I suspect a lot of people use Facebook because they’ve always used Facebook - mostly older folks at this point - and a lot of the younger folks go there because their favorite association / football club / local restaurant / library are there too.

Meaning Facebook’s success today is mostly inertia: there’s no way any open-source replacement would pull a critical-enough mass of people away from Facebook to fight the inertia and enjoy any meaningful success. I’m pretty sure open-source developers know this and chose something fancier and more exciting to spend their time on.

Creating a Facebook replacement would be about as exciting as creating a Visual Basic replacement: millions of people still use VB, but nobody wants to touch a dying technology.

Facebook is like Myspace: it’s has-been. If I was a developers interested in contributing to the Fediverse, that’s the last social media I’d choose to spend my time reimplementing.

More proof that AI ruins everything - if it was needed.

That’s nice but…

Here’s my experience with my Linux phone (Ubuntu Touch on Fairphone 5): it’s fully functional and mostly usable as a full Android replacement. But the keyword here is “mostly”: The Openstore has native Linux replacement for half of the stuff I need (calls, SMS, emails, browser…) and for the rest, Waydroid picks up the slack (my Android-only banking app, Yubikey app…).

And then there’s stuff that’s neither available (or rather, working) in native Linux nor in Waydroid. And the killer app I desperately need, Signal, is in that group.

And that turns my promising Ubuntu Touch phone into a very fancy paperweight I mostly leave at home.

Here’s my prediction: the LibrePhone will be another paperweight for the same reason. And the sad thing is, it’s not for lack of trying on the part of the alternative OS and app makers, or lack of good will: they really do try their best. But it’s a chicken-and-egg problem: people don’t want to code for niche mobile OSes and stick to Android, and the niche mobile OSes remain niche as a result.

Unless the LibrePhone comes onto the market with a certain number of key apps that a vast majority of people will need, it’s doomed to fail right out of the gate.

It’s nice that she’s able to do that safely with her notoriety. Most unknown randos trying that stunt within earshot of a Gestapo ICE officier would end up disappeared in a concentration camp in Swaziland or something.

Same reason why gays aren’t called bumholesexuals.

That is one of the reasons. The other reason for me is, Wikipedia’s stated values are incompatible with staying in the US. So as long as they’re there, they don’t meet my expectations.

I’m not giving money to Wikipedia anymore until they move out of the United States personally.

I once posted a Youtube video from this man in my disability-focused community, in which he helped a lot of people get prostheses, because I thought was he did in his video was kind of cool.

I didn’t know him back then. The post and the video got backlash I didn’t expect.

Now I know him and I understand why.

The rich aren’t facing the law

The point I’m trying to make, as a regular Joe who isn’t mega-rich on the backs of everybody else, is that we’re better than that.

I’m only applying to Musk or Trump the standards I would like others to apply to me. If I was wrongly accused of being a pedo, however vile an individual I might otherwise be, I would like others to have the intellectual honesty to say they have no proof, even if they hate my guts.

Also, it reflects poorly on people who accuse others of things without proof. It certainly would feel good to go around saying Musk is a pedo because the man is so abhorrent. But it would also be wrong.

Until proof that he is a pedo comes out, that is. And boy do I wish proof comes out or what!

I honestly don’t think all people in the Epstein file are pedophiles, even if they went to his island, even if they went multiple times, anymore than all the people in Charlie Manson’s diary were loonies and serial killers. It does cast doubts on what they did or did not know, but it’s not proof of wrongdoing in and of itself.

What being mentioned in the Epstein file really means is that those are utterly disgusting people who are part of a disgusting elite. The friends they keep says a lot about them, and what that says isn’t good.

I do believe Trump is a pedophile however, even if he was only mentioned twice in the Epstein files - in the birthday card and in Epstein’s rolodex - because both clearly show that Epstein and he had something a lot more special, dark and unavowable in common that just partying together.

So no, absent more proof, I’ll assume Musk is “only” an obscenely wealthy, dangerous neo-Nazi with a ketamine addiction and a pedo daddy, but not a pedo himself. But I wouldn’t be surprised if the proof came out soon…

Well, not quite. I was more thinking of love, compassion, a loving family, a job I like… that sort of things 🙂

I’m rich in things that have no price.

ICE arrested me.

The Internet Watch Foundation said it had been alerted to a chatbot site that offered a number of scenarios including “child prostitute in a hotel”, “sex with your child while your wife is on holiday” and “child and teacher alone after class”.

Does it have to be this explicit? I’m sure asking for a Trump Enigma would yield plenty of pedo material.

Don’t beat yourself up. I don’t think coming out is ever easy. But if you have to, it’s much harder if you’re a minor and/or not mature and settled in life with nothing to prove to anybody.

If you’re in the US, bad timing.

being old sucks.

You’re not old 🙂

Look at it this way: at your age, it’ll be much easier to come out if you have to.

The bill to fund the Gestapo has been passed. Too late.

Trump’s tariffs are illegal though, and could / should / will be hopefully annuled.

That’s assuming there’s a democracy left functioning.

The United States.