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For news perhaps but it is a great front row seat to watch the right tear into each other.

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at least pens don’t have a proprietary algorithm by said nazi to make it not function when you want to write something that is not nazi propaganda

Don't give them ideas.

What about MySpace and Friends Reunited?

I think what will prove key is it federating beyond ActivityPub, as it works with Bluesky and diaspora.

It would see the return of a particularly cruel sport, so yes.

We're living in the Weaselverse. Nothing makes sense any more.

It's a funny old world where that elderly bag lady is actually making any sense.

See also: Trouble in Trumpworld over H-1B visas makes for strange bedfellows:

Steve Bannon, one of the architects of Trumpism, is one the most influential voices on the right. Bernie Sanders, the veteran US senator from Vermont, is among the leading figures on the progressive left. In these divided times, they have found common ground.

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Bannon, who still holds significant sway over Trump’s Make America Great Again (Maga) movement, has received support – albeit indirectly – from Sanders, who issued a lengthy critique of the H-1B status quo last week.

“Elon Musk is wrong,” the senator wrote. “The main function of the H-1B visa program is not to hire ‘the best and the brightest’, but rather to replace good-paying American jobs with low-wage indentured servants from abroad. The cheaper the labor they hire, the more money the billionaires make.”

“The moon is upside down in Australia”

That being said, I think it would be wise to reformulate and reduce down this post to a straightforward announcement:

Indeed. I know what they mean and why they arrived at this decision, and I agree with it, but I got bored half-way through.

My take is we Admins are just running the community for the users of it and Mods are caretakers of their communities. The idea that communities are a Mods personal fiefdom seems to be a holdover from Reddit and just seems like it can/will lead to power-tripping.

We've had an MP killed by a right wing nut job, so when the threats ramp up, they take it very seriously.

The new term is broligarch.

Facebook, Instagram and Threads are easy, I was never on Threads and largely used the others for following people and groups rather than actively posting.

WhatsApp is the tricky one as all my friends and family are on there and it is pretty important. I could get some people to move to Matrix but not everyone. Luckily, it's the one that is the most difficult to enshittify. Still...

That's just misdirection for all the other policy changes:

Meta on Tuesday announced sweeping changes to how it moderates content that will roll out in the coming months, including doing away with professional fact checking. But the company also quietly updated its hateful conduct policy, adding new types of content users can post on the platform, effective immediately.

Users are now allowed to, for example, refer to “women as household objects or property” or “transgender or non-binary people as ‘it,’” according to a section of the policy prohibiting such speech that was crossed out. A new section of the policy notes Meta will allow “allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality.”

Reminder to get off Facebook and Instagram

Most of us are already out or lurking because of family or some specific group they can't do without.

The trick will be getting those people off the platform so we can cut all cords.

That's where things get even more worrying.

As it stands, he still has to abide by EU and British laws but then there's this:

That suggests that social media laws could be part of the negotiation with other countries who don't want to get wrecked by tariffs.

As weakening those laws will lead to an increase in unchallenged far right posts, they could have knock on effects in elections. Trump will have seen how effective the changes at Xitter were for him, so spreading that to other social media platforms is already a win for him but being able to impact the political landscape elsewhere would be a bonus - France and German are having problems fending off the far right and if they gained control they'd be a lot more compliant to his demands which has knock-on effects for the EU and NATO.

A fuck of a lot of people and that's a worry.

You could try by suggesting that religious people are.delusional and see how it goes.