I used to like the band Tool, but I don’t like people who like Tool so much that I stopped listening to Tool regularly.

At this point I am just waiting fot the Treasury to inevitably get RansomWare’d.

Whats the best way to take action for me as a single user?

That’s a tough question, because a lot of us explicitly don’t want this to become reddit, or as large as reddit (I am of this opinion myself). If you’re looking for things like a community for the city you live in, I think that’s far better served by creating a regional instance. Midwest.social is a good example of that, as is yall.theatl.social, an Atlanta-focused instance.

What kind of posts should I focus on making?

Whatever you want to make, the world (and the fediverse) is your oyster.

Ive heard of fetching reddit posts, maybe I could do that if theres like an easy process to do so, I’d happily feed some communities I like with posts from the silicon valley mafia platform to this platform!

Once again, a lot of us would prefer to not have that but have original content and discussions. Others may feel differently, however this is certainly my own opinion.

Also whats the name of this platform?

Lemmy. (At least for feddit.org, specifically)

I registered under feddit org, is the umbrella term called fediverse?

Yes, it is called the fediverse.

Accroding to wiki then this(fediverse) should be linked to platforms like pixelfed and mastadon too, is it?

Technically, yes, they all run on an underlying architecture called ActivityPub. Lemmy and Mastadon can see each other, but most people don’t browse between them that way because of how differently they work. Lemmy posts look weird on Mastodon and vice versa. Mastodon doesn’t have the same kind of threaded conversations, it’s conversation trees are like Twitters. I, for example, have a different Mastodon (Sharkey) account and Lemmy account because it’s easier for me to have them be separate entities even though they can technically connect. Many Lemmy instances host similar Mastodon instances, like my instance lemmy.blahaj.zone has a Mastodon instance at blahaj.zone. The aforementioned yall.theatl.social has a Mastodon instance at theatl.social.

How do I see content from them or in what way are these platforms interlinked with this reddit styled one?

That one I can’t answer because I haven’t tried it myself.

But here’s a link I did a quick search for that seems to have instructions on how you can. I haven’t tried it myself so your mileage may vary.

https://vijayprema.com/using-lemmy-from-my-existing-mastodon/

Lots of people, they just don’t get a lot of people reading about them. Most of the really serious ones are pretty wonky documents that most people wouldn’t want to sort through.

One idea I’ve personally had for years was taking away the voting rights of Representatives and Senators and making them glorified figureheads who write laws. Once they write a law (with Version Control being applied so we know who wrote what sentence) it’s instantly posted online in Wiki format where citizens (with proof of citizenship) can contribute in editing and work-shopping the new laws, and then when the new laws are ready, they are put up to a direct vote by the citizens. This would remove the representatives ability to be influenced in how they write the laws since citizens would have more direct control via editing the law and voting on it. I’m not as thoughtful as the more wonky people who have written a lot more serious stuff like this.

Outside an existing system, I think there’s lots of interesting writing on decentralized societies where diffuse power structures can lead to less consolidation of power by individuals seeking individual control. Anarchy lite, I guess you could call it?

I guess you can’t infer that other people have their own opinions. The whole thing that started this was me having the opinion that you can’t trust corporations to not change in the future.

You don’t have to say certain things for me to be willing to make statements of my own opinion. That’s how a conversation works but I guess you must not have a lot of those in real life.

Having an opinion and stating it isn’t making a strawman.

At this point I’m just having fun pissing you off.

The original Bubsy is up there, too.

What could possibly go wrong?

I don’t think I’ve ever busted as much ass to beat a game as a child as I did with Bubsy. Maaaaybe getting the “Happy End” in Bubble Bobble, but of course that’s a friendship effort. Thanks, Scott, for helping me achieve that all those years ago.

Other people having their own opinions isn’t putting words in your mouth.

I’m definitely not the one being a tryhard here.

Also, Linux ain’t safe from corporate influence when Linus dies, either.

Gumball’s mom?

I’m not the one defending a corporation that literally hid behind their CEOs coming out story to avoid bad press about their tax dodging… Tax dodging which helped them get their obscene warchest today. Apple isn’t your friend and doesn’t care that you exist, dude.

Cry more and go suck some more corporate dick while you’re at it.

Thanks for the response and good suggestions.

When I looked at the profile, it didn’t say it was already banned, and I looked moments after I got it, but maybe it’s banned in the seconds between that check and when I submitted the report.

To quote you:

I said they would not inject ads like this

And I’m saying you don’t know that they won’t do that in the future. But keep clarifying yourself more, I’m sure it will help clear it up.

That’s not how they operate.

That’s literally the implication that I’m talking about that you say I’m projecting onto this. You don’t know the future, that can change.

No, you implied that they’ll never ever ever never ever in a million years turn to their ad business to supplant lost sales elsewhere and that related things couldn’t happen to impact their sales. Which is a bogus and easily disproven line of thought.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1330127/apple-ad-revenue-worldwide/

They still have an ad business, and ads are what companies turn to when times get tough. There’s no guarantees that Apple will stay on top for other reasons, and to assume such a thing will never happen is truly foolhardy.

It’s like believing Valve will be the same after Gabe Newell dies.

Further, Apple relies deeply on TMSC and since the US is basically in a nosedive of idiocy and protectionist tariffs, there’s a significant chance their supply line for their chips could be deeply impacted, and by extension, their profits from their computing products. Whether from tariffs or China taking over Taiwan, Apple could easily get fucked out of luck fast.

If you think another private company with profit on their mind is safe, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.

If your username isn’t sincere, it’s trolling to begin with when you know this site leans left, and you’re getting exactly what you signed up for using that name.

If your username is sincere, well…

The quote was from Ayn Rand herself for what it’s worth.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

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