Nothing wrong with having a key pair, but yeah, most of the content in Nostr is unfortunately cryptocurrency related.

You’re not wrong, but the oil and gas industry, and generations of families have made livings on it, and our resulting current world status and wealth is largely founded upon it.

It’s a problem; you can hate the problem, but ignoring it isn’t a solution, and it’s cost Democrats elections. This isn’t a handful of Klansmen; it’s an entire industry. The supply chain employs nearly 10M people in the US. Telling then you fuck off, relocate, and find different jobs doesn’t win any votes.

I was wondering if this was a pre-Thagomizer comic, or just a missed chance at self-reference.

Service was terrible when I went, too, and talk about dirty; the place must have been covered in like, 6 pes of dust, no joke!

Caffeine works. Melatonin has never done anything for me; maybe I’m immune, but I’ve put it in the same mental basket as homeopathy.

Well, duh. Anyone who didn’t know this hasn’t been paying attention. He’s (Trump) said as much, himself.

We will all become crab.

Contrasts on having a girlfriend who shares her awesome dreams with you in real-time.

Yeah, despite the strong anti-crypto sentiment on Lemmy, this is exactly the problem that projects like Nostr is trying to solve by integrating Lighting as a first-class payment system in the ecosystem.

Services get paid for by one of four ways:

• Harvesting and reselling of user data. Which is wildly unpopular, and why a lot of people are on Lemmy and not Reddit or Facebook.
• Ads. Which is also unpopular and again why people come to services like Lemmy
• Pay-for-service, which is what you’re suggesting, only via crypto, which is easier than accepting credit card transactions, and safer for users.
• The hosted paying for it out of the goodness of their hearts. So, charity. Sometimes there’s corporate charity, and that’s nice, except for the potential for money coming with strings attached, now or eventually.

Someone always pays; its expensive to host a popular instance. People suggesting you should host for free are selfish freeloaders, so know that some people understand that hosting costs, and sympathize with with your desire to offset that cost.

I like the volunteer micro-transaction model. Those who can afford to pay some amount for good service, and hopefully this provides welfare for those who can’t afford to pay. But the cryptocurrency space is a mess at the moment, and an economical currency (probably proof-of-stake rather than proof-of-work) needs to gain some traction, and overcome a lot of ignorant bigotry.

Someone else pointed out that they blocked the fracking bill.

However, this is a tough topic for Dems, and it’s one of the reasons the Teamsters haven’t endorsed them; one of the reasons is because industries like fracking provides well-paying blue-collar jobs.

Remember, back in 2016, when Hillary said at a rally that if she was elected they were going to shut down the coal industry? That was a “they said the quiet part out loud” moment for blue-collar industry, and while it’s too much blame to lay on Hillary, it really did drive another nail in the coffin of blue-collar support for Democrats, which they’re still struggling to recover.

Democrats have two conflicting goals: support blue collar jobs, and stop environmental destruction. Actions like this benefit the environment, but cost them votes and the support of Unions.

It’s a catch-22. Biden did a fantastic thing showing up at that picket line, but there’s a long way to go to recover those blue-collar votes.

Everybody dies.

The End.

I like to internalize this as a victory, and the utter humiliation of the person who offended me. They said “Sorry.” That’s admitting defeat!

Status represented by hat size?

Another way to interpret it is, “leadership pay has absolutely no impact on the success of a product.”

Yet another way is, “if you’re struggling, put your money into almost anything else than raises for upper management.”

I agree. I do appreciate the spirit of OP’s comment, that we are agents. I observe a lot of people who blame everything but themselves for their circumstances, and take responsibility for nothing.

However, sometimes you get the meteorite, and sometimes the meteorite gets you; we’re none of us 100% in control of our fates.

Thank you! It came from my brain. I’m not aware that it’s been said that way by anyone else, although I don’t think it’s a unique observation.

To be fair, it is a very long-winded post. I think it’s not an uncommon use case, though, and so deserved a robust sketch of the desired solution; Farmville and chat are sideshows, and what the people left on Facebook are really there for are the Walls.

There are some excellent apps out there, and by and large they look and work better than commercial apps, IME. So I disagree with the assertion that I have to stay with commercial software.

What I was asking for, in my post, was not which apps have better UX than Facebook, but rather which of the very many OSS, federated (although, not necessary for my use case), self-hosted platforms fit the specific use, and ideally with a straightforward iOS mobile app. Doesn’t have to be pretty; just has to be able to quickly take and post photos to a private channel/community/wall.

Circles really is quite nice in all respects. I think they’re hindered by their choice of backend. I’ve been using Matrix for years, and key management has always been a hot mess. I wouldn’t be surprised if the issues we encountered were related to Matrix’s god-awful and buggy PK negotiation & management process.

This is so true.

The only thing the righteous hate more than a heathen is a heretic.

Sectarianism is a fractal war where the only indivisible faction is the individual.

The latter.

There have always been despicable people like Trump, and I’m certain that, as horrible people go, he’s not even in the top thousand of horrible people alive today.

It’s far more sad that so many people in the US are willing to overlook his faults; even if you discount his rabid base, it’s especially sad that close to another 20% of Americans who are more or less centrists (for Americans) are willing to overlook the fact that he admits that he’s working toward a dictatorship. This is the most depressing thing, for me.

I stub my toe. Is that a “have to?”