I thought they meant “Not if you are still on Plasma 5” but maybe I misinterpreted it.

they’ve duplicated the censorship thing that reddit likes to do with defederations

I disagree that defederation is censorship, but no worries, we don’t have to agree! However:

i switched to lemmy.ml since it doesn’t defederate with anybody

https://lemmy.ml/instances

If you switch to the “blocked” tab you’ll see that this is absolutely not true.

One of my primary criteria when I needed to make a new lemmy account (due to problems with my original instance) was to be sure I picked an instance that had pre-emptively defederated from Threads. (as .ml does, but there are a lot more in that list)

And he also is overwhelmed by needing to do things in life but not knowing where to start.

You’re a human and you need someone to validate you. I can’t do that from a keyboard, but I can offer an internet hug.

There’s a lot of good advice here. I have a son not too different in age than you. Your post made me want to give you a long hug. I’m sure you have many things about you that are assets and you haven’t had anyone in your life to help you find them.

As others have said, you sound smarter than you think you are, and your writing is good!

Small steps, and celebrate the small victories. Make one little thing better about yourself or your life every day. No matter how small. And be proud of yourself when you’ve done so.

Go take the good advice from others, but here’s a Dad Hug™.

Only in a two-party system.

So you mean - like the system this election took place within?

It’s a little bit ironic to me that the security company formerly run by the man who literally wrote the book on social engineering may have fallen victim to a social engineering attack.

Super happy to be that Linux guy sitting by myself with no one to bother me while I’m getting things done.

It’s just too fucking dark for me. I don’t dislike a gritty show necessarily but I couldn’t make it through more than the first few episodes. It seemed good, but damn I have plenty of problems and shittiness in my real life, I like my entertainment to make me feel better, not worse. 😀

May I please steal this for future use?

Oh but excuse me for being a grandpa because obviously the toxic and impersonal method of socializing you kids do today

You didn’t even catch that I’m in my 50s but I’m supposed to be concerned with your analysis?

OK Grampa (I say this as someone in my 50s) - but that’s not the same kind of communication that twitter is for.

Back in my grandparents’ youth people would write letters to each other and send them through the mail, but the phone is good for other kinds of interaction, just like social media is good for yet other kinds of interaction.

Finally a reference to arch btw that I can not roll my eyes at. Should be a sticky post.

Our Democrats would never let him win, and that’s before you even get to the Republicans. Republican heads might actually explode if we elected a progressive who dared to call themselves a Democratic Socialist.

Meanwhile, Democrats are also crushed under the thumb of all the money big business pours into bribery lobbying, and they have already made it clear twice that they won’t let him get on the ballot.

We’ll never get progressive policies or a progressive president unless the progressives infiltrate D to the extent maga has infiltrated R.

We’d just be disappointed again. The right would hate him more than Hillary and corporatist Dems still control the DNC. They wouldn’t let him win.

OTOH a common opinion I hear is that he probably has more capability for direct lasting change being where he is, and I can see that being true, so there is that bit of small comfort.

I’d give my life savings to see this from Sanders. Of course, then we’d lose him, so it would have to be part of his retirement announcement.

That seems to have been the problem because I’m still not a moderator. Yay! Thanks again!

Microsoft has gone too far:

Just now, with this?

You know, I wonder if the issue isn’t that the removing-yourself-as-mod action that you did on lemmy.ml maybe didn’t properly federate back to lemmy.world . That at least makes sense in my brain.

I could totally see that. Thanks again!

This was part of my point the last time I brought it up. I figured abusing my power enough to pin a topic (then again when it happened again) would likely alert the right people.