Grail

I personally enjoy Rimu Atkinson’s blog on the development of Piefed: https://join.piefed.social/blog/

Probably the best intro is the first post: https://join.piefed.social/2023/11/18/subscribe-and-unsubscribe-to-a-community-follow/

Yeah, it’s federated. That means users, communities, posts, and votes are shared. For example, I’m sending you this comment from My piefed site, and you can see it fine.

I’ve made a Lemmy instance and a PieFed instance, and I’ll say PieFed is easier to set up and uses less computational resources. If you want the easy mode, make a piefed instance.

I got a lot of joy from r/fifthglyph, in a long past hour. It was so much fun to find ways to say things, without that ubiquitous symbol.

Meat and other animal products have this cultural symbolism in the modern west of being linked to strength, masculinity, and wealth. Take for example the fact that white people have higher rates of lactose tolerance. For white supremacists, animal milk has become a “scientific” excuse for the supremacy of the “white race”. Fascist pseudoscientists write books about how Europeans conquered the world because they drink animal milk.

There’s this guy on tiktok called Raw Egg Nationalist, who advocates for an all meat diet. His reasoning is that climate change is going to create a lot of refugees, so white people need to eat lots of protein to prepare for the upcoming race war.

So you can add the carnivore diet to the list of weird online cultural trends connected to white supremacy.

Fuck Anthropic. They buy used books and put them through a shredder to train Claude.

If we burn the planet down, koalas will go extinct too. They’re innocent.

A lot of unis give students free AI access. Companies like Microsoft bundle Copilot into their education packages, so that students will graduate without learning to write essays on their own. Then they’ll be working, paying professionals who can’t go without AI because they didn’t actually earn their degrees. It’s in the business model.