Huzzah! I know a bunch of geeks and radicals, so maybe that’s why.

Yeah, that’s pretty much it. “Mutual aid” is meant to be distinct from “charity” which has a different kind of implication. Mutual aid is more about “we help each other”. Charity can absolutely be organized, but tends to be more “structured” than mutual aid efforts.

I have at least 3 friends IRL that are on Lemmy. One of them I got to join, and two are friends I met doing mutual aid and other organizing projects. Later found out they’re on here.

Gab’s exclusively for nazis.

I use KeepassDX. Love it. I really like biometric unlock on apps, but I don’t use it to unlock my phone.

I am choosing to believe you are saying all this ironically.

I just took a look at your participation in the hexbear thread you are referencing, and I’m confused about the issue. Seems like you got mostly thoughtful and positive replies. There was some .world bashing at the end including the bit you quoted. It seems strange to me that rather than ask questions about hexbear to the actual users there, you came over here to ask on an instance that has daily threads complaining about leftist instances.

Kent State was national guard. I would have brought up something like drone strikes or the infamous “collateral murder”.

TIL that neoliberals are part of “the Left”.

Leftist infighting is real, but this ain’t it.

I’m sorry, but I can never be “infighting” with someone who is supporting an ongoing genocide. That’s always going to be outfighting.

This blog also has a good post from last year discussing the shortcomings of XMPP and Matrix relative to Signal.

I can relate to what I’m hearing from you. All I can say is that you’ll just have to bite the bullet and have the awkward situation now or have it be twice as bad later.

I guess that’s the idea. I’m just saying it’s normal for most people not to need lifelong advanced math skills. It’s also normal for people to not like or be good at math. I really found geometry to be intuitive, but algebra was opaque.

Instantly doubles the sandwich supply.

I use a “work profile” on my android phone to install another instance of Signal. I registered it with an internet phone number. Not an ideal solution, but does what I need.

Online search? That’s how I first got plugged into some here. Many of them maintain presence on FB, IG etc as a pragmatic matter of outreach, but organize themselves over Signal and offline.

That’s awesome! I’m in a bunch of local Signal groups for my community. I’m about to move away though, and already anticipating a struggle to build the same type of culture where I’m headed.

I don’t remember very much of “Of Mice and Men”, and I don’t remember very much of the math I learned in school either. I’m not mad about having learned/read that stuff, but I also don’t feel bad about not remembering/using it since.

Except when it’s Wu-Tang!