Don’t feel dumb! This is just normal learning!

Symlinks are possible in Windows (at least in NTFS filesystems) but to my knowledge they aren’t used by anything official.

Windows’s weird “psuedo folders” thing it does with “Documents” etc is something else entirely.

Would be nice to have some more content there leaning more into the weird than the depressing.

Of all the jokes C&H could do about “mouthful mode”, this is far tamer than I was prepared for.

We can filter out NSFW work

[citation needed]

I have that turned on, and I heavily lean on blocking communities and users, and I still get NSFW shit fairly regularly.

Maybe make use of the existing blocking features, and use a client that has keyword filtering?

I’ve been able to get my experience pretty damn close to as filtered as I want it just with community, instance, and user blocking.

Who decides what is “without a doubt”?

Everyone’s personal barometer is going to vary on that wildly.

If each instance decides on their own usage, then it no longer becomes a useful filter. We already see this with the NSFW tag (god forbid I ask for it to be put on a post showing the business end of a fleshlight hanging out the rear end of a stuffed animal dog, that isn’t nsfw apparently because it’s not real nudity or something).

From one coder to another: This is classic coder overconfidence. The complexity isn’t in the hypothetical code but in the people and how the feature may or may not be used.

Explodingheads is going to have a distinctly different idea of “political” than Lemmygrad.

The Fediverse has few enough daily users that you can block political communities and the people who post overwhelmingly political content outside of those communities.

You can also use one of the handful of clients that allow keyword filtering.

Alternatively, they live in or near poorly designed urban areas. There are definitely some in my local urban city center.

Only if I can make “cute” faces at you and go pspspspspspsps

But if I can’t get upset at things someone clearly didn’t mean, why bother going online at all?

I’ll stick to the oil, thanks. Maybe the chicken. Anything bigger and it just slides out that side hole! Talk about wasted calories.

To summarize my comment on your post of this article on lemmy.ml:

Literally who?

How in the absolute fuck does any group not involved in hosting the largest fediverse instances even begin to justify looking for $1.3 Million in funding?

I see you’ve met my toddler. She’s a master of the scientific process.

By which I mean she will try something that caused her finger to get stuck three more times to check if her finger gets stuck every time.

It’s not unreasonable to ask for a NSFW tag so I don’t casually scroll into an image with the business end of a pocket pussy on my feed.

My morality and logic is just different.

Holy shit you cannot be real. I just choked on my water.

Man you are like the postershild of that meme about playing chess with a pigeon. Knock over the board, shit on everything, and strut away with every fiber of your being reinforcing the idea that you “won”.

You’re more than welcome to find retroactive justification for your actions, or to shore up in your head the concept that the end result justifies your means. But that doesn’t mean “I’m just built different I guess, teehee!” like some sort of badge of honor.

From life experience, and from knowing a number of people like you over my years: If you continue with this sort of attittude towards life, and general pattern of behavior, it will come back to bite you hard someday. When it does you will likely not find many people sympathethic to you or willing to help you, due to your own behavior.

I’m fairly certain that you aren’t the type of person capable of reflecting on your behavior or the responses to it in the last thread or this one and learning to ba a better person from it, but in the rare chance:

Your own descriptions of your own actions meant to portray you as being in the right instead portray you as an impatient asshole with the emotional and psychological maturity level of a 12 year old, who also has an absurdly inflated idea of the value of themself and their actions.

There is not much worse in this world than self righteous fuckstains taking actions that were never asked for or wanted, with the motivation that they are only doing what is best for other people who never asked for their help.

Would it be too much to ask for a NSFW tag on this? Thanks.

I’m not saying Bluesky sucks, but this is childish.

Bluesky was started by the same guy who started Twitter, and is only federated in concept.

It was never meant to be “Twitter but better”. It was always meant to be “How can we make the most money off fleeing twitter users?”. There’s a lot of overlap between the money making and being better, but it’s incidental to the real goal. Any claims otherwise are pure marketing.

Did any of Chuck Tingle’s books get physical releases?

I’m glad there are ways to get it working, and thank you for sharing it, but this doesn’t qualify as “it just works, why are you idiots not switching from Windows when Linux just works”.

This is directly why a lot of people don’t take the arguments that Linux is ready for the average user seriously.