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Slackware was my first distro too, probably around 95 i think as I got a CDR copy from a friend in high school. It’s certainly not been my daily driver for that whole period, but I think I’ve probably at least had a linux system operational for nearly 30 years.

I’ve been using Windows since maybe 92 and MacOS since 86. I think Solaris is the only other OS I’ve used a significant amount. There days I’ve got a Macbook Pro for work, Windows 10 for photo editing and Kubuntu Jammy for everything else.

It is kind of a disaster for emergencies. Twitter is the defacto social network whenever any disaster strikes round here, the sheer volume of people, emergency services and the versatility of hashtags make it great for that.

I think it’s really a difference about whether you approach meat consumption as a moral issue or an environmental and social one.

I tend to agree with @Melpomene that any improvement is a good thing, maybe a better analogy would be in CO2 emissions. If we can convince 10% of people to bike to work one day a week then that’ll make meaningful difference, and it’s exactly the same from an emissions standpoint as taking X cars off the road.

Convincing someone, at least in the USA, to do without a car is fundamentally difficult, but convincing them to use it less is a significantly more accessible proposition.

Yeah absolutely, plus there’s lots of space for new entrants with different ideas for what a hybrid platform might look like. Some of them will surely be terrible but maybe there’s a magical do-it-all solution that we just haven’t imagined yet.

Not having to recreate the community from scratch makes it so much easier for technologies to emerge

I’m also not sure the interface is quite right. There are maybe use cases where subscribing to a lemmy community or kbin magazine might make sense in Mastodon, but most of the time that feels like a weird use-case. It feels like I want to subscribe to my own feed of people who reply to me, then I could reply to them from Mastodon (except there’s no real link between my identities, which is messy)