Ramin Honary

Exactly. I’m an atheist and electronics geek, but I am torn between Radio Shack and Jesus. I bet Jesus could effectively organize a world-wide general strike that completely overthrows capitalism and replaces it with a dictatorship of the proletariat so fast it would make Jeff Bezos’ head spin and pop off.

As long as I am fantasizing, I’ll bet if Radio Shack came back, they would start selling Framework laptops to ordinary consumers and kick-start a market of DIY mobile computing platforms from laptops to cell phones to TV sets to home rack-mount servers running fediverse services all built with standardized parts and overthrow the consumerist electronic appliance market.

Its the same as how the vast majority of the US citizens hate both main political parties, but the majority also says “I wont vote for a third party because they could never win.”

For my part, I am here to stay on Lemmy, and will be deleting my Reddit accounts. The quality of the content on Reddit has gotten pretty bad this past year or so. Too many ads, too many suggestions for SubReddits that I am not interested in – but their algorithm “thinks” I would be interested on account of the fact that this SubReddit they keep recommending to me has a million subscribers and would likely keep me engaged with their platform.

I joined Mastodon last year and I love it so much, I swear I will never participate in a corporate-owned social network ever again. Mastodon has mostly satisfied my need for surrogate human interaction, but now that everyone is abandoning Reddit for Lemmy, I think I will join Lemmy too.

I am here to stay.