Sounds like a pretty good feature request XD by no means do I want to see lemmy be an exact copy of reddit, but you can follow people over there, and it seems a usefull thing to do.

My problem with masto is that it’s a pretty decent twitter replacement that I found while looking for a facebook replacement. I figured out two things real quick: I really didn’t want use anything similar to facebook after all, and while masto came a bit closer to what I’d wanted, in the five or six years I’ve used it since, I’ve become a master of cooking my thoughts down to 500 characters.

I don’t feel like it was a productive challenge; more often than not I came away feeling semi-muted.

I’ll call it the twitter limitation, because I know masto kind of inherited it.

I just found it limiting. Go figure :)

THAT SAID, the masto devs make really good software, without qualification.

This Is The Way.

Wots the scoop, Chef?

Hmmmm, whatever floats your boat. I find it highly constraining, but I do like to go on. No doubt the result of a couple years of instruction in collegiate level English composition.

Also, it’s more a platform limitation (masto tries to go head to head with twitter) than anything,

In any case, the source of my actual butthurt with mastodon today is this thing they’re doing with the android beta. Where you have to be subscribed to their patreon to get it. Honestly, I dgaf about getting the android client; I hate my phone and it’s because of the handcuffed, bastardized linux it runs. However I am deeply committed to FOSS, having developed, tested and in fact made a living with it for decades. My beef isn’t that I think everything is supposed to be free, it’s that I think anything advertised as FOSS damn well better be free or they can anticipate hearing from those pf us who take Free and Open damned seriously. There are a million ways they can directly support themselves in developing mastodon without practically taking a segment of their user base hostage for the FOSS code.

That Is Not The Way.

just…NO.

The concern is retaliation for the crap perpetrated by the software authors who nuked disks based on the IP address appearing to be Russ. That misguided and unethical attempt at armchair warfighting cost far more to the people fighting the Russ than it did the Russ themselves.

It’s a fucking war , people. It involves us all, like it or not, because that is how the aggressor has played it.

You can tell when you’re in a fight when a thug is punching you in the face. That you don’t choose to respond in your defense doesn’t mean you’re not involved. It just means you’re an idiot taking an ass kicking.

Idk, but all the cool kids that started doing it are old

Really though, if you want to mark a proper line between them, Linux is the kernel+a certain few libraries, and nothing more.

At one time, almost everything else was GNU. A lot of code has been written since then by folks who neither recognize nor see a need for the distinction.

All that’s left at this point is politics.

My suggestion is 1. Stop being so fruitlessly pedantic and 2. Don’t worry about it. The statute of limitations has run out ;)

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Is anyone running this yet?

This must be some sort of hang-fired attempt at advertising your ‘protection’ racket.

/me invokes inner Scotsman hahah