Pete Hahnloser

Green energy/tech reporter, burner, raver, graphic artist and vandweller.

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Cake day: June 6th, 2023

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  • I arrived here in June 2023 as part of the interest in alternatives after the API changes were announced. We saw a spike in applications, so I expect that could happen again, though we’re not as major of an instance as we were back then. Lemmy.world will likely take the brunt of the influx, and as we’re not federated with them, the impact should be minimal.

    I’m still on Reddit for niche communities, but I use it very differently from 20 months ago. I’ve grown to enjoy a collective of self-selecting people who want something better than what Reddit offers, which is less and less by the month.











  • It’s somewhere in the mid-30s percentagewise in terms of people who actually want this. Millions just didn’t vote, and I’ll reluctantly admit to being one of them. But my vote doesn’t count at any level.

    City passes a reasonable law, Legislature gets called into special session to make said law illegal. Legislature is horrifically gerrymandered, which is particularly rich given they work here.

    We insanely don’t have term limits, so the same three old white dudes, one of whom – the fucking attorney general, who has been under federal indictment since I moved to Texas 10 years ago – are running the state as when I arrived. Texas does not hold elections so much as performative theatre.

    We needn’t go into the value of my vote at the federal level. You can’t just vote harder.