Do it.

Enough with tolerating that bullshit.

Let them spew their hate, just make sure it’s contained.

Preferably where nobody can see or hear them.

I take stock.

What are my personal positive achievements?

Where am I right now, is it a good place?

It doesn’t have to be my final destination, but is it good?

If I strip away all the fringe and lingering bullshit, am I safe and happy in this specific point in time?

Like right now: I am on the couch drinking coffee on a Saturday morning. I have three dogs with me. I am safe and I am loved.

What happens tomorrow is future zombie_kong’s problem. Not todays.

Edit: you got this. It’s nothing. A mere blip in this adventure we call living.

My opinion is that if you give a shit about how and where you spend your time, you will not support a platform run by and inhabited by dickheads.

Vote with your feet, or thumbs in this case.

Love it. This is an example of what decentralized means.

Everyone working together towards a common goal.

Nope. I can stop whenever I like.

Fully in control.

Nothing to see here.

It’s the worst.

Trying to make friends as an adult is hard work!

All these political opinions, skewed world views, left and right biases.

I just want to hang out with some other like minded people.

You know what pisses me off?

My so-called creative peers generating AI slop images to go with the music that they are producing.

I’m pretty sure they’d be up in arms if they found out that an AI produced tune got to the top 10 on Beatport.

One of the more popular AI movements right now is DJs creating themselves as action figures.

The hypocrisy is hilarious.

I feel this.

What is the actual point of publishing knowledge bases and documentation if nobody reads them?

My biggest problem is figuring out what I want to do with any coding skills. I have none, by the way, and I don't even know where to start.

Some of the usual responses when I state this:

"Automate your work" - I work in Salesforce. Have you seen Salesforce? I'm not a multi faceted systems administrator constantly updating DNS records or working in Active Directory.

"Write a cool app" - What cool app? What is "cool"?

"Open dev tools and look around" - Why? Specifically, why?

Also, learning programming is BORING. Most of the courses I've tried are so so stale and they aaallll end up explaining concepts in the same way.

"This is a fleeble and it holds the sping, the sping tells the plus plus that it must do what the herbug says".

k.

If you’re not feeling 100%, take a day.

Variables being: do you like your job?

Is your employer a fair employer?

Will the business crumble if you’re not there? I mean, if it does, that’s a company problem, not a you problem.

You should be working to live, not the other way around.

They’ve really fucked that place.

Such a shame.

Anyway…

Yes.

I was afraid it would be a mid range sci fi but it’s turned out to be fantastic.

Correct, that's pretty much it.

Try not to injure yourselves whilst celebrating.

We’re mostly just keeping ourselves to ourselves.

You guys do you.

I'm not alone.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/20255

Compute was never an issue. I had my instance hosted on Hetzner and it ran just fine.

My concern is the storage, as described above, constantly checking disk space, cronjobs, purging etc etc

And whether I host a single user or a multi user instance is neither here or there. My question still stands.

Ah, the humans.

On one hand they’re all for peace and unity but on the other hand they’re still using platforms owned by a man who had a hand in orchestrating military killings, swinging the US elections, facilitating Brexit etc and a man who, amongst other things, has been photographed partying with Maxwell, Murdoch, Trump and all the other evil fucks.

That’s how we like it.

I was using Memmy but I’ve just discovered wefwef.

No downvotes. I use BAMO.

Block and move on.

I’m here for memes and boobs, ain’t nobody got time for dickheads.