Notices by josemanuel@qoto.org

@kaia Have you watched _Hereditary_?

@newt While rms sports certain problematic views on sex (mostly out of ignorance, I assume), I see that a lot of his quotes there are grossly and deliberately misinterpreted by people with very poor reading comprehension skills.

Why do they hate him so much, anyway? Why do they find him so dangerous?

@sun

@fluidlogic To me, it was the MSX2, but I’m biased, because that’s what I grew up with. That said, I could compare it with the Spectrums and the Amstrad CPC, and I still stand by my Philips VG-8235.

Dear @freemo, meet my friend @Computer:

Thrown exceptions are just socially acceptable gotos.

#programming

@vaartis Thanks for the spoiler. I wanted to read the novel eventually.

@vaartis Is it good? Is it worth it?

@vaartis It’s ok. I prefer Russian books to movies in general.

@vaartis I do have Anna Karenina in Russian, but I can’t speak a word of it, so… Actually, maybe it was Ukrainian and I could never tell. (It was given to me by an Ukrainian friend many years ago.)

If I ever visit Russia, I’ll buy everything Dostoievski and some Chekhov. If you have more recommendations, please let me know.

@genmaicha QOTO’s creator, @freemo, is looking for programmers. If you know Java, you probably should get in touch with him.

@coolboymew Is it just me or there is a trend lately of drawing female characters that look like boys wearing wigs?

@coolboymew A few days ago, you complained about some character design and, when I saw the screenshots you posted, I thought the same thing.

@coolboymew https://shitposter.club/objects/92c338b7-3995-4b87-97e8-9af04665b858

@freemo I used ‘believing’ on purpose. It’s some sort of irrational, almost pathological, quasi-religious and childish notion. Their heads probably work like this: “If I can’t see them, that means I’ve defeated them. I’m a hero(ine). The world is a safer place thanks to me.”

@bonifartius

@freemo For some reason, believing they had the last word makes them think they won the discussion. That also explains the reaction of the covid dude earlier today.

@bonifartius

@lina I wasn’t really bothered. The point of my OP was to counter the narrative that the Fediverse was a better platform just because. (Remember the “Twitter without the nazis” slogan?) No, a platform is as good as the people who use it, and people on Fedi are not exactly the cream of the crop, me included.

@lina I can handle it just fine. It’s them who block me.

@lina

as for the goals, well, i don’t think fedi has any goals here, it’s just a crazy network full of crazies

That’s my point: there’s no algorithm psyopping them to be dickheads. They just are.

@lina When I say the platform, I don’t mean the moderation policy. Depending on the instance you’re in, you may or may not say that.

What I mean by “the platform” is the platform’s goals. When people moved from Twitter in 2022, they came here saying how awful it was that the platform gave prominence and visibility to certain accounts because confrontation was good for it.

I called that bullshit because 1) if something made me angry or depressed, I wouldn’t be interacting with it, and that lack of interaction is bad for business. And 2) most platforms allow one to curate their experience, Twitter included. If you see stuff that makes you angry and you feel the need to respond and escalate, that’s on you.

@kaia They usually block me first. It’s usually the kind of people who, when faced with polite disagreement, reply with an insult, then block and subtoot.

In the rare cases when they don’t block me, I usually mute them (with or without mentions, depending on how annoying they are).