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WARNING To the People of Earth: Teenagers exist. BEWARE

the standard basically just looks better

Place your bets everyone, has OP ever looked at either standard?

Looking at the Firefox Librewolf “print preview” it does actually look quite easy to read.

I wonder how many of my stupid comments on lemmy have been converted to PDF, printed on paper, and stored in a filing cabinet.

The only way to win the game of “Bot, or troll?” is not to play and hit the block button instead. Which I will go ahead and do now.

Pointing people to reddit, as if that’s an alternative. When a VPN provider makes such bad choices it’s tempting to imagine that the decision was influenced by somebody who wants to secretly get the message out that the company is no longer to be trusted, because it’s hard to see any other logic in it.

The centralized social media have demonstrated again and again that content moderation at scale can never work well the way they do it. They are a menace to society. The problem isn’t that Elon Musk is the wrong person to decide how a billion people should be allowed to talk to each other and which of their voices should be amplified, it’s that nobody should ever have that power.

A diverse network of smaller instances where each is free to take its own approach is the future of social media, if it has a future.

Okay Google, if you can guess my age accurately to within a decade based on my youtube viewing history and whatever other data you can get, I will give you a cookie.

I like blobcats

Donkeys reportedly hauling massive supply of sticks and stones towards the front lines

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(momentary confusion as I wonder why I’d want to switch from the X Window System to Mastodon)

There are a few specific people on fedi who do give me hope.

Today’s top news story: Imminent Death of Fediverse Predicted

It’s centralized, it doesn’t officially allow 3rd-party clients, it requires a phone number, and the desktop app kinda sucks. I use it anyway, but it could be better.

Akkoma and probably others like Misskey I assume do have follower-only posts and they do get used by some people who like to communicate with a small group and otherwise keep things private.

Okay fediverse, you’ve been told. It has been requested that everyone on the whole network stops using #hashtags because one lemmy.world user finds it personally inconvenient the way their instance’s software deals with it. I expect everyone to comply immediately.

I have no idea about how people in the UK should react and I’m not a lawyer, but my understanding of it is that if no one involved in running your site is British, it’s not hosted in the UK, and you don’t have any kind of business relationships with people in the UK, you absolutely should not worry about it or take any action at all beyond making sure you don’t sign any deals or offer any products for sale in that country.

They cannot legally or practically do anything to you beyond perhaps blocking access to your site somehow I suppose, and in the extremely unlikely event that they tried something crazy you’d be an international cause celebre with plenty of legal support available. Doing their dirty work for them by trying to block British IP addresses seems inadvisable.

The dotcom bubble was based on technology that had already been around for ten years. The AI bubble is based on technology that doesn’t exist yet.

It turns out that “critical” here means argumentative, entirely one-sided, and full of spurious objections.

Just surf along the information superhighway and keep an eye out for tasty links. You’ll soon get the hang of it. Here’s one place to start: https://mastodon.social/public/remote