A hobbyist game dev, professional software engineer, and incremental connoisseur. I’m the creator of Profectus. He/him

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  • I’m in TX with a whole bunch of constituents amendments on the ballot. Never too optimistic about making a difference in such a conservative state, and particularly annoyed the only thing that could have a positive effect on our failing electric grid is a tax incentive for natural gas 🤮.

    The only prop I’m still on the fence about is the university fund. I’m skeptical of state funding for universities, because my understanding is quite a bit of that goes to admin instead of lowering tuition. But most organizations seem to support the proposition, and the only ones who oppose it say they do so because the universities are too “woke”. I don’t want to vote in alignment with some alt right organizations :/



  • I’m not sure why you would need accounts on all those different platforms. Isn’t the whole point of posse that you just post it once and then anyone, regardless of platform, can see it? That’s what already happens (with the caveat that some, like lemmy, won’t show you certain types of posts, like notes).

    And people following you on one platform but not another sounds like more of a desire for multiple identities, each one a fragment of your actual identity. That’s another concept, that stuff like socialhub try to implement.








  • What’s the bad space? Based on them mentioning block lists, I’m guessing it’s a community that gets blocked by a lot of instances?

    Fwiw, I think it’s totally fine for communities to defederate from other places en masse. The whole point of federation is for small, customized communities. If a community decides it doesn’t want x or y, then that’s fine. Individuals who no longer feel like they align with the community can find another or create their land.


  • Fwiw, I think using a self hosted home automation setup (shout out to home assistant) paired with smart devices that don’t use internet (e.g. zigbee, zwave, or matter once it comes out) can allow you to have a smart home without these kinds of fears.

    That said, I would definitely agree to using mechanical locks. Although a monitored smart security system is probably still a good idea - you’re letting a company virtually enter your house, but you can’t rely on a self hosted solution to notify you when your power goes out, for example.


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    I think it makes sense for a community to dictate what tags are allowed within that community. It’s a similar system to tags on reddit. The programming community would probably have tags for each paradigm, you just wouldn’t have to worry about people writing Vue, Vue.js, and Vue.JS as different tags.




  • Just as a heads up, anarchism doesn’t preclude monetization. Co-ops are anarchist alternatives to corporations and already exist in many of the more progressive areas of the US today. The principle is just to remove unjust hierarchies, and you can still do that as much as possible while living under capitalism. Sure maybe some have founded some anarchist commune and live completely cash free, but I think the majority are just trying to flatten the hierarchies as much as is reasonable, and acknowledge the necessity of money in our current society.

    As an anecdote, I’m pretty far left myself and will regularly read and participate in anarchist communities, but am totally okay with people trying to earn money in an as fair and ethical way as is reasonable in our current society.