What a spez move. Pre-emptively de-federating is just a bad move, no other way to look at it. They’re a very diverse group and generally much kinder than most lemmy users. At the very least you should’ve tested federation for a day or two to see how the interactions play out. But anybody here can go over there and see for themself how nice they can be even when disagreeing, which they do a lot among themselves.

Also where in the Code of Conduct does it say the only ideology allowed is liberalism? Going the way of Reddit with vague justifications and arbitrary decisions will make the administration a lot of profit some day, but there’s a reason people left that one.

quad core laptops with IPS screens that can run up to 16 GB are like $50 nowadays. throw it out.

Feel free to send me the $50 bucks and I’ll buy one. I still won’t throw out perfectly functional hardware. Until then I’ll make use of what I have, thank you very much.

Didn’t realise I walked into comedy central.

By “stable” I mean that for the majority of the time I will not have any electricity or internet. My use case explicitly requires battery and offline software.

I’ll be away from both stable electricity and stable internet so I can’t just ditch a battery.