mastodon.

No wonder Trump won, everyone wants to suck at the teat of the rich instead of saying “we don’t need you.”

https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-24-2024-series-a

We’re excited to announce that we’ve raised a $15 million Series A financing led by Blockchain Capital

In other words, the enshittification is coming. Because Bluesky is backed by crypto-bro venture capital.

A lot of hay is being made about Bluesky but despite literal oligarchs taking over the country, I guess rich people dictating how our systems work is what people want because apparently Mastodon is too much to ask of individuals.

We can talk about Bluesky and how great their tech is all we want, but unless we address the elephant in the room, venture capital that wants a return on their investment, we’re just spiraling the same stupid fucking drain we’ve been down with every social media preceding it.

It’s also why repair costs an arm and a leg.

It used to be a bumper was just filled with foam, so getting in a fender bender was a pretty cheap fix.

Now a bumper has upwards of $5000 in technology and sensors sitting in it, and a fender bender can often make the car considered “totaled” because the cost to repair is now more than the total resale value of the car.

Get a bike, ride a bus, fuck surveillance capitalism.

Do one better: Get control of their internet network access and start straight DNS black-holing whole swaths of misinformation on the internet. Tell them you don’t know what’s wrong and to complain to the service provider.

You can do this easily with a Pi-Hole under the guise of it being an “ad blocker,” and slowly, over time, making more sites unresponsive.

Make a Pi-Hole group for your own devices that doesn’t have this blocking, so when they question you, you can show them your device and be like “it works for me.”

It’s kind of the modern equivalent of using parental controls to block FOX News.

For legal reasons, this is also a joke, because “now that’s what I call gaslighting.”

Devs:

I have altered the code. Pray I do not alter it any further.