Imagine writing that completely unironically.
PeriodicallyPedantic
Yeah, like I said, that doesn't sound healthy
Dude, idk.
I was just like "you seem to be telling the dude that he isn't using tankie correctly, but that's not how language works"
And then you replied that I'm wrong, and seemed to be making an appeal that the negative connotations had to do with the invalidity of the definition.
Our wires are so crossed at this point that a random car in 1960 Spain just got spontaneously hotwired.
Yup.
You say that like it's mutually exclusive. Nobody gets to choose how other people use language. Definitions are whatever people agree that they are, even if you're not one of the people who agrees with it.
You can dislike that definition of tankie all you want, the fact that they used it in this way and that you understood it means that it was used correctly.
The evolution of language may hurt people, but denying the reality of evolving language hurts nobody but yourself. The etymology and history is good to know (and the meme relies on it), but the new definition is still a correct alternate definition.
This is the reality of language.
Both definitions are now correct. The change isn't a fight you can win.
I think a lot of people here aren't looking at this in the right way:
They don't have to accept accounts for student or let students interact. This can be an alternative system for disseminating announcements with optional mechanisms for feedback. All they need to do is federate and then any of their students subscribe.
I've been wishing that my my governments (at all levels) would do this so I can get notified of things like changes to bus schedules or closures of highways and shit.
~~Anyone~~ anything else
TIFTFY
I see you've employed the "I am rubber you are glue" tactic. Great job 👍
What an absolutely braindead reply.
Mastodon had a bad experience for that person.
Blue sky didn't.
Their experience wasn't unique.
End of story.
You're doing mental gymnastics to misinterpret their argument. Nobody said they want centralized social media you absolute lemon. They want a user experience that doesn't suck. Right now, blue sky provides that while mastodon doesn't.
"Oh but bsky's federation doesn't solve Mastodon's problem" they don't have to solve Mastodon's problem.
Elitist neckbeards like you are the reason the fediverse isn't fun.
Toxic people can be blocked by your instance, or you can move to an instance that doesn't tolerate that behavior
You can make that exact same argument about dropping bombs.
When countries are threatened and dropping bombs relieves that threat instead of increases it, then they do. It's just that right now violent escalation doesn't benefit China, so it stays in the realm of sabre rattling