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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 28-Nov-2024 18:59:50 JST Aral Balkan

   If the worst possible people are the ones winning at your game, your game fucking sucks.

   #capitalism

   • Ramin Honary (ramin_hal9001@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Thursday, 28-Nov-2024 19:09:34 JST Ramin Honary

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     If the worst possible people are the ones winning at your game, your game fucking sucks.

     @aral when I was growing up in the US, you won’t believe how many times I heard a conversation that concluded with something like this:

     “Say what you want about how much of an asshole he is, he is still rich, and you at least gotta respect that.”

     I used to accept that as “wisdom,” now I see this as the product of decades of concerted capitalist propaganda. Unfortunately, I would guess the majority of Americans still accept that as wisdom.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 28-Nov-2024 19:10:10 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Ramin Honary

     @ramin_hal9001 Sadly, I’m not surprised.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 29-Nov-2024 20:01:03 JST Aral Balkan

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     • nonlinear
     • Ramin Honary

     @ramin_hal9001 @nonlinear Markdown support can be a fully client-side enhancement. In fact, it was exactly that sort of progressive enhancement/organic feature development/paving of the cow paths that I was suggesting as TwitterFormats decades ago. Good to see the approach being adopted by some fediverse apps.

   • Ramin Honary (ramin_hal9001@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Friday, 29-Nov-2024 20:01:04 JST Ramin Honary

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     • nonlinear

     Wait can you guys block-quote?

     @nonlinear yes, the instance I am on supports Markdown formatting. I don’t fully understand how it works, but apparently the Mastodon (and Akkoma, in my case) server supports limited formatting in the post body with a subset of HTML which is simple enough to be automatically converted to plain text for clients that do not support formatted text.

     If you configure your user settings to allow Markdown formatting, the server will automatically translate your posts to HTML and store that on the server. My previous Mastodon instance supported raw HTML formatting, but it would strip away unsupported HTML tags. My current instance only allows plaintext or Markdown.

     @aral

   • nonlinear (nonlinear@social.praxis.nyc)'s status on Friday, 29-Nov-2024 20:01:05 JST nonlinear

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     • Ramin Honary

     @ramin_hal9001 @aral Wait can you guys *block-quote*?