this is the way

xubuntu. stable and apps are reasonably up to date. i’ll probably switch to mint with the whole snaps thing though. fedora is the one distro i never tried in my distro hopping phase though so…

one that might play better in northern england for me - an ironic “let’s 'av it”. not the full on “LET’S 'AV ITTTTTTTTTTT woo” just a dead pan 'right, let’s ‘av it, eh?’

yeah that one annoyed me especially as the only reason netflix ever made money was because they won the war of convenience against torrent sites.

my expectations weren’t very high, given how the twitter exodus played out, seeing some of the people who made very bold statements about never coming back… coming back… and subscribing to twitter blue.

you’re never going to take down a giant like reddit, or twitter, or facebook, or whatever, in one swift blow. they’re probably going to get through this. and your average social media user doesn’t want to bring down the status quo, they just want to look at funny pictures of dogs. and that’s fine. the real victory to be had is showing people that things can be done differently. enough people will stay on fedi servers to keep a community going, and by the time the next bunch of disgruntled posters come along there will be more content to keep them engaged

just the standard xfce one

i vote sub lemmies, because i too keep catching myself say subreddits spits

don’t tell anybody but i’m still doing tweets on mastodon.

glad to help. i’ve had all the same worries myself. it’s different, and far from perfect, but the average user is more empowered in where exactly that line is drawn.

the torrent analogy is pretty good actually, ISPs can block certain connections so a good chunk of users miss out on the swarm, and the swarm misses out on them. where federation differs from choosing an ISP is it’s far easier to switch your provider to this service than it is an ISP.

and where a given instance draws the line on censorship isn’t the be all and end all of whether other instances federate with them. as i see it, though my understanding of this comes from mastodon, even if one server decides to properly block another, a third server might chose to limit instead, if at all. there are block lists but that requires a very obvious and widely shared red line on freedom of expression, where there are very few places on the open web where you’ll see less censorship than that.

in the end, wherever a given instance draws the line, is far more democratic than other social media sites. it’s easier to think that twitter, or reddit, or facebook, is more accountable, because there’s at least one guy everybody can point to to blame when something goes wrong, and sure, there’d be something in that, if the scrutiny they get actually changed anything.

xubuntu. when this install gets too messy i’m probably going to try the minimal edition and install my old openbox or awesome wm configs.

neovim is here but i’m still waiting on the expanse!

that’s pretty much most of my personality covered.