RIP your inbox lol. Like others have said though whatever you choose test it out booting off a USB first, fwiw I’d vote try FedoraKDE, but more importantly I’ll add this:

Whatever you choose it will be different and it will be an adjustment in some capacity, and that’s ok! And don’t be scared of the terminal, always keep back ups just in case but you really can’t fuck up tooooo bad unless you’re using sudo and then just be real careful. Watch a few youtube videos on something like “linux terminal basics” or “bash basics” and follow along like you’re taking a class, it’ll really help you get familiar with it. It’s a great thing to know how to use, these days if I know how to do it through the terminal I usually will instead of puttering through a gui honestly.

Thanks lol me too. (Fine with the right drugs though, for the record. Weed is ok in my book!)

Been raped twice by two different women, I’d still be fine with it. If I let my experiences with women (that + 3 serious relationships ended in them cheating) cloud my judgement of the entire gender I’d be an “incel,” so I don’t, I give each individual a fair shake because my past trauma isn’t their fault.

Hope that helps! I’ve lost patience with you, you’re arguing in bad faith now calling someone saying “smile more” literal rape, invalidating what happened to me (actual rape) with that horse shit is a bad look but you do you. OH I almost missed the part where you straight up say “rape isn’t as bad when women do it” holy shit I don’t like you.

You don’t see all the furry porn, extra long Kanji posts, B-Movies, witches, hackers, and cultists?

I’m used to not being believed, at least you didn’t say the classic “you must’ve liked it due to (insert natural biological response to stimulus)” like most people do though I guess. Good for you.

But no, I’m sharing about how I feel in response to you telling me how I “would” feel, which you don’t get to do, yet you continue above telling me what I feel. How about you stick to you and let others have their own feelings on what happens to them?

I figure I’d be mostly ok, the email I use for things I’d need to save is stored locally by thunderbird so I could still access those emails, the only problem would be changing the email on a few services.

The hardest part would be replacing that email address. That said, anyone have a rec for a good email service, preferably free, with IMAP/POP3 for use with tbird, that is at least ostensibly private (I know, email is inherently not private, but ykwim), and doesn’t just get shoved in spam on gmail (since that’s what everyone else has)? Riseup would be cool for instance but it’s impossible to get an invite. I’m thinking I may just pay mailbox.org but I’d prefer not to. Unwilling to self host, evidentially it’s easy to fuck your shit up by self hosting email.

Sometimes you can reach out to support and get them to fix it, but not always. Worth a shot, if you can remember the services that need to be changed lol.

Been raped twice by two different women, I’d still be fine with it. If I let my experiences with women (that + 3 serious relationships ended in them cheating) cloud my judgement of the entire gender I’d be an “incel,” so I don’t, I give each individual a fair shake because my past trauma isn’t their fault.

Tbh she’s probably right, I have resting bitch face at best or maybe smol depression at worst lol, it would probably help me develop new interpersonal relationships now that all my friends are dead (mostly OD) or moved (because they didn’t want to OD.)

REAL FUN being the only person you know who avoided heroin/fent!

Goodbye

He’s calling them rapists because they have the email domain rape.lol, and fascists because they have hitler.rocks. The other side says “They were edgy 4channers 10yr ago when they started.”

My argument is “well you make it so hard to get a riseup acct which is the leftist equivalent, cock.li is the closest many of us could get.”

Fedora KDE here.

Slackware.

Ah, spoom True Sounds Of Liberty eh?

T.S.O.L fucking rules.

Sure, but if they don’t know about it it isn’t influencing their choice. What I’m assuming is they’ll sign up for the one I tell them about and later if they have a reason to switch, like they find out “oh my instance blocks something I want to see” they’ll have learned enough to fix that on their own by virtue of using the thing teaching you about the thing. You seem to be ascribing some permanence to this choice, where there is none, you can simply make a new account, or another account and keep both, or 500 accounts if you’re a weirdo, it literally does not matter, there’s account migration. Furthermore there’s guides if you’re really struggling with the concept that pop up when you google “what is mastodon.” Like sure, my grandma couldn’t turn the computer on so she probably couldn’t figure it out, but it’s really not as hard as people make it out to be.

Tbf, some people want that. I prefer my instance which federates with anyone willing making you choose what to block yourself (aside from the reactionary instances that don’t like that we don’t block their enemy instances by default so they block ours, of course), but not just anyone can join my instance, so I can’t recommend that unless they qualify. If you have a better general instance I can recommend instead of .social I’ll definitely check it out!

Which was itself riffing on The Minority Report by Phillip K. Dick from 1956 .

Well I’d just tell them if I was recommending it to a friend or making a post like “follow me to mastodon” or whatever, and someone curious enough to find mastodon without a recommendation oughta be able to figure out an instance to join, mastodon.social is the first result when searching “mastodon” so it’ll probably get them just based on that.

Tbf the internet is entirely comprised of like 6 websites if you ask the average Joe, and I’m damn inclined to agree as someone who remembers webrings fondly and misses geocities (it’s like the bell curve meme lol, and btw yes I know about neocities I’m just sleeping on it).

But I agree, if they can email they can mastodon, it’s the same shit.