Is there a way to donate to the authors? Because I think pirating and then donating the money (directly) to the author is much more ethical than putting a megacorp or a publisher in between

Even better if you send it with something like Monero which doesn’t even put the bank between you and the author

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No one except this guy will be able to read this. Die out of curiosity muhahahaha

I love how people put E=mc^2 everywhere

Like, why does Susan need that for a roating table? Unless the table is running on plutonium of course

you can write like 5 of them and rest will be auutomatically done I think

I don’t think TikTok community is compatible with the idea of fediverse

TikTok exists to give you large floods of endorphins via either an algorithm trained to your interests or by giving you big numbers. And this is not exclusive to TikTok, this is just how modern “social” media works, it’s the sole reason why bluesky succeeded more than mastodon

Modern social media is mostly a hive mind of people affirming each other driven by algorithms. Fediverse on the other hand, always boils down to a old fashioned usenet style network made just so people can talk with each other. You can’t really get addicted to fedi

I wasn’t really alive during the wild west internet (im 19). I got into the net during the transition from forums to modern social media and reddit was my first social. I tried getting into facebook and instagram because everyone else was there but I just didn’t like it much.

I don’t know why but “the algorithm” is really boring for me. I only tried algorithm driven feeds on reddit (after u/spez) and on tumblr but the recommendations were always extremely “fake”. Other sorting methods like “new” or “by most active” just feel more like as if there was someone on the other side of the keyboard

it’s a parody of this poster from early 2000s

yup I did

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Yeah, I installed KDE because it functions similarly to Windows. But something like Budgie would be ok too I guess

Also, I think young people like theming. My brother uses KDE’s theme store a lot

Tbh he’s got a point

I absolutely lost it the first time he called me a nerd for using Arch and straight up started doing Fedora elitism lmao