And for some reason the prisons are full…

That why there is the advice to “only do one crime at a time” I guess!

Most youths who are involved in crime carry a knife for protection. This means that if the police want to arrest one of them, for whatever reason, they can because they will likely find a knife on them.

The cells are probably crammed full of cosplayers, student protestors and journalists. Remember that massive ruckus and manhunt for thee guy who was wandering around in a gimp suit making people feel uncomfortable?

“Our prisons have never been safer!”

It’s OK though because as soon as the prison guards turn their backs on him he will immediately escape on an eight inch paraglider.

Good feckin point!

Wtf. Just looked this up and you’re right. It seems like literally everything contains either toxic chemicals or plastics, unless you made it yourself without them.

Works and is clever, but down voted because morbid.

I find that switching to my ‘subscribed’ feed and sorting by newest weeds out 95% of the doom and outrage. Most single-topic communities are really positive. You very occasionally get a itinerant doomer or naysayer coming out of the woodwork and being rabidly cynical, but in something like a gardening or saxophone community their comment always just looks silly and out of place and is usually easy to ignore.

You make some great points. I’ve seen this in action locally - it’s a tiny minority who actually make the effort to change things and they have an amazing success rate, in part because they are often unopposed. The barrier to entry is deceptively low. I think I’m going to read that book.

lemmy world announced they’ll be funded by USA feds

What?

What would be the benefits of this over Nextcloud, apart from not having to set it up?

I reckon the police wanted to bust him for some other reason. The Master Sword was just their excuse.

They depict children, and lots of people online think that automatically has to mean something nefarious.

I want a decent new art platform as much as everyone else but I’m not moving my entire portfolio over to a new service that, honestly, looks like it’ll be dead in 6-12 months.

It might be worth self-hosting your own website.

Hopefully Pixelfed will continue to grow and various clients can be developed which cater to different types of users. For now I believe @[email protected] is the man to address our suggestions to. I’d imagine he’s also quite busy though…

Not if the earth is flat!

Yes. It’s worth noting though that as a Pixelfed user you will only see posts with images. In fact a lot of my favourite art that I see is coming from mastodon.art, which is (as the name suggests) a Mastodon instance!

I only have experience with pixelfed.social which is my home instance. I think you’ll be fine with any general purpose instance though. They should all federate well, so your home feed will be made up of accounts and hashtags that you follow which can come from anywhere on the fediverse, not just your own instance. It’s well worth exploring and getting a nice feed for yourself based on people and styles/mediums/subjects that you like. It’s also good to comment on others work and keep the encouraging/supportive vibe happening :)

OK, those are good points. It would be great if that kind of functionality can get incorporated into it at some point.