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So most of them are just living because of reckless abandonment!

Having used Mastodon for a few years, I would say that it doesn’t work like that. There’s no reason to expect interaction unless you bring an IRL group, or stick close with a popular niche topic. Most people I interact with have an agenda, and don’t need me for anything other than boosting their posts. Some are intensely hostile to anything other than standalone posts. Anyone replying across the platform is labelled a ‘reply guy’ and basically dissed and shunned. “Ultimate cancelling”, I think.

Most of Mastodon doesn’t want to support the rest of Mastodon AFAIK. There isn’t a broad society with popular encouragement as you had with early Instagram, Twitter, and Reddit.

At the outset of popularity for the platform, a lot of long term users were very upset about popularity. To the day, those users are trying to discourage other people. If you post, they might even counter-post as cleverly as possible to attach disdain to anyone interacting with you.

Don’t take any of it personally. It’s not about you. Luckily you’re not special in this regard. Post there if you want to, but never expect something beyond passing jerks.

This is basic coordinate usage. Negative latitudes are South. And 180 or -180 is half a planet away from the prime meridien. West of England are negative longitudes.

Give a contextual answer, and let them keep their paranoia beyond that. Not your monkeys, and definitely not your circus.

Mostly, I don’t shop. So, when I do, I can choose according to ideals. Most of my searches are at thrift first, and the second hand. I never consider credit. And, I always shop for discounts.

Beyond that I look for a local with a healthy business and prices that don’t seem absurd.

There are a few local businesses that make no sense. I don’t understand how they can keep their doors open with the prices they charge. I avoid those, and stick with locals who work hard.

Aah Aah CHARLIEKIRK!!!

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It only takes a few highly motivated individuals to start posting open ended conversations with great headlines to get everyone fired up again. I wouldn’t despair over it.

Blackout curtains on the sunny side reduce a lot of daytime heat.

“Change always comes too late” (Star Trek - Picard iirc)

You need to account for digestion. Put your best efforts in, and provide the right situation for growth. Wait the appropriate amount of time, and then some.

Think, grandparents say profound shit that doesn’t germinate with every grandchild until they’re long gone and then some. Not everyone is a timely learner.

The way that Google and Apple approaches programming is a little obtuse and it never gets out of the way.

Without someone like Linus Torvalds rewriting a whole new approach to mobile phones we’re all stuck with the majority offerings from lock-in corporations.

Then there’s telcos and manufacturers who never get out of the way either. So, even if we run to changemakers like FDroid the desired compatibility is still limited by a cacophony of weird restrictions and unknown difficulties.

With mobile phones we need to start manufacturing with Open Source to get the compatible-mobiles industry up to standards first. It’s not something that’s happening because those guys are far too retired to come back to a new front for machine compatibles - it’s 80s stuff.

Also, a non-java scheme would be a better way to go. Java development is all about using giant washing machines to spin out compilations from esoteric versions of fragile code. Having code that didn’t break every year would be great too.

Having moved like 50 times, and lost a few households of things I want back I endorse this message.

Don’t do decluttering because it’s a fad if you’re not the type of person it suits. I work with hundreds of tools and it turns out they are essential in the course of my regular projects. Decluttering is always an experience in stupidity for me.

That said, I don’t tend to buy useless crap because I hate retail environments both online and offline. Scrap is my go to because material costs tend to exceed my budget.

Don’t hate your scrap resources for no good reason! Hate it because it’s low quality or something. Most things I clear are due to it being someone else’s wheelhouse or requiring funds I don’t normally have (at which point plans would change). Time in motion and other studies!