to quote pulp fiction, personality goes a long way.

what happens when you dont have personality to make up the difference? you just need to learn to be happy with yourself.

honestly you should start with being happy with yourself which helps with the confidence to demonstrate a good personality… then you might win the relationship lottery… might.

it takes a village… weve lost this ideal somewhere along the way.

as social creatures its been proven that continual human contact can help or prevent a metric fuckton of negative consequences.

zero. it would require 2/3rds of the senate and that will not happen. they barely have the house.

i like when harry met sally because it hits this topic head-on

they do federate with others though… so not stand-alone as op is describing

people that have more money than they could ever spend trying to accumulate more money

dont forget to checkout mbin. its slightly less fugly than lemmy with access to all the same content/functionality and more.

ex. https://moist.catsweat.com/

the fediverse is largely public. so i would only put here public info. ergo, i dont give a shit what the public does with it.

the follow-up is also a great read

https://dustycloud.org/blog/re-re-bluesky-decentralization/

tldr;

bluesky is neither federating nor decentralized, but is a great twitter replacement (not that theres anything wrong with that)

e. also, the longer it exists, the less incentive they have for ever federating or decentralizing. so it will for, all intents and purposes, never do those things regardless of what the board that runs it professes.

how about having to glue the bottom on hundreds of mice so school kids dont steal/throw them at each other.

there is a critical ‘relay’ component that only they control. so you can setup your own ‘node’, but only connected to their instance.

only a single instance of the relay exists and they are not releasing that code and a few other pieces. it federates only with itself.