@lain@sun We have a pirate party affiliate in formation in the US. I wrote to the chairman that the foreign policy section on their website wasn't anti-empire enough and the way it was written it could be interpreted to justify the US invading and overthrowing other countries for having monopolies and strict copyright laws. He accused me of being a "Maga communist", so I lost interest
@icedquinn Nothing to do with wokery, a different flavor of noise altogether. Mullenweg is having a public meltdown and making up laws to extort money from a competitor and defaming them. Then he blocked all their customers (1 million+ sites) from connecting to WP API/repositories without any warning. He said "sue me" so they did.
The ridiclous part I think a lot of people in the WordPress ecosystem didn't notice until now is that this whole time 1 individual has had absolutely unlimited control of plugin, theme, and core management, of all WordPress installs, worldwide, regardless of where they are hosted, the power to unplug 43% of the web on whim, and now that's he's weaponized that he isn't trusted anymore, so FOSS foundations and/or web hosts will just have to build their own repositories which is how it should be anyway.
@icedquinn To paraphrase someone on social this morning, Mullenweg's behavior is actually so unhinged that's making a whole community of anti-establishment nerds side with Private Equity.
@Twig Not a fan of telegram but this dude needs to get out of France asap and probably give them that passport back as citizenship is clearly not doing him any favors. Flush it down the toilet
@vriska@adiz dude you seem to be involved in some misanthropic plot to give everyone psoriasis -- leaves are meant to be eaten on rare occasions to help digest a piece of meat that has become lodged in your stomach and that's it
@istvan@tk@sun I never used it at the time but now 20+ years later Luna has finally achieved a certain nostalgic appreciation from me. I experimented with Linux as a teenager around 2005 or so but didn't fully switch over until the Longhorn Letdown 2 or 3 years later
@TheEmpororHasNoClothes The larger Mastodon instances are full of and to some extent controlled by state actors and their warmongering useful idiots much like Twitter which they try to emulate as much as possible.
@TheEmpororHasNoClothesMastodon.social is one of the worst. I knew a guy on there about a year back (well before October 7) who got banned for anti-semtism for posting very mainstream Palestinian advocacy stuff on there.
These people are NATO jingoist blowhards to the right of Henry Kissinger on everything but gender