A Salty Piece of Land by Jimmy Buffett… No, seriously.

He has the reputation as “the patron saint of drunken uncle beach bums”, but if you dig into his earlier catalogue, its rife with beautiful, lyrical storytelling songcraft. When you consider that, itss no suprise that he can write a decent book.

Yes I am a pirate, 200 years too late. The cannon don’t thunder, there’s nothing to plunder. I’m an over 40 victim of fate arriving too late.

Arriving too late.

Isn’t one of the main points of circlejerk lampooning reddit culture?

Lemmy is still pretty new and finding its identity. Give it time.

There are way more of us than there are of them. Let them scream impotently into the void and hear nothing come back.

Sure, maybe they will rally some numbers and try ti make noise, but ultimately they will just get bored and move on as things aren’t as monolithic here in the fediverse as they are on Reddit/Facebook/Twitter/etc.