Stick with something popular. People like to argue about distros, but beyond their package manager and some settings, it’s the same thing under the hood (not saying these difference are nothing, but still). For a beginner, or really for anyone just looking to use their system instead of tinkering with it endlessly, a popular, well supported distribution will do the job.

Ubuntu fits that bill, although they made some very weird decisions recently, so I’d suggest starting with Mint if you’re new to this. Most everything should work out of the box if you have common hardware, and there’s a decent community around in case something goes wrong.

I’d also advise jumping to anything too new, flashy, or promising stuff that should really, really not be distribution dependant. My position on things is that if there’s a common tool that’s available everywhere to do something, and some distributions decides to make “their own” which does the same thing but is very specific, that’s just wasting time. Hence the disdain for raw ubuntu, among other.

You should check. I’ve been surprised by the amount of “suggested accounts” on bluesky that were people I lost track of when quitting twitter.

So true. Two years ago I still used twitter for nsfw content, but even that got weird (and really suspicious sometimes).

This is why we can’t have nice things.

Sure, let’s say “things didn’t improve much” and “they’re actively trying to kill us” is the very exact same thing, and justify taking sides with the later.

As a dev I would try negative value in the custom field.

It sounds like you’re proud of your culture of not giving a crap about rules set to improve safety for everyone. On that account, I agree that we’ll never see eye to eye about this.

You’re not expected to break them. For your example, you’re not supposed to go over the speed limit. And it is, in fact, extremely easy to do so. Most people are fine with it. And, no, it’s not impossible to do so. There is nothing forcing you to go faster for little to no gain and increased risk for you and other.

You expecting to go over tells something about you.

The thing is, some people like proton. Or liked, if this keeps going. When you build a business on trust and you start flailing like a headless chicken, people gets wary.

It’s already permanent and nonstop. They’re known to ignore robots.txt, and remove user agent on detection.

And the goal is not only to prevent resource abuse, but break a predatory model.

But, feel free to continue gracefully doing nothing while other takes action, it’s bound to help eventually.

The good news is that this may cure my laziness. I’ve been preparing to leave most of google service for a while now.

At this point, beyond enduring, I’m afraid there is no “non violent” options. And to be clear, I don’t think non-violent options are going to improve anything, just that there’s not much else to do.

Not having to be available at the ready for people is great.

If you arrange for a call, through another asynchronous mechanism, then it’s fine. If you cold-call me to ask about the weather (or, more seriously, anything that could have been a text message), I’ll leave decapitated horse head in your fridge.

If someone doesn’t care about themselves, why would they care about other or littering.

That’s par for the course, but it’s hilarious that openai “we have to get copyrighted material for free because fuck you” is pulling that defense now.

Wow, look at the size of the tear this brings to my eye.

You’re nass.

Sure. Only problem is, it’s a people issue. Some people making ai generated content may be honest and willing to abide to such rule, but most are proud to not even read the rules and just blast shitty slop left and right. For this second category of people, when you point it to them, a very small percentage of them goes “oh, sorry”. The vast majority just keep posting until blocked.

Granted, this experience mostly stems from every media posting sites out there, so it may be a bit biased…

Most of the safeguards were removed in trump’s previous term, and now the way’s open.

Good luck.

Because there hasn’t been much billionaire behind bluesky for a long time now, and “spinning up a mastodon instance” is the exact reason the general people are avoiding mastodon in the first place.

The goal is to reach people, not to promote a pure solution that’s repulsive to the masses.

People go to the platform that’s easy, attractive and works, instead of the very beautiful, finely crafted, exquisite solution that requires days of reading followed by fiddling every other day to barely get the same immediate result, assorted with hidden surprises like hidden moderation and silent failure situation that leads to fragmentation of the whole network. What a surprise.

Also, “don’t get pedantic with me” does not sit well with the current goals of bluesky. Sure, right now, they focused on making something that works and is usable by everyone. Whoop fucking doo, that’s exactly what mastodon/lemmy/most activitypub services skipped. And that’s why the general public look at them with contempt. I can’t see the future (maybe you can, lucky you), but for now, bluesky works, and the plan they’re still following up to now is aimed toward a decentralized solution.