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BobQuasit

@ BobQuasit @kbin.social

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  • Why is Lemmy called Lemmy?

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  • ...so it's nothing to do with Lemmiwinks, then?

    I am disappointed.

  • Is this the beginning of the next tech bubble bursting?

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  • God, I hope so. I don't see any way to stop the billionaires from killing off our species, at this point. But I want to say least see those psychotic monsters suffer before we all go!

  • Reddit Exodus: How to Request your User Data (& Why You Might Want to)

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  • Same here. I'm kind of suspecting that Reddit isn't going to be giving me my data anytime soon, if ever!

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  • This might sound childish, but there's an old EP of lullabies that my parents used to play and sing for me long ago. Decades later, I got a copy to play and sing for my own son.

    It's called Golden Slumbers: Lullabies From Near and Far (1956). It's not available digitally and was never released on CD, so I ripped the EP and posted it to YouTube at the link above. It's really relaxing.

  • Why are conversations on Reddit often so hostile and toxic now days?

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  • Yeah, I'm another old school early adopter who was on the internet since the '80s. No way the enshittification and souring of Reddit was caused by boomers and Gen xers. Most of them wouldn't know how to get on, and those who would... Honestly, I'm the only boomer I know who is on there. Well, unless you go to some of the subreddits that are specifically for people over 50. And those people are incredibly nice! One of the few things I will really miss about Reddit.

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  • I'm off my primary account, and have no desire to go back. I did check on my alt today, but only to catch up on correspondence.

  • Why do people keep voting for authoritarian leaders?

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  • Because the system gives them no other real choice. When all major parties serve the interests of the oligarchs, the people know that they're being screwed. Which makes them angry. And since the powers that be absolutely will not allow the emergence of a truly populist movement or leader, the people have no other option but to support a charismatic authoritarian leader who promises them whatever they want. I suspect that most of the people know that those leaders are lying, but at least they acknowledge that the people are being screwed!

    Note that while the establishment never allows a leftist populist movement, they're fine with an authoritarian one. Translation: our owners won't allow their cattle to run free, but they're happy to have us all choose a leader to send us to the slaughterhouse for their profit.

  • Why lemmy.world should not defederate from beehaw.org.

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  • Chi1d p0rn posters, among others. According to them, and I have no reason to doubt them.

  • Beehaw* defederated us?

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  • Ironically enough I had just added several communities from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works to my feed on Beehaw. Luckily I can still see them on my "Subscribed" list - not the content, the community names - so I'm adding them to my kbin subscriptions instead.

    I'm glad to see that kbin has gotten stable. I'd been trying to use it for days, but it kept freezing and crashing!

  • What is the thing that has surprised you the most about the Fediverse?

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  • BookWyrm. I'd searched intensively for a replacement for GoodReads, and been stuck with LibraryThing despite it's extreme user-hostility (by which I mean the opposite of user-friendliness, not that the people there were hostile). BookWyrm was what I was looking for all along!