Mastodon social is a bit big tbh. Might be better recommending a smaller instance

I think with Linux and the Fediverse there is the same problem. “Just use Linux” okay then, which one? “Use Lemmy” “Use Mastodon” okay then, what instance?

It’s like Bluesky when Mastodon was sitting right there

I prefer end to end encrypted xmpp

The issue here isn’t DNS. The issue here is a large portion of the internet relying on a single data centre on the US East coast. Ideally, a lot of competing hosting companies would exist so if one goes down, it’s just one service and very few people notice.

Makes sense. DNS is quite a single point of failure

Darkness is the absence of light. He gave us free will to create sin. That’s like blaming a chicken farmer for making fentanyl because they sell eggs to the fentanyl makers who eat them for energy.

The Brick Bible was anti-christian propoganda

• vengeful god who

• commands genocide, demands worship, & creates evil
• punishes disobedience with curses, plagues, cuckoldry, cannibalism to eat your own children, slavery, infighting

Punishing evil- what’s the problem?

God doesn’t create evil- that’s the work of man. Man has free will. If you think God demanding worship is bad but also giving free will is bad, then you’re a contradiction.

• endorses genocide, killing innocents, slavery, selling daughters to sex slavery, rape, forced marriage of victim to their rapist,

Where?

inequality of women

In what way? If you think women and men having different roles is bad- that’s coming from your own opinion based on your culture. Would you judge an Arabian or African culture for believing in different roles? On what basis, apart from ingrained white supremacism?

• weird purity codes against pork & shellfish; mixing fibers, crops, animals; particular facial hairstyles; tattoos; body modification; etc.

That was to give the early israelites a national identity to be set apart. It’s irrelevant now as the purpose has been fulfilled.

• an afterlife that punishes nonbelievers who do good

No, there isn’t. Nobody does good, not even one.

This.

He’s too much of an american sellout. Musk could bend him over in an instant.

Funding a non political project when you disagree with the politics of the owners isn’t evil. I donate to the lemmy devs from time to time

Is there anything that’s better that you recommend?

Iirc, 2.0 is more of a symbolic release rather than any big changes

So it doesn’t apply to pilots then? Kinda just meetings?

Sounds like something to put on my list.

Charlie Kirk has said plenty of crap. There’s no need to misrepresent his views by selective editing.

That’s why I’m questioning why people are using this.

I think his point was that affirmative action would justify forms of racism in a way, and that was a bad thing, so he was calling it out

Isn’t the context of the whole black thing about DEI/Affirmative action though?