What I always think when people ask me that: “Do you actually want to know the truth, do you actually care? Or are you just wasting air asking meaningless questions?”

But usually respond with a “I’m fine, thanks. What about you?” as protocol requires 🤠😀🙃🫠

good ragebait 👌

But did they stop selling in the USA after e.g. the invasion of Grenada and Iraq and civilian bombing of Yugoslavia?

And obvious question is whether they still do business with the Zionazis…

Thing is I don’t really have the capacity to moderate (any more) coms, much less regularly post in them

Thank you for your service, subbed to all of them!

Only missing daystrom and shittydaystrom LOL

It’s good to divest away from .world, maybe I’ll even get to posting ST now ~w~

AFAIK the Young Pioneer were spearheaded by Scouts who didn’t side with the proto-fascists (AKA whites) during the civil war and joined the communist movement

Most likely inspired by the Young Pioneers of the USSR, which existed since 1922

It was normal for my parents though by the time they left school nobody took the Komsomol seriously anymore.

Also at least in the USSR, being a Young Pioneer was mostly about alliegance to peace, solidarity, and friendship between the peoples of this world.
The unspeakable horrors of educating children to love not only their neighbours but all peoples regardless of ethnicity, to fight for peace, and to help their community and those in need. 😱😱😱

Interesting video about Soviet cartoons with a segment on the pioneers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgA6EGMuGCM

I never really understood private trackers TBH or rather the reason behind them. I like the idea of publicly sharing more anyway

I used to use Deluge as well but have been really happy with Transmission for years now

If you had to experience excruciating levels of gender dysphoria, hate and animosity – often coming from your own family –, maybe you would think differently…

It’s not just verbal either, there is a real chance of non-passing trans people getting followed or even beaten up, especially in the evenings/nights. And yes, in the “civilised” west.

Matrix.org is VC funded (which is why it will go freemium soon AFAIK) and not 99% is on Matrix.org as you mentioned

I can freely and easily federate with any other homeserver to matrix.org

There is a difference between providing services to fund development and “We take VC capital now and try to make it profitable later”, which just invites enshittification.

Also Matrix is much better federated than BS + everything is open and was so for a long time

That is exactly what I meant, just because other people are doing it too, it doesn’t stop you from reading the sidebar

I think the sidebar clarifies it pretty well

If you don’t want to hear any criticism, stop bringing up pseudo-decentralized corpo VC-backed Twitter 2.0

:3

Maybe immortals are just lobsters without a shell ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Glowies /j

It’s just that naturally on a libre Fediverse platform, people are gonna have higher tech literacy than the average populus.

Valid of course, but they do not make up the majority unfortunately…