"Get over yourself" was a little rough. If I had to summarize, I'd say they meant you're not posting regularly enough to gain a following.
I've never seen your posts before now.
Every national government is going to consider and consider again before making such major changes in their financial system. They have to think about who benefits, but also about who gets harmed.
It is important, to realize that we're not really in competition with other decentralized social networks. We're trying to break the stranglehold that the corpocentric socnets have over online social. Everyone that uses any decentralized socnet instead of the big corporate centralized networks helps chip away their dominance.
That's also why I favor bridges between decentralized protocols and multiprotocol sites. If I don't have to join $NETWORK in order to interact with my contacts there, that benefits me and means we don't have to maintain a centralized fallback.
I think the instance model used by the Fediverse is too vulnerable to petty dictators, so they'll eventually need something closer to peer-to-peer (possibly Nostr or similar, as P2P that works as the network grows does not seem to be a solved problem). But it is a good intermediate step for people leaving centralized platforms.
TL;DR: The goal at this stage is to weaken the centralized platforms, not pick the eventual winner. Every decentralized user gained is progress.
I drove 4+ hours to visit a Krispy Kreme in Kansas City once. Of course I also picked a friend half way there and went to MicroCenter and then a BBQ place.
#RonDesantis give a great answer here on two fronts:
We need to shore up the border to keep #fentanyl from flowing across it
Explain how #Mexico could actually end up paying for a border wall
#GOPDebate
https://social.teci.world/media/7eba2a83eca24a84fe667f9a3287106a8ff57754a35fa9516b9becf26d5beb78.mp4
I only heard of fentanyl a few years ago. The question is: are we sure that a significant portion of street fentanyl is imported? If it is being made in backyard drug labs, then trying to block it at the border is a waste.
It's pretty scary that they can be that ignorant about the necessity for anonymous and pseudonymous "speech".
I really do hope they figure out how to host economically ... and how to federate without losing their paid userbase. If former President Trump's motive was being deplatformed from #corpocenric socnets, he should consider that a non-federated platform leaves his users in the same boat.
Thank you, nostr:npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 for what you are doing. If I ever make it to Austin TX, I will try to meet.
I'd say it is a vanishingly small percentage of people who "designed" society by enforcing their choices on the rest of us. I also disagree that said designers were all male.
To some degree, society is just today's ruling choices laid atop the prior day's ruling choices with near infinite recursion.
That said, we can and should be trying to make society better for all of us.
I remember reading something about crazy high hosting costs. Maybe someone should tell them to shop around for reliable hosting that doesn't break the bank.
I used to just add books to their returned stack. No need for plaques or someone to approve the donation.
McD's is the market leader by far. They can and do set prices, even when inflation was low.
There was some issue at a private ACH processor (contractor for the Fed?). The banks have to re-send those transactions.
With the unstable management over there, any dependency on Twitter is a bad thing.