Is this video enormous for anyone else?

It’s not Northern Europe either.

I think your point about moderation tooling is worth a bullet point on its own. I think more tools for users to stay safe and for moderators to keep their instance safe would go a long way, and that there are people who would be willing and able to donate their time implementing them.

Also, the current draft is still pretty focused on Mastodon. I think it’s worth talking more about how the problems (and solutions) are different on different platforms, or if not then talk about working on the problem for Mastodon/microblogging as opposed to “the fediverse.”

For many, Threads understandably felt like a breath of fresh air following the chaos that engulfed Twitter. Unlike the latter, Threads is not run by someone that I and many others find to be an exceptionally despicable human.

This is… telling.

Idk if downvotes don’t federate at all or if it’s homegrown jank, but I’ve never seen a downvote on another instance’s post.

It originally comes from false positives in computer vision afaik, where it makes some sense as the model is “seeing” things that aren’t in the image.

That’s actually a very common feature of cults, including a lot of the ones considered less extreme.

They said the same thing about stuffed crust pizza, and look where we are now.

I trusted you, and yet

Someone (maybe on Sneerclub?) once made the point that Hitler also produced the occasional bad art piece and extreme quantities of bullshit.

Flexo, shoot Flexo!

I didn’t know it wasn’t ironic until this comment

I’ve been wondering whether “a functional web search” is something that will increasingly become impossible as the death of the web progresses.

That would show a level of foresight we’ve never really seen from him, but ultimately no one knows.

Feels like I’m wearing nothing at all!

What have you heard?

Honestly, if you don’t look out for each other it seems to defeat the whole point of an organized protest. I can spread the word on my own in a safe space without fear of organized retaliatory violence.

Reminds me of the plastic placemats I ate off of as a toddler.

I definitely get the impulse! When there are a lot of them though, I feel like I spend as much time trying to understand the structure of the paragraph as I do reading it.

Has anyone else told you that the nested parentheses make your writing hard to read? Not a sarcastic or rhetorical question, I genuinely don’t know if I’m the only one who has a hard time with them, especially when you don’t close them lol