meldroc

Safety schmafety, what could possibly go wrong?

IIRC, the biggest problem in a vacuum is that your lungs work in reverse, expelling oxygen from your bloodstream into the void, so you have about 15 seconds of consciousness with which to panic before you black out.

I just binged The Expanse… Yeah, when the space pirates make you walk the airlock, it’s slightly less lethal than being instagibbed by implosion, but certainly far from fun.

Not just the porn subs. A bunch of the weed subs got banned, and the rest got NSFW’d because Mormon Spez wants Reddit as G-rated as Disneyland for the IPO. Why if anyone saw a weed post, it’d make an investor wet their magic underwear!

I like this place already!

Over at the Former Place, the admins have the mistaken assumption that Nazis are actually human.

I’m glad I never got into cryptocurrency. For all intents & purposes, it might as well be Monopoly money.

And when I switch from Local to All, the thing just keeps slapping stories onto the top of the feed while I’m trying to read, makes the site impossible to use.

Definitely needs a fix!

One thing that’ll be nice here in Fediverse land: NSFW stuff now has a place again. Of course, within reason, but not just porn. The weed subreddits have been getting decimated, all of them got NSFW’d and a lot of them got banned, and the ones that haven’t have had Reddit admins crawling up their asses for the pettiest shit. For talking about smoking a plant. Because apparently the suit-and-tie caste that wants Reddit to go IPO want it to be as G-rated as Disneyland.

I remember reading Bluesky’s blurbs about tagging services (that’s apparently a thing with the AT protocol). For example, the SPLC could operate a tagging service, which can tag instances, communities, individual users, threads, etc. with an SPLC-certified “HATE” tag, and server admins could set their instances to automatically delete or block anything with that tag, and users can automatically block anything with that tag.

Nice thing is that in accordance with decentralization, if a tagging service gets overzealous, or gets compromised by bad actors, it’s easy for users to move elsewhere.

I’m making my transition a somewhat gradual one. I’ll still be on Reddit, in the more esoteric subs, though I feel dirty every time I go there. As all the cool kids migrate over, I’ll spend less time there and more time here.