Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

When activists are "being reasonable" and "going through proper channels", they generally have already (correctly) predicted that it's not going to work anyway, and they are doing it *entirely* for the benefit of convincing the "reasonable people" who "don't want to jump the gun" and "hear out all sides" that they know what they're doing

And I wish that those "reasonable people" would sometimes think about what that implies about their role in the whole thing

And like, no harm done, we all had a good laugh, with the delivery guy remarking "... haven't I been here before with this exact same problem?"

It just baffles me how this even happens twice

Same company with the same truck as 6 months ago came to try and deliver wood to me today, that I hadn't ordered... instead it's for a house a block away, who have now *twice* ordered large amounts of wood to the wrong address

You would think that people would get their own street number right, and yet

The default train liveries of a few countries:

- Netherlands: blue/yellow, or blue/white with yellow accents
- Germany: red with white accents, or white with red accents
- Belgium: graffiti

I *really* hope that people will draw lessons from the current Reddit implosion, particularly those who are privileged enough to be able to build their own alternatives.

I'm so, so tired of this endless cycle of "people build marginalized communities on VC-funded platforms because there's no other viable options, then the mods burn out because of bad support from the platform, and eventually the platform hangs them out to dry and destroys the communities".

And this isn't to blame *only* on the VC-funded platforms themselves, either. I can think of quite a few well-off people who certainly have the means to build something better, but chose not to, because using Reddit or whatever was easier.

If you're a well-paid software developer who spends most of their time being excited about new tech, rather than spending it being concerned about their own safety or health, then I am talking about you. Yes, also if you're queer.

Solidarity also means putting in the work that you are able to, to help others who can't. Not just going "uwu I'm so queer" and pulling up the ladder behind you just because *you* are comfortable.

So what's people's read on kbin? I'm aware of the issues with Lemmy, but kbin seems uncomfortably close to a lot of cryptocurrency stuff, which is not really any better...

I have found a hidden mode on my kettle, somehow

Doing a loose, non-committal survey: if you're a software developer, would you be interested in collaborating on FOSS projects that are:
1. Uncompromisingly open-source (no "open-core" or "enterprise edition" nonsense)
2. Explicitly anti-fascist and anti-capitalist
3. Trying to solve some sort of unsolved/structural technical problem(s) in an unconventional way, even if it means going against 'common wisdom' and 'programming culture' on a lot of points?

I have a bunch of these projects and it's getting pretty lonely, so I'm trying to gauge whether it's worth putting out a call for collaborators. Most (but not all) of these are in JS.