I’m sorry, are you talking about pawb.social? That’s the Lemmy instance I’m on and I’ve never heard anything particularly bad so please show me what I’m missing. Of it’s my Mastodon, I’m on bark.lgbt over there, which has no bad history from what I know.

Tried that too. Its not federated and generally just didn’t like me lol

Sorry, I don’t knowingly support crypto bros or war profiteers if I can help it. Plus if in looking for an alternative to a bad service, I’m not gonna give cadence to the platform already doing shitty stuff, just for it all to crash again once that one gains traction.

I’ve heard Matrix was involved in some crypto bullshit and military operations of some sort. I want an alternative but Matrix is just shady enough all around for me to stay the hell away.

The only commercial social media I use anymore (or at least post on) is Bluesky, and I’m getting weary of that, too. I’ve switched completely to open source operating systems and workflows in the past year or so. During that time I’ve also become vegan and am trying not to go to any sort of shop at night. That last one has nothing to do with the state of things at this very moment, but I don’t want to give companies more reason to force people onto late shifts when working in retail/customer service already sucks and even full time won’t get you close to a living. The last thing anyone needs is their sleep thrown off, as I know from struggling with it myself. I may not be able to stop buying things, but fuck working when you should be sleeping. Unless you’re literally an essential worker, in which case those shit shifts should be cycled between people, not consistent.

…I didn’t mean for that to become a rant lmao

Plus with entertainment stuff they’re usually finished once released (or at least they SHOULD be cough cough game industry). It would be better if every game was open source, especially since there are tons of old games that could do with revamps but are too niche to invest in. If we had the source though, die hard fans would be all over that shit and wouldn’t have to spend years decompiling and romhacking! But that said, creative tools need to he constantly updated and should be open source always in case something goes bad. My ROM of Spyro for the PS1 isn’t changing anytime soon, so while it would be better for the source to be out there, I’m not worried about it suddenly becoming unusable.

That my strategy when I have to buy one of those dumb TVs. Just leave it ignorant of the internet

Weird considering I need my desktop to just be a tool as well, and Mint really does that for me. Just my experience tho.

Therapy is supposed to be, if nothing else, a relief. Yes, its important to have hard conversations and take away the right lessons to work on yourself, but how in any way is therapy a chore? Man, I wish therapy was so unnecessary in my case that being forced to take it felt like a slog to get through.

But that assumes that the right and left are both searching for truth and a path to a better future. Any flavour of leftist can be wrong about something, but at least leftism attempts to help society at the end of the day. A conservative is only ever out for themself (and would likely get pissed with me for using “them” in the singular lol).

If it could be vegan cheese, then I’d go for that. I think its good on toast and pizza is great, of course. I say I hardly like it because everyone else seems to die for it in all forms. Meanwhile I rarely go out of my way to have it unless its an integral part of something, like pizza.

I hardly like cheese AND I’m asexual so this question hardly applies to me lol

In comparison to Trump, me too, but that does not contradict what I said.

Trump being horrendous in every way doesn’t erase Biden, Obama and the like being bad leaders who preserve the status quo.

How far do you wish to kick the nearest small animal like a football?

I’m tempted to share one of my own songs lmao

That is true, but I think they were just trying to take a shot (haha) at the US. Well deserved, for sure.