Net_Runner :~$

Just like when mastodon.social condemned Meta for their horrible moderation decisions and inability to act properly in the interest of its users, and said that the instance would be cutting ties/not federating with Threads, they kept on federating like nothing happened.

I don’t believe anything coming out of mastodon.social unless I can see action being taken with my own two eyes.

Also, blocking scrapers is very easy, and it has nothing to do with a robots.txt (which they ignore).

I’m really glad this two wolves joke from the federated timeline 7 years ago is still raging on for some reason

Despite the fact that this article explains the same thing like 5 times in a row as if I’m an idiot … uh, damn, Meta. Let me make sure I don’t have your apps on my phone.

The concept of an emulator isn’t even that old. Like, literally all throughout the 2000s and 2010s. How did this generation grow up so oblivious to everything? “What’s an emulator?” “How do you use a computer?”

Bro, are we talking about 80 year olds or 20 year olds

“Good grief,” what are you 60 years old?? Come back when you have an actual point to make, nutsack.

Bro, this whole entire thread is about pointing out all the flaws in JK’s writing, and how her bigotries have always been embedded in her stories, outside of the fact that she’s incredibly transphobic, and currently funding a hate campaign, and you’re calling not consuming this specific media an “unattainable moral standing.”

No, I don’t think I need to work on reading comprehension. I think sea lions and goal poster movers need to get banned and removed from the fediverse completely, like the parasite that you are.

Holy shit, did you just say it’s unattainable to stop watching fucking Hairy Pothead? lol

Doing jumping jacks to continue consuming a children’s wizard story from a billionaire who’s paying to insight a genocide is really not something an adult with an adult brain should be doing, but you do you

The goblins are Jewish caricatures first and foremost, and most obviously. I thought we as a society knew that most portrayals of goblins have always been antisemitic, but that’s aside from every other character in HP being some kind of stereotype metaphor. There’s a reason that became a meme, and is still a meme. i.e., stuff like, “JK has announced that her newest character, John Gayman, is a gay man!” for a rough example.

I don’t particularly agree with every single thing listed here, but these are some more examples to mull over: https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughJKRowling/comments/kaxw28/i_made_a_list_of_examples_of_racism_prejudice_and/

It is hard to understand, actually. I don’t understand how you consume something that’s been over for 20 years, that was intended for children, and contains veiled racism and fascist undertones that go right over the head of average people, and still sit here in 2025 going, “I regularly pop Hairy Plopper into my Dee Vee Dee player” like

I guess it doesn’t matter, though, because now the next time you plop that thing in you’re going to think of these posts.

I was about to comment that #2 either has as raging boner or it’s just like that

That it doesn’t disgust you to consume the media of an open fascist using her money to attempt a genocide is highly suspect

I hate to break it to the people 10 years ago, but Musk has always been a horrible person

He tweeted, with a ghibli-slop avatar

Haha sorry, would have responded earlier but am stuck at work

I actually just launched a PHPBB forum for specific interests in regards to the indie web, building websites, and sharing random banter (among a few other things). I find Reddit and Lemmy to be useful for seeing what’s going on in the world overall, and Discord has mostly just been annoying ever since its launch, and forums seem like a good answer to recreating actual communities. And if there are more people who feel this way, maybe they’ll make a comeback (because they definitely haven’t just started to be affected by corporations attempting to centralize everyone to one thing).

And that’s the kicker. Bluesky can never be meaningfully decentralized.

I mean, they’re going to have to. There’s no other choice at this point

For whatever reason, Reddit’s algorithm decided I should start seeing that community, and I’ve always struggled to figure out if it’s just Linux users shitposting, or if there are people out there who really just have huge boners for Microsoft