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  • I go to pixelfed to post my art and view other peoples art. that’s it. I don’t go there to read posts or what’s going on in peoples lives.

    Yes but being able to do that is a design goal of the fediverse

    Is it? Beause that seems really dumb.

    Here’s a radical idea: sometimes, web services are built with features you don’t use. Sometimes you don’t even *value *those features. But, in cases where your preference isn’t in the majority, the decision to include those features won’t match your personal preference.

    Sometimes, the ability to share and see content between different sites is even a core value.

    Weird.

    For more information, search “false consensus”.

    You may want to learn how you can configure your own accounts on various services to manage what you see on each one. Because, to some extent, that’s a configuration option.






  • I rode a bicycle to the 10th grade when I wrecked it in a non-dramatic fashion. Down the boulevard of a busy rural highway (shippers and logging) I’d ride every day to school.

    I’ve never worn a helmet. #gen-x

    Not proud of it, but it’s a quirk. I came here more to say that helmets are new for some of us.

    Wasn’t there a paper about behavior changes with helmets and how the added safety could be off-set by more risk?

    Finally: what’s the helmet situation in other countries, especially around ad-hoc rental scooters? I see scooters and bikes for rent here, but no buckets to wear, and I wonder the legality of that too.




  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.catoOpen Source@lemmy.mlBill Gates is a horrible person.
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    Bill Gates spent a lot of his pro years running a bad company quite well, and exploiting a dominant position in the market that any soulless biz guy would love to have.

    He seemed to get a conscience around the time he stopped running the show, and seems to be different while not regretting his behavior in that phase.

    I think we can decide he was a bit of a cock back then, while still noting he’s done some good work since. We are nuanced enough, right?