pmk

joined 1 year ago
[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 day ago

Plenty of people are ok with ads and such, and that's fine. People who don't want that may need to pay for the infrastructure of having an alternative platform. It all comes down to what you value more, and there's no inherently right or wrong answer.

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If the money is freely given as a donation, then I'm with you. If lack of money is what is stopping someone from making things that others are willing to pay to see more of, then sure. But if the only way to do it is to have ads or selling our data etc, then I don't want that.

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 3 days ago (6 children)

I'd rather have one unix surrealism than a thousand influencers with lots of followers. These days, I want to be among people who interact as equals, who share ideas, who cooperate in a genuine way. If we try a shortcut to more users through money, what is the point?

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 6 days ago
[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

What are the details of this minerals deal? Is it just a way to put americans in Ukraine, or is it a way to basically steal Ukraines minerals?

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 month ago

I agree, on both levels.

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Isn't that kind of what colonies are for? Extracting money from land you took from the people who lived there before?

 

I'm trying to understand the way Mastodon works. Back in the day I started with IRC and then the many php-based forums and then reddit which led to lemmy. I never used twitter or similar platforms.
My understanding (and this is where I need help) is that all of the above are topic-based, whereas Mastodon is person-based? What I mean is that on lemmy I subscribe to things based on topic and I don't really care about usernames or user profiles, I only care about discussing a topic. It seems to me like Mastodon is the opposite? You follow persons and what they might say about any topic?
Is there something I'm missing here? Are hashtags close enough to sorting it by topic that it works just like a topic based platform? Is this difference inherent or just in my head because I don't understand Mastodon?

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

After reading this I was at the local grocery store and counted 17 different kinds of bearnaise they sell. Sweden loves bearnaise.