Schwim Dandy

No, because you’re not valuable enough to the billionaires running the country to stay out of prison.

We’ve always excelled at terrorism.

No one should take you seriously. Log off.

Shocker that you actually handle online discussion with the desire to simply remove the people that you don’t agree with.

Much like a Nazi.

It seems that every social influencer Nazi has his bootlickers, I guess.

I love to get the important self-hosting and ad-blocking info from my favorite anti-semite.

It depends on your communities. There are plenty of proudly toxic people on the fediverse.

Now that the corpos and billionaires know that they can be openly and brazenly corrupt and greatly accelerate their schemes, we will never see a return to the politics of old where hiding it minimized profit regardless of who the next puppet figurehead is. You cannot un-ring the bell.

I’m not intimately familiar with the culture but as an American, it would be something that would make me uncomfortable.

Others carry thoughts they would never attach to their name anywhere.

As do I, I guess the difference being that sharing that thought without self-attribution would serve me no better than keeping it safe inside.

I can see an argument that the exit node is someone else’s computer. An an example of this risk, honeypot Tor exit nodes.

In this context, however, I would trust Mullvad’s exit nodes, I think. Well, do trust them, since I use them, just not for anything that would get me in hot water.

Well, as they say, it takes all kinds but I wouldn’t want to be on either end of an anonymous confession of any magnitude.

I neither benefit from yelling my secrets into the void or reading someone else’s.

I think most people that think they were taught this in school actually just heard it a lot from random friends and acquaintances, as I did. I heard this all the time but never from a scholarly authority.

YMMV, of course.

Might it be related to the chewing of a tougher food? My tinnitus gets worse sometimes when my TMJ is acting up.

I remember these signs when I was a kid in south FL in the 70s. It was popular to keep the beachgoers out, I don’t know if it was to keep the company out of hot water should something happen to the shirtless or shoeless customer while they’re in the store or whether it was just a choice in who to serve.

As for your question about pants: Since the “No shirt…” phrase isn’t there to make something legally binding but rather a notice to people that this particular business is exercising their right to not serve you, no, you likely won’t get served without pants.

local dial-up BBSs sharing gif and wav clips and chatting about anything that you felt like at the moment

AOL chatrooms

free hosted forums on Anglefire and Geocities

Larger forums(SA, Fark, etc)

FB/instagram

Lemmy/Piefed

I think that would be my path as it relates to communities where I actually ended up having a social community involved. I would say that it also is a direct increase in toxicity as it works downward. I find Lemmy/Piefed just as toxic as any other platform but the lack of a forced algorithm lets me basically mute all of the negative content sources and it’s niche enough that you can actually mute the negative influence, which makes for a pleasant experience.

I imagine the fact that they allow the embedding of videos on other sites make it hard to restrict the playback to that degree. There seems to be a tipping point at which they’ll work on breaking something, more than likely based on it’s popularity When enough 3rd party frontends figured out background playback, they took the time to develop a way to break it. I think the same will happen when they feel too many people are circumventing their data scraping, ads or algorithms. They’ll finally go all in but it’s clear that they don’t want to do that just yet.

Welcome to Lemmy.

Why is this even mildly infuriating? Who’s that emotionally invested in a corporation and a bunch of influencers patting each other on the back?

I guess apple owners are just a known gullible consumer pool to tap.

I have not met a too-big open world as of yet.