NotTheOnlyGamer

I think it’s time to shut it down, hard. That’s the start of something that will not end well for human beings.

When the shoe fits, start wearing it. PRC is an authoritarian state led by a dictator and his cronies.

Sure, and 2023 will finally be the year of Linux Desktop.

As opposed to many of you, I look forward to Meta joining up with ActivityPub. I’ve learned to embrace Eternal September; and have come to understand the debt I owe to it. Companies win, yes. I haven’t used Google chat in years. I don’t bother keeping a copy of Gaim/Pidgin on my PC because I don’t want to bother talking with anyone in a Jabber chat (Yeah, yeah, it’s XMPP now, I started when it was Jabber and I was on the mothership server). Everyone I need to talk to moved from GChat to Skype, and then at some point, from Skype to Discord. They never stopped at Jabber, Mumble, or other OSS options; though some joined me in passing through. As I’ve said, human nature is opposed to load-balancing. People want to be part of the largest possible community, at least at first.

I would love to have an easy way to talk to local friends again, and have a wide base of information to share with them. If this new system is easier to coordinate local groups with than Meetup is, I’ll be joining and becoming a fairly active user. I might keep my Lemmy accounts, my Mastodon account, and my KBin account - just like I’m keeping my Reddit account now.

If servers want to defederate from Facebook, that’s their loss.