I don’t think the comparison to react makes a ton of sense - Facebook created react as an open source project, but once you download react, you have a copy of it for yourself and you don’t need to check in with Facebook any further. They don’t own your react app or its data.

I may be misunderstanding, but it sounds like threads will not be like that: they will be using an open standard that they did not create for a social network that will track you and gather your data every time you use it.

(I am for defederation)

Wow holy shit!!! Glad his followers have an opportunity to snap out of it! (Not that they necessarily will)

I wrote “arguments” instead of “argument” because it was pretty clear to those of us outside the drama that for a lot of people it was about hating on women who had the audacity to make shitty indie games like any other shitty indie developer. There was a point hidden in there somewhere about unfair practices in the game industry in general, but I’m skeptical that most people really remember it for that today.

I want to say in advance that I am happy for everyone here who exited this pipeline, especially if you were just a kid. But I gotta say - it is creepy to me how many people there are who think so little of women that the gamer gate arguments could convince them at all. As a little kid I thought that someday men and women would all realize that we’re in this together and we’d learn to respect each other as human beings. I was so wrong.

I’ve read about it happening in the US in poorer communities with houses that sit empty - bricks and other materials can be taken, too.

Some really seem to love Paul more than Jesus. It seems so easy for bigots to find parts of the bible they agree with and ignore how Jesus acted entirely, since it’s all part of the bible. One of many reasons I view Christianity as a net negative in the world.

“derpina”

Maybe if they’re smart enough to do that we can just let them pass

Tbh I think a lot of developers either don’t know that they need to fix this or don’t know how to fix this. They get a mock-up from the designer and implement what they see, and their implementation work is reviewed be other engineers and product people, but less often (IME) by UX. Sometimes there’s no one to push for fixing these kind of things, especially when the developers don’t use the software they make in their own day-to-day lives.

Yes - and certain groups of evangelical Christians behave like weird “Jews for Jesus” cosplayers (they call themselves “messianic jews”)

That’s correct (11 years old) - I do believe this, though (or at least that it’s mostly accurate). I don’t think we get a really clear picture of this group online - they’re probably not going to be posting a lot on the major text-focused social media networks (including facebook, for example).

To me it seems like it’s not so much about city vs. rural but about rich vs. poor. One thing that’s really fucked up to me is how school funding in the US is generally heavily based on the property taxes from the immediate area - so areas that are already rich get the best schools, and poorer areas have worse. I don’t believe the situation will change anytime soon, unfortunately.