You create an account on an instance/server. Your account is on piefed.social, which is a PieFed instance. However, you should really think of this as your piefed.social account, not as your PieFed account. You cannot login into PieFed with your Mastodon account, because you don't have a "Mastodon Account"; You may have an account on a particular Mastodon instance (or server, whatever they call it), which allows you to login to that particular instance.
Mastodon, PieFed, Lemmy, etc. are more like the filter through which you interact with the Fediverse. To a Mastodon server, every post is independent, for example. On Lemmy, you may post to a community, but on Mastodon a community is just a group that boosts posts made to it.
The way I do it, and the way I think is best, is that you should pick a way you prefer to interact with the Fediverse. Do you prefer threads like Lemmy or PieFed? Do you prefer single posts to the void like Mastodon? I don't really know how Bookwyrm works, exactly, but it's also just a way to interpret the same underlying stuff so that it can be understood as books and book ratings and reviews.
There may be features missing or not implemented here and there, depending on the instance or the software.
I only really use my Lemmy account (the one I'm using right now), because I prefer threads. Some people even call Lemmy and PieFed (and some others) the Threadiverse.
There's no wrong way. Just have fun. But be warned that any account on a different server is exactly that: a different account! And each account lets you interact with a server, meaning that you see the Fediverse thru the eyes of the software it's running, be it Mastodon or Lemmy or whatever, and everything will be filtered that way.
I wasn't aware of all that o.o I was aware of January 6th, which was very absurd, actually. I had almost completely forgotten about it, though.
the democrats are as weak and unpopular as ever, unwilling to mount the type of popular reform, and build and run a political machine, that could take it from them, even as their succession fight might be the last chance before the fix is in too tight.
There's this thing people say, you know: "the other party" is evil, "my party" is stupid. Not saying you're a Democrat, necessarily, though I suppose you may not really have a choice in the matter, considering you seem to want to avoid the Republican takeover. Reasonably.
I mean, what can I say?! Support the policies you believe in and support the candidates that espouse them; Firmly reject and argue against the policies that will harm the country. Is there anything else?
Well, yeah, but the EU could go for retaliatory tariffs again, which could put huge economic pressure on the US, hopefully forcing Trump's hand into honouring the deal.
I'm not American, and frankly American politics aren't exactly what I'm most worried about or interested in at any given time... Sorry for my ignorance.
All I've heard about is that there was some gerrymandering thing going on with trying to make new red districts, namely in Texas, while the Democrats retaliated by trying to make some new blue districts, namely in California. Surely that's not what you mean? Seems to be that they're trying to stack the horrendous system Americans have in their favour, but I wouldn't call that rigging elections. Do you maybe mean the thing with voter registration and needing an ID to vote?
If there is some rigging going on, I would actually be interested to know LOL I remember hearing about the voting machines being rigged, but I thought that was a Republican conspiracy.
Well, I don't know your life, so I can't really say... If that is the case, however, that's truly a shame.
In my case, it's hard to say. At my age, my parents were living extremely frugally, though, admittedly, so am I. I have some better things lined up, though, working on my education and such... I hope to surpass my parents in terms of life quality, eventually.
Thanks for sharing. I liked this video quite a bit.
I do think some sort of feudalism is approaching, but I don't think it'll be quite as described (90% serfs and such).
I believe there is simply too much equality, right now, to the point that a lot of what could happen to lead to such a system won't happen for fear of immense social repercussions.
The Western world is still mostly democracies. People will vote for extremists in extreme situations, and extremists will act in extreme ways, including causing wars and destruction for a lot of people. Stability and normalcy won't be attained by techno-feudalism. It will be a constant fight. The middle-class is already too large to allow large swaths of itself to be reduced to serfs.
That being said, I don't necessarily doubt that it will continue to shrink, slowly, and that the lower class will continue to be squeezed for all they're worth.
Related: what "subscriptions" (recurring payments) do you pay for?
I pay rent (which includes water, internet, and light bills), a public transport pass (not strictly necessary, but it makes it more affordable), university tuition (PhD), and food. My parents actually cover my cheap phone plan (it's like 5€/month, I think). They also cover half my rent, because they have the money and insisted on it. They're both public school teachers, by the way, in case reading this you're thinking that I'm some sort of lordling.
Cancer is when a cell's DNA is damaged and it starts behaving badly. Monstrously huge generalization, but that part is right. But the key is that the damaged DNA results in uncontrolled cell division (mitosis)! That's what causes cancerous tumors. It's not really that the cells stop doing their job, though they do stop doing their job, but it's mostly that they grow uncontrollably and destroy the surrounding tissue.
That being said, yes, we could fix some genes. However, cancer is hugely complex. It's not really one thing, even; It's just what we call the outcome of a very unfortunate sequence of DNA damage. Some specific kinds of cancer, maybe, could be helped with this.
Maybe we can help prevent cancer by changing some genes, in particular cases, even. But curing cancer, at least thru CRISPR gene editing, doesn't seem, to me, to be viable.
Oh, and about the telomeres! That's not all that aging is, for one, and the way it works isn't even totally clear. It's just not that simple!
I hate birthdays so I hoped to do nothing. My parents didn't quite respect that, but they didn't do much, thankfully... Just a small "party", nothing very memorable, thankfully.
Good luck with the embodiment of greed over there lol And happy birthday!
You don't sound like an idiot at all.
You create an account on an instance/server. Your account is on piefed.social, which is a PieFed instance. However, you should really think of this as your piefed.social account, not as your PieFed account. You cannot login into PieFed with your Mastodon account, because you don't have a "Mastodon Account"; You may have an account on a particular Mastodon instance (or server, whatever they call it), which allows you to login to that particular instance.
Mastodon, PieFed, Lemmy, etc. are more like the filter through which you interact with the Fediverse. To a Mastodon server, every post is independent, for example. On Lemmy, you may post to a community, but on Mastodon a community is just a group that boosts posts made to it.
The way I do it, and the way I think is best, is that you should pick a way you prefer to interact with the Fediverse. Do you prefer threads like Lemmy or PieFed? Do you prefer single posts to the void like Mastodon? I don't really know how Bookwyrm works, exactly, but it's also just a way to interpret the same underlying stuff so that it can be understood as books and book ratings and reviews.
There may be features missing or not implemented here and there, depending on the instance or the software.
I only really use my Lemmy account (the one I'm using right now), because I prefer threads. Some people even call Lemmy and PieFed (and some others) the Threadiverse.
There's no wrong way. Just have fun. But be warned that any account on a different server is exactly that: a different account! And each account lets you interact with a server, meaning that you see the Fediverse thru the eyes of the software it's running, be it Mastodon or Lemmy or whatever, and everything will be filtered that way.
That's my understanding of it, anyway.