Kovaelin @Kovaelin@qoto.org

@mngrif Happy to help. It's only eight episodes this time, but the story is tight!

Season 2 of Altered Carbon was quite good. It took me a while to get into it, just like the first season, but I'm looking forward to more.

@Elfie Worst case scenerio is that you OD and go to another happy place.

@Ricotta @coolboymew

After a few months of use, I gotta say that the Fire Stick 4K is my favourite budget streaming device. I'll probably pick up another if it goes down to $35 again.

@kura Ice cream is a magical food.

@kura I would need help eating that before it turned to soup.

@freemo True, but on the bird site, you don't start off banned. Defederation impacts more than the individual. Neither case is perfect, and admins making decisions on behalf of all their users is just the same parenting problem as before. The whole point of having the local timeline is so people that want to shelter themselves from the global one can do so, and still follow individuals from other instances themselves. Defederation and handing that control over just defeats the purpose. @design_RG @mngrif

@freemo It's a bit disheartening, because I initially thought that decentralization would get us away from the bird site problems, but it seems that some people just want their own bird site instead. @design_RG @mngrif

@freemo @design_RG @mngrif Pressure from their users? Huh.

@design_RG @mngrif The list seems extensive and arbitrary. Users will eventually notice the disadvantages of being there and leave.

I'm actually kind of comforted by this, and there's no reason to leave QOTO for another instance, since they'll probably eventually make the list anyway.

It's just people crotchety about not being able to admin instances that don't belong to them. It's indeed petty, as people have said.

@freemo @mngrif Thanks for the explanation.

@freemo @mngrif I'm most surprised that mastodon.technology seems to be on that list.

@mngrif @freemo Ah, thanks. I thought people you followed always showed up. Jeez... How did this happen?

@mngrif @freemo Is there a list of instances that have defederated with this one?

@mngrif @freemo TL?

Elections and tax season only remind me that government is just organized crime with extra steps. Super organized... except not really. Convoluted crime? Legalized crime?

@freemo @mngrif Is something wrong?

Winterlude was pretty underwhelming this year. At least, I don't have to shovel anymore.

Maybe I should look into Questrade.