If you do stuff for profit and not for the people who need that stuff, well... You'll make some money. For a while. But nobody having to use the cheap knock-off shitty sub-par pseudo-stuff you provide will be happy about it. And people will let you know. By leaving your stuff as soon as someone else has cheaper stuff that's not a whole lot worse. But... If you're REALLY lucky you will convince SOME people that your expensively priced yet cheaply made shit is actually yummy chocolate instead. That's called "apple-ing" the competition. 🤷 #soapbox #economics

VCF East Livestream RANT!

https://makertube.net/w/5FQmWZNQY27YBKPKfR21uS

It really winds me up when a statement is made about "Americans" or "Brits" which equally applies to anyone regardless of nationality.

Why not use "people"?

I understand why [some] politicians use it as it rams home the group(s) they represent but when corporations or news outlets use it, it just feels like needless "othering" of people and suggests you don't care about them.

#soapbox #othering #exclusion #language

Dr. Abraham Low trains us that to know is to know when we don’t know - at times, perhaps often, we don’t really need to know

Earth is full of ppl in pain, stuck in the crazy of fear and anger. All human beans are subject to the possibilities of this reality. We are all biologically & physically affected as well as emotionally. Learning the ways we work & our world works will give us the best chance at self control, influence over our worlds, and positive productive lives

#SoapBox #LifeSkills

IDK warum das Symbol für "verifizierter Account" in der Kontenauswahl in #Soapbox angezeigt wird, aber dieses Flag an einem von 5 Konten zu haben, verwirrt ungemein.

Ich halte das viel zu schnell für einen Indikator für "das gerade aktive Konto".

Davon ab: Warum vergisst so viel #Fediverse-#Client-Software immer mal wieder angemeldete Konten? Soapbox kommt gerne völlig durcheinander bis man wieder alle neu-anmeldet und #Fedilab auch und ist dann vollkommen b0rken. (aber hey! Fedilab ist auch sonst überall kaputt - kein Verlust!)

Discovering the #fediverse gives me the same feelings #linux did years ago. The endless choice, excitement of discovery, clash of philosophies and a community.

I spent years #distrohopping from #ubuntu , #arch , #voidlinux , #nixos etc and then back to arch. Also spent a long time switching desktop environments and window managers like i3.

I started on #lemmy and #mastodon . What do I try next? #selfhost an #activitypub server? Which one?

😇

#akkoma #WriteFreely #Mitra #soapbox #misskey

Can we all agree that using 2 digits for month, day and year to save dates is dumb and people should be shamed for using this format?

What does 02/04/25 mean?

#SoapBox #Rant

@33c74427f3b2b73d5e38f3e6c991c122a55d204072356f71da49a0e209fb6940 @5f0a6c0c4ad5a0766a451b7b34ee8ae4c266a96779339f672f9a2d140c820c14 Well on my main (this acc) I usually use #Soapbox via fe.soapbox.pub so I think I see the latest changes here first as well. I thought about using it on my #Mastodon alt I use at work but I don’t believe that #Soapbox supports #Mastodon’s news feature yet.

#WritersCoffeeClub 1/7: What are your biggest hopes for the writing world in 2025?

that people can realize that for all the bad ai does it does good stuff as well though that may be the world as a whole but for writing specifically, don't shame people who use AI as a tool to help their writing be it grammer or proof reading or in other ways.
#Soapbox

Happy Boxing Day to all who celebrate!

And Happy Thorsday!

#AllCatsAreBeautiful #Thorsday #ThorToots #CatsOfMastodon #Catstodon #CatsOfFediverse #Cats #Cat #Caturday #BoxingDay #RagdollCats #USPS #SoapBox

Hope is earned. And it's a byproduct of taking actions that are risky to you, personally.

Stop "looking for hope" and start earning it.

#soapbox

Came back to the #soapbox front-end for this account. Really nice.

After several hours of witchcraft with nostr, eventually stuck on an incomprehensible error, when trying to authorize in the mastodon client via ditto.pub and gleasonator.dev, ended up with an error, and it's not clear what to do about it =(
#nostr #mastodon #soapbox #ditto #gleasonator

@MarianBWood @genchat@lor.sh @genchat@a.gup.pe #GenChat

Not to mention (I'm sure) "Line not traced" for daughters in the generations. #PetPeeve
They're just as related as the surname-bearing males. #Soapbox

Note to self and others: To allow a post made in a #Soapbox-FE #Pleroma-BE setup to use #Markdown, click on the button that has a tooltip which says "Post markdown disabled". The tooltiip should change from "disabled" to "enabled". Note: This seems counter-intuitive. I might change it for my instance.

This is a Markdown test. To test is always best.

Code in my abode
Doo-dah, doo-dah
This is a block of code
All the livelong day

A pair of backticks is used to insert this string as code.
To force a linebreak, end a line with two spaces.
Now we've put Markdown through its paces.
The rain in Spain requires no explain.
Markdown is useful is the refrain.