It seems they don’t care.

Then get that in writing.

Or with cooperatives. Cooperatives are a good alternative to corporations.

The entire point of the fediverse is to federate. Not federating by default kills discoverability and the potential for discoverability among other things

Oh, do cry me a river while you’re at it. Pretty much every community everywhere has a general or memes room, those are for the meme gifs (or wait, these are webp these days…).

So basically, people use Reddit to search on the internet now because it’s real people, not shitty SEO content.

Excuse me what? Since when since Jun 2024 does Reddit actually have real people?

This pretty much. At some point one has to accept that the people who want to be saved can be saved, and those who don’t, can’t. We shouldn’t (reasonably or not) waste ourselves for the latter in spite of the former.

If I’m talking with people about the topical thing which is why I joined a room in the first place, the last thing I want is a looping autoloops fruityloops annoyance. Plus, not autoplaying and autolooping them saves battery.

Excuse me, Jabber / XMPP is about as old as I am!

XMPP / Jabber is better.

Just sell the car to a derby demolition show. We all win.

I don’t.

Yeah, hot take, but basically there’s no point to me having to keep track of all that stuff and excessively worry about the dangers of modernity and sacrifice the spare time I have on watching update counter go brrrr of all things, when there’s entire peoples and agencies in charge of it.

I just run unattended-upgrades (on Debian), pin container image tags to only the major version number where available, run rebuild of containers twice a week, and go enjoy the data and media I built the containers and installed for software for.

Oh if only Proton could learn this power!

I don’t get how people get hung on choosing a server when people have been chosing a starter Pokémon since 1998 without any major issues. And you get just about the “same” amount of practical info.

Really, what tiktok does to a generation…

…backup servers? 👀