Try to be informed about the stuff you can have an impact on

For example on my rss feed I just wiped out most of the non EU stuff. It’s ok to know that there are wildfires somewhere in the world but being overexposed is really just toxic

I can organize here in Italy, not even the whole of it but my region and the cities I spend time in. It’s much better to know what my little city council is discussing about rather than any even major event but so far from me.

Unluckily, social media doesn’t help too much with curating the feeds but as others said try to work more on mutes and filters. Don’t forget that getting informed is just one tool for change, do not get too high on it :)

Edit and P.S. : it’s also much easier that on social networks driven by engagement algorithms the posts that travel the most are the ones that cause hate/rage and sex or generally emotions easier to exploit online. Newspapers themselves tend to post more negative stuff. It’s just a human bias, take it into account and watch around yourself to find the positive stuff of life

Just avoid following climate and collapse x)

I myself do not follow them lol

yes, hence why i used a dot before it. i guess it’s not clear and i should edit

tell me if it’s better now :)

After the API exodus sure got worse but I don’t see much difference from the reddit-before-that

Also, there are still a looot of power users still on reddit. So yes quality got worse there but it’s not like the bests came here anyway

Sad tho.

“Random” events of “evil”. Basically I think we’ll never reach something like 0 murders, 0 rapes, 0 stealing for little greed and so on. Or even 0 addiction (edit: i’m not including addiction to the previous list of crimes, i wanted to add it as another class of issues for we will never reach a true 0)

We are very very far from the ideal situation tho, there is a looot of margin of improvement

Like your alcohol thing in the post: ban only makes it worse and still now you (as US, not you OP) have a very weird relationship with alcohol with the thing that minors cannot touch it and people have to drink from a paper bag lol. Let’s say that you are not really trying hard to improve the situation. We’ll never reach 0 alcoholists but society is not in a good shape and alcohol is cheap so ye

I’m not sure I’m explaining myself well enough.

That was my point since the beginning and you are not the first one repeating it lol

Free as in freedom not just as in beer

And paying for distribution is not the same as paying for the software…

No, because I cannot compile stuff

Exactly why I said it’s easier to have people paying on iOS for foss

There are no apk to just avoid stores

It’s actually “easier” to sustain a FOSS app on Apple for this reason

You put a price tag to the client/app and there it is a business model without relying on donation, because the user cannot sideload without being a dev :)

Sorry but how is it ghosting? You tried more and more to contact him and he didn’t answer? Because if no one contacts the other is just idk end of something not ghosting lol

You wanna talk with him about this stuff? Do it!

And don’t put on him all the “immature” or “receiving side” stuff, you are the one clearly into him but still going around and around never being direct…

You can do it! 🤜🤛

B-Corp. But as long as they don’t show any kind of sustainable business model compared to their costs, ye the result doesn’t differ much

Maybe it’s sharing public keys in person time again

Honestly i’d like something that focuses on this rather than trying once again to be WhatsApp/telegram but secure

The police already can easily know my irl social circle but I still don’t want to let them know when and why I talk to them

Simplex was in a good direction then they took vc money while having startup status and they are aiming to replace other messengers

Rimu I love your approach to mod tools!

Sorry if I ask this but now that Lemmy has extism plugins, wouldn’t it be better if you tried to extend lemmy with your python skills rather than keeping to build from 0? Would help the fun even more I think (?)

Games can be one of the nice forms of entertainment like tv series or films, so i’d say yes.

Just try to look for really good games, like zelda breath of the wild, bioshock infinite, twelve minutes, sayonara wild hearts and so on. No online games, no infinite games, no games that are more like a job than a game (where you have to grind for everything) and so on. Games that let you enjoy the gameplay, the art and the story without making you feel like ‘‘oh i have to login or i lose the fit and i have to get the daily rewards and bla bla bla’’.

do you have any hint on why i would prefer it over kde? i’m not a linux user right now but kde looks already the most polished experience, i don’t know where it lacks :O

This is a very good and interesting answer, thank you!

Have you taken a look to pavex? Do you think it will fall into the same path?

Probably. They are based here in Europe so I guess that’s the reason