the fediverse is tolerant

LOL no, it isn’t.

Send Shepard Commander.

One could argue the overwhelming majority of users is on mastodon.social.

I’m not.

A brand has (finally) died.

that it knows about.

TIL

Could you link or explain where you got this information?

Common sense. The instance admin deletes the instance (or your posts) 'cos the coffee was bad this morning… there goes “your property”.
Obviously orders of magnitude better than commercial social media but it’s no silver bullet either.
There, 3 lines.

Too lazy to bother with proper research, but considering how big these companies are, asking your favorite LLM How many people work at Meta and Amazon combined? will yield about 1.5M people (+/- the usual yearly thousands of layofss/new hires).

Lack of search is my biggest gripe with Mastodon.

I follow hashtags, it’s how i discover interesting content for me. I only use the search function to follow specific accounts.

we are all owners of it ourselves.

Not unless you run your own instance you aren’t.

Surprised pikachu face.

Cloudflare, Netflix, Microsoft, OpenAI as speakers? Plus a bunch of politicians?

Maybe icinga?

perfect mathematical harmony = engineered, the aliens did it, obviously

What are you on about? 225 is not a leap year.

True, although it may also be “good things” done by person do not outweigh “bad thing” done by person. I’m sure there’s a name for that.
Like human experimentation. Yes, bad, shouldn’t be done, outright illegal, immoral, inhumane, but has been done. Should we discard the scientific results?

1. to do things the way i feel is correct and complete
2. to do things the way management wants

iintrovert who learns to overcome their shyness

I tend to distinguish between the two.
Shy: someone who fears social interactions.
Introvert: someone who doesn’t need (as much) social interactions, but doesn’t fear them.

Masochism.

Edit after reading all that: i like computers in general and to program, been doing it since high-school. I just like it, maybe it’s the puzzle solving or that warm fuzzy feeling of finally solving a bug (and closing 3214 tabs in the browser). It’s also fun to see your software in use in real life by the “common people” (i work with POS software) and being able to point and say I did that. (without actually doing so for fear of stoning).

As for the social aspect: there is good software, you’re on lemmy, checkout other fediverse networks like mastodon or pixelfed, they’re all way friendlier than commercial socia… i’ll stop the pitch, i assume you know this by now. Most FOSS software tends to be “good” as well.

As for everything else i’m not a therapist and don’t know you so i won’t even try.

Pixelfed is a federated image-sharing network.