Well I’d lean on the shoulder of giants in terms of the actual service and not do it completely from scratch given we’ve got Facebook-likes in the fediverse, you could suggest to them. But basically yes from a network perspective unfortunately

Although you have given me an idea for an angle that the fediverse is perfect for: set up an instance for your local area

That allows you to also do the “screw untrustworthy big tech, keep things local with people you know” kind of angle.

Also obviously a fair bit of work, and you still have to ultimately convince people to use it, but worth highlighting regardless.

You unfortunately are coming at the problem from the wrong direction.

The only social network they will want to use is the one with all their friends on it; and for the older generations, that’s basically just Facebook.

In order to get them to move you’d need to get their friends to move, and in order to get their friends to move, you’ll need to get their friends to also move. It’s called the network effect and it’s why it’s incredibly hard for any non-established social networks to gain much of a market share.

Your best bet (which is by no means a guarantee) is to wait for the latest Facebook scandal to be in the news, and chat to them about it whilst they’re watching it on TV. Plus add a bit more fuel by doing the ol’ “oh this reminds me of something else I was reading a couple of months ago…” And have some other recent scandals in your back pocket to fire out. Bonus points if you can already establish yourself on something like Friendica, which will allow you to say “yeah I quit Facebook a while ago, the company running it just seems skeevy, I’ve been using friendica instead for a bit now” or something like that

Then you have to hope that registers enough as a talking point amongst them and their friends that it sticks. But you have an uphill struggle ahead with no certainty of success.

Honestly not much generally, life is for living, I’m privileged enough to be in a decent paid job that affords me that luxury. Though if I’m on a run of not saving for a few months, it’s time to find something to dial something back a bit, because that’s a sign I’m potentially living unsustainably

I learned the hard way when I was younger that living financially sustainably should be priority one, every month you live unsustainably is at least a couple of months it’ll take to climb out of the hole. And once you’re pretty deep things take their toll on your happiness

Significant enough to talk about

Desperation forces rational people to act irrational

If you can tell yourself you don’t want something because you believe it’s bad for you, when the real issue is you can’t afford the treatment, it hurts less emotionally

Particularly if you happen to be in America where everyone is propagandised into thinking everything bad that happens to them is a personal failure

Thanks to the internet, conspiracies get wings, and now we have American-originated conspiracies making meaningful impact in Europe

Yeah, I was gonna say, it kinda needs to have azadirachtin in it by definition.

If someone sells you neem oil that’s lacking, they’re just a con man.

They killed the third party app I used and the dev migrated it to Lemmy

The Reddit app was (and probably still is) a horrendous cacophony of dark patterns, so Reddit died that day for me because there was no longer a way for me to use it on my phone that wouldn’t give me an aneurism

I mean I’m seeing a lot of Tron legacy, but Tron Ares has a fantastic soundtrack and I’m in no rush to actually watch the film

Well there’s some truth in that it’s not entirely it, the price is reduced because the data they get from tracking your spending habits has a value

They’re not pushing people to these cards for fun

By asking if it’s political, you’ve made it political

Well done

it’s about interpreting tone.

Kinda feels passive aggressive, idk man

That’s silly, and at the very least probably gonna cause unconscious bias to second language speakers, neurodivergent people & just anyone who doesn’t communicate via text as much as we do

You don’t have to use them

Just don’t go making stuff up about people’s intentions when they do

Anyone holding this view can get in the sea

Equally moronic as saying the letter “e” is passive aggressive

Honestly I’ve never wrapped my head around these “food is only fuel” people

Like, the point of life is to enjoy it, why would you actively avoid one of life’s simplest pleasures if it’s not actually harmful? Season your food idiot

I think if you get a smart lock from AliExpress you’re basically inviting someone to rob your house.

Tuya devices are not known for being particularly secure

Well maybe you shouldn’t be trying to do DTP in a word processor

Donate to Lemmy (or Piefed) development directly, then your home instance. If you’ve still got some cash burning a hole in your pocket, donating to instances that host communities you particularly care about is also something you can do

In order of percentage time spent

Streaming service (probably about half the time), Radio (maybe about 20%), Vinyl (say 15%), legal downloads and dubious legality via Plex (about equally 5%)

Some of what I listen to is kinda niche I guess, so I like to support the artist with a purchase (vinyl or Bandcamp download) where I can

Edit: typo

I mean, if you’re an arch user you probably should get it, given it’s kinda the same train if thought that brings most arch users to choose that.

The point is being a barebones system you can do what you want on top of, it tries to avoid making any choice for you.

I’ve kinda often thought of it as the step between LFS and Gentoo/Arch for users who want the most control over their system.

Isn’t this meme the wrong way round?

Joseph Gordon Levitt’s character is the charlatan in the film

Well yes, technology improvements that mean humans can work less are only a good thing if you have an economic system that actually prioritises general wellbeing over enriching a tiny percentage of the population.

Americans are the most fucked because the majority of the public view socialism and adjacent philosophy as being bad, despite really being the only ideologies with any real answers for what happens to people that can’t work for a living, that isn’t just them dying.