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Cake day: January 9th, 2026

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  • IDK if there’s a similar function on Lemmy, but at least on tumblr it’s recommended to tag things in full (eg: a post about eating disorders should be tagged eating disorder instead of ED or funky eating or something dumb like that) so that way filtering is easier (though, people who don’t want to see ED content would likely filter both, it’s good for when there isn’t a specific euphemism everyone uses (there are so many terms people use for rape on the internet it isn’t even funny))

















  • that attitude got us in this mess. The internet was free before corporate interests and the series of eternal september esque events happening from '98 onward caused largely by accessibility. Whatever we come up with needs to be difficult enough to access so corporations can’t turn everyone into “customers”. It doesn’t need to be so hard that only nerds can use, but it needs to have enough friction to require effort, thought, and interest of some kind to use


  • I’ve long since thought we should do this, and avoid the pitfalls the internet has fallen into. The entire stack needs to be foss and standardised, including hardware. It needs to be mostly incompatible with anything before it (Can still be standardised in a POSIX-like way but not “you can run your old windows program” compatible), and it needs to be designed democratically (and as much as people hate bureaucracy, designed by committee of academics and other not-for-profit organizations and individuals). We need what is essentially a less violent computer cultural revolution