iByteABit [he/him]

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Cake day: July 22nd, 2023

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  • The potential monetization being the donations to give them a living wage? What exactly is the criticism about, that they shouldn’t get a living wage through donations and should rather make the platform paid or ruin it with ads?

    Why do so many people get off on attacking the idea of FOSS, much of the software that is running our everyday lives is supported through FOSS (and lots of them are also being donated to so that the devs can afford to put food on their tables).

    There are also many devs (on Lemmy as well) that contribute a lot without being paid, simply because they like the project, want to make it better, and want to learn by doing.


  • There’s no such thing as ‘apolitical’. The very idea of leaving politics to our superior politicians is what brought us and keeps us in this state.

    This is not at all a political issue however. This is about not being a trash human being. Being racist is not a political opinion, it’s spreading hatred in the world and being a waste of skin.




  • I’m not a psychologist but judging from what you say, you seem to be at the phase of acceptance.

    If you haven’t and still can, you should apologise to whoever you hurt, even if that’s yourself.

    Recognise what led you there, what where your thoughts and feelings that made you do it. Then try your hardest not to do it again.

    Don’t beat yourself up over it, everyone makes mistakes, big and small.

    Let the mistake change you for the better, mistakes are the best and most effective teachers if you decide to listen to them.

    Move on, but make sure to understand and forgive yourself and to let the mistake improve you.


  • Exactly this. I’m fortunate enough that the skills I’m good at have a lot of demand at the moment, but people I know that are more hard working than I am and very talented, struggle to get by just because their job for some reason is considered less worthy to pay for.

    Wanting to maintain this rotten system is the purest form of greed.






  • People here are way to eager to get into political arguments out of nowhere, usually in bad faith. The front-page is covered with doomscrolling content, being here too long makes me miserable and hopeless. The rest of the content is mostly tech stuff, which can only be interesting for so long.

    What I miss from Reddit, is the variety of diverse communities, people having fun and polite conversations, a sense of humor, and a lot of happy content or stuff that’s interesting but not limited to tech.

    At this point, I feel like the technology is much better and the user base much larger, but the user group is so extremely specific.

    I wish people from all political spectrums would engage in a civil conversation here and not reduce it to mockery and attacking. What’s the point of discussion if no one leaves with something new to think?