[-] daan@lemmy.vanoverloop.xyz 44 points 9 months ago

Honestly, I think that if I would say "my pronouns are he/him", people would think that's a weird thing to say and would think something like "oh, it's one of those woke people".

Where I live, the people that tell you about their pronouns are a minority, and they are usually people that need to tell you their pronouns to avoid confusion, or people that are particularly active in the "woke" community.

For 99% of the people you meet, it's fair to assume pronouns because it's obvious. And if your assumption was wrong, they can just tell you. No need to get butthurt over it.

Saying "my pronouns are..." without anyone asking for them is just ridiculous in my opinion. Like, what are people going to say 5 years from now? "My name is ...., my pronouns are ..., my ethnicity is ..., I live in ... and my favorite color is ...."?

What a dumb way to start a conversation. You know, the whole point of a conversation is that you ask and answer questions, or share things you like to share. We don't need to share everything in the introduction sentence, including pronouns. It's just pointless most of the time.

To be clear: if anyone wants to tell me their pronouns right away, all good, I won't dislike you for it. Just don't expect the same from me, just assume my pronouns and I'll be happy to correct you on the off chance that you're wrong.

[-] daan@lemmy.vanoverloop.xyz 13 points 10 months ago

CIQ is the company behind Rocky and they joined. I believe Alma is taking a slightly different approach than the others, hence they did not join.

[-] daan@lemmy.vanoverloop.xyz 21 points 1 year ago

Like $XDG_CONFIG_HOME and $XDG_DATA_HOME?

[-] daan@lemmy.vanoverloop.xyz 29 points 1 year ago

Is it just me or do large portions of this article feel AI-generated?

[-] daan@lemmy.vanoverloop.xyz 21 points 1 year ago

The fact that W3C defines the protocol doesn't stop large companies from doing whatever they want. Have a look at Google: their web browser has become so widely adopted that Google effectively controls what is considered part of the spec, not W3C.

If Meta's platform grows to become the biggest fediverse project, they will control the spec and others will either have to follow, or risk dropping out. This is just like how Firefox is forced to follow Google to ensure all websites work properly on Firefox, even if these sites don't comply with the spec.

[-] daan@lemmy.vanoverloop.xyz 13 points 1 year ago

After lots of distro-hopping, using arch for many years, I switched to Fedora and never looked back. I just want things to work, and fixing little issues gets boring really quickly, so I stopped using arch.

[-] daan@lemmy.vanoverloop.xyz 27 points 1 year ago

The cloudflare protection of their main instance is breaking federation right now, which is a bit annoying. I hope this will be resolved soon.

[-] daan@lemmy.vanoverloop.xyz 25 points 1 year ago

Specifically for lemmy: https://browse.feddit.de/, to find more smaller communities you like and help them grow.

[-] daan@lemmy.vanoverloop.xyz 17 points 1 year ago

Why the hate against lemmygrad? Just let them have their opinion. Have they done anything wrong to you personally? No? Then let them be. At least this is how I like to think about it.

Also, are we really going to start witch hunts for instances that federate with an instance that you don't like?

[-] daan@lemmy.vanoverloop.xyz 12 points 1 year ago

I don't think his political views are relevant in the first place. As long as he's a great developer and nice to work with, there is no problem for Lemmy and its users.

People really need to stop doing this thing where they disagree with something someone says just to discredit everything else that person does.

[-] daan@lemmy.vanoverloop.xyz 11 points 1 year ago

I'll blacklist them on my instance.

[-] daan@lemmy.vanoverloop.xyz 13 points 1 year ago

Fedora, because it just works and it ships recent software versions.

I also like Fedora Silverblue, and projects like ublue are very interesting in my opinion.

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