Recent comments in /f/venting

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Reply to i dont want to by ___

its frustrating that i have just enough self control left that i wont ever do anything about it

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neku wrote

Reply to It really still makes me angry the way people have stopped caring about Covid. by flabberghaster

remember the beautiful moment we had where societally we were like "maybe we can establish a new normal of cleaner air for people indoors, reduced transmission of airborne transmission of pathogens, smarter policies around sick leave and working from home" and The Powers That Be were like "actually we thought about it and that would make the money sad :( get back in the fucking office"

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hollyhoppet wrote

Reply to i'm a girl by ___

fun transgender fact: if you wish you were a girl, chances are that you are, in fact, a girl

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neku wrote

Reply to i hung up my laundry yesterday but i had to close the window in the evening because mosquitos started coming in and now my laundry is still wet and i wish i had better venting so i guess this post is a vent vent post by ___

i've read that if you have a little bit of laundry you can hang it up in your bathroom with the extractor fan on and thatll help. my bathroom is like 3 square metres so that doesn't work for me but maybe you're a high roller. otherwise maybe you could get a screen for your window. or just put your clothes outside. my roommates dont put their clothes out to dry when its sunny and its like... but that's optimal drying time

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cute_spider wrote

Reply to wtf do i do? by ___

Gosh I with I had a good answer for this but all I can suggest is to keep moving

even if you moved all day and it was 100% set backs, it's at least better than doing nothing

so wtf do you do? please just keep trying to do anything

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flabberghaster wrote (edited )

Reply to I hate the victimism surrounding the discourse of Facebook possibly EEE'ing the fediverse like in XMPP by nitori

Take the big corporation's move as a victory and vindication of your open cause, but also see it as a wake-up call and challenge to support your favorite implementation's developers and their spec writers, whether by money, code, or simple evangelism ("hey bestie look at Misskey it has custom reactions which you can't do in Threads!")

I sort of think this is wrong. The reason they're currently playing nice is because they see a green field that's open to them. Fediverse has been a success! This is true! They wouldn't bother to EEE it I'd it hadn't been.

But, this is always how it goes. This is the "embrace" phase of the cycle. I don't think the people who are virulently opposed to Facebook integrating are oblivious to that. And also, using it as an opportunity to tout features threads still lacks, I think, is a losing game, because Facebook has billions if dollars and the ability to clone any features someone might want. An open project like any if the fedi clients cannot compete with them on features, all it has is the ability to say "we're not going to enable a genocide like FB does and we're a bit better at respecting your autonomy and privacy."

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