I know where it is!

You guys are going about this all wrong. All you gotta do is connect your smart tv to the internet. Don’t use pihole. Let your tv communicate exactly how it wants to. Then buy some DVDs of local indy pro wrestling. The kind where women staple each other with staple guns, and smash light tubes over each others heads and bleed profusely.

Now…why would you do this? Because advertisers HATE advertising with pro wrestling. They also have nothing TO advertise for women with bloody faces, and broken noses.

Let THAT data get back to them. Who’s going to advertise to the guy who watches pro-wrestling from a high school gym where women leave pools of blood on the ground??? If everyone did this, for 10 hours a day, advertisers would deem the American market not worth the money to advertise to.

I have one that you may not like, but fits your description.

I don’t know what wordpress is, so I would suggest just not bothering at all with whatever that is. Maybe use wordpad.

Man wants to watch some kinky shit.

I’m starting to think there’s a conspiracy theory spread by big grass, that encourages people to touch grass. This is because grass is now grown with AI, and needs to learn tactile touch senses.

And one day, Poison Ivy will come around, and use grass to kill all humans as revenge for global warming.

Who are these people who go to dollar tree to get laid??? I don’t even trust their refridgeratables!

Honestly surprised they didn’t have it already…

…wow. If you hadn’t pointed that out, I would have never even noticed that detail. My brain just saw that as a swastica.

One day…we’re going to observe the non-observable universe, and discover that it’s exactly like this universe, except it"s last week. And then we’ll do it again in a different direction, and it’ll be next week. And we’ll do it again, and again, and again, and again, and eventually figure out that everything we do, ever have done, or ever will do, only applies to THIS observable universe. And that we’re one of an uncountable number of universes. Each a slightly different time than ours.

And no, it’s not time travel. If you go to another universe, and kill Tom, then come back here, Tom is still alive. If you go back to that universe, Tom is still dead and you get arrested.

Me seeing the swastika in the preview image:

“Welp…guess I gotta wait for nobody to be around me before I look at THAT!!!”

Me after seeing it:

“Glad I waited until I was alone.”

Forgot he was christian. I always just thought of him as a great person.

Haven’t watched the simpsons in a while…did they do this?

checks notes

Oh. Well then. This may be a rare case where the simpsons DIDN’T do it. Real life did it first.

This is what I hate about religion. In concept it sounds great. A bunch of rules for how to live as a good person. Sounds great right?

Well the first rule of christianity is “Thou shalt not kill”.

And then you realize that the leading cause of murder on earth throughout all of history is…religious wars.

And it’s all downhill from there from a hyprcritical standpoint. Religion is used more as a tool to justify ones shitty behavior, rather than a guide to prevent it.

The only good christian I know of, is Ned Flanders, and he’s not a real person!

This just seems like something the game grumps would have inspired.

At least it’s not February 30th…

Wait, so skull and bones emojis are the same as laughing? How would anyone assosiate a skull and bones with comedy?

I assosiate them with pirates.

I’d rather see Mike Degrasse Tyson.

And I stand by it!

That’s not what was said though. I was saying that it was a PUBLIC forum. I’m not stating WHAT is being said. Merely that it’s being said in a public way.

I’ve come to the conclusion that it never will. Be happy with what it is. It’ll slowly grow for a few years, and slowly die at the same time.

What eventually will happen is the fediverse will be so niche that less than 1000 people will use it.

Which is sad because IF it had the userbase, it would last basically forever. Because it can scale, and adapt to a changing world. It can scale itself indefinately as long as there is interest. It has the basic foundation for being able to uproot corporate ownership elsewhere.

But the reason it never will is the same reason Linux never will be even in the same conversation as the dominant operating systems. It’s because it’s formed niche concepts which confuse the average user. I’ve been here 5 months, with more posts than most I come into contact with. Yet I still feel like I must not be getting something. It feels off.

It’s more than just decentralized. It’s fragmented. The people who write the code seem to think that the average person gives two shits about decentralized. They don’t. At all. If anything it’s a hinderence to them, because it makes things harder to understand.

And THATS the problem. If you call the average person “normies”, then you’re sending a clear line between them and you. As if they don’t belong.

The best way to attract “normies” is to make things easy. Painfully easy. Preschool levels of easy.

My niece has been using an iPad since she was like 2 years old. My sister, who bought the iPad has ZERO clue how to use it.

These are the people who live on this planet.

With both Linux and the fediverse, the same mentality from the creators seems to be in use. “If I had to deal with it being hard, so do you”. And that’s a deal breaker for the vast majority.

There needs to be a set of standards that ALL fediverse services and instances need to adhere to. It can still be defederated, but it should FEEL unified. That means one set of usernames. It means if you don’t like the instance you’re on, you can transfer your account. All your settings, all your post history, all your upvotes would come with you. When you’re signing up, you get the choice between the default behavior of random home instance. Which would place you on any random instance which accepts public resignation. OR you can choose any instance that will have you.

This would please the idea of no single instance growing too big. While also keeping individual public instances from clumping same minded people, which then introduces different instances all having different personalities. Ideally you want fediverse nuetrality. Just people, all people, on all machines.

But that’s why the fediverse won’t grow. SOMEONE will come along and say “Well it won’t work because…”

To which I say MAKE it work. Otherwise the fediverse won’t be attractive to average people. Google looked at linux and said “We’ll MAKE it work.” And today Android is the most widely used cell phone OS in the world. While traditional linux has less than 5% adoption rate.

Android is something you don’t need to explain. It doesn’t work like windows. So you can’t blame that. It had no preexisting muscle memory, so you can’t blame that. They just put it in peoples hands in 2009, and said “This is android. Use it.”

And people didn’t need to watch tutorial videos. They didn’t need to learn new things. They just removedd it up, knowing nothing about what a smart phone even was. In those days touch screens were even a novel new concept. And people just got it. They understood right from the start how it worked.

That’s what the fediverse needs. Simplicity that doesn’t need explaining, and cross adoption. So if you get a Lemmy account, it makes sense to get a pixelfed account instead of an Instgram.

But thats not what the developers of these systems are doing. That’s not whats being worked on. It never will. Don’t look for it. What we have is what we got. We might get a slight increase in users, but not anything significant. Because there is no unity in the decentralization.