I think you’re selling freedom short, yeah convenience and momentum are hard to beat but Lemmy is where the open source Devs are and the first adopters, I think we’re gonna go see a lot of interesting things emerge here which will draw a lot of users into trying it out - especially if all the other social media sites are closing their doors to people without accounts from viewing information.

What Lemmy needs is it’s own version of place, not the same thing but things that are fun and novel and community building. The basic stuff is still getting finalized but as things get established we’ll see plenty of tools made to help moderation, to enable new features and useful ways of interacting with information. Hopefully some fun games and toys too.

I’ve got a lot of work to do on my main project at the moment but I’ve also got a lot of ideas for Lemmy stuff I want to play with when I’ve got the time, I’m sure theres a lot of other people cooking up ideas and watching things develop and stabilize waiting for the right time.

Ah yeah that makes a lot of sense 🗜️

But power being spread among the people doesn’t mean there’s no rules or organisation, just because you work in a communist run flour mill doesn’t mean you can piss in the flour.

So we get into structure issues, we can all vote on if pissing in the flour should be allowed and what the punishment should be for doing it - this is the difference between communism and anarchy, literally living without a ruler Vs living in commune under shared values.

We dont all want to spend all day voting on what we can piss on so we could theoretically vote for a representative we like to do that for us - if all the local villages did that the representatives could all get together and debate and vote somewhere but to stop everyone talking over each other you’d want a secretary so they could vote for one and if the secretaries all got together for a regional or national meeting they would want a secretary too…

It would be natural to expect these people to act in the best interest of the people without ruining and asking everyone to vote on every little thing but of course they’re not going to be acting in the best interests of the flour pissers - from the flour pissers perspective if the top secretary passes a bill to say no flour pissing then they’re a big bad authoritarian.

(And don’t confuse dictator with authoritarian, they’re not synonyms)

I mean literally literally means literally not ‘kinda a bit if you look with a squint and ignore the rest’

I get the urge to make your point but imagine you see someone talking about baking and they say ‘sugar is just dry salt’ you’re not going to listen to anything they say

I really have no idea what people are trying to say or getting at in a lot of these comments, it feels like one of those art experiments where words don’t have meaning but are used to express emotion

Oh nice yeah if I need it again I will, thanks

I rarely use my windows laptop for anything but a few core tasks, I swear every time I went to do anything I need to make a new account for something -i needed to log into my laptop’s inbuilt system dash then I needed to make an Nvidia account to upgrade my graphics card drivers just to play baldurs gate - which has it’s own pointless launcher which wanted me to sign up…

One day they’re going to give all the data to an AI and it’s going to say ‘why the fuck do you make people sign up for so much bullshit? None of this data is even slightly useful’ then it’ll launch all the nukes

They probably could have used a Pico, certainly a zero instead of a 4

They also bent over backwards to help industrial buyers get them while flat out refusing to help content creators and Devs of open source projects that use the pi - it was really disappointing tbh

Still love them though but not as much as I used to.