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  • I PMed someone on Twitter asking them to use Mastodon. As soon as I sent the PM, Twitter temporarily locked my account for "suspicious activity". I had to basically fill out a captcha to get my account back, but it didn't send the message.

    I rewrote it while being more careful with my phrasing and misspelling "mastedon" the second time.

  • This is fine due diligence. You just need to frame it as such instead of confidently saying these things happened.

    Skepticism is fine. Just assuming Reddit didn't do something this egregious (when they probably did) is poor form.

    This is not the first account I've heard of comments rising from the grave.

  • You can have pride in your country without being stupid about it.

    I'm proud to be an American. I'm not proud of everything America does.

    I'm proud that we were the first to land on the moon. I'm proud that we (eventually) helped win WWII over the Nazis. I'm proud of parts of our art and culture, Asimov, (early) Game of Thrones, most of the best games in the world.

    I also protested the Iraq war. I think our ultra-capitalist, corporate worshipping ways have been a negative influence on the world.

    I'm proud of Al Gore's call to action on climate change. I'm not proud we haven't done much about it.

    I'm proud we have the potential to get off planet, self-sustaining colonies going. I wish we'd push harder for it.

    You can find reasons to be proud of your country without endorsing everything they do.

  • Imagine having the easiest PR case of all time and somehow fucking it up this badly.

    How many people get the opportunity of "shut your mouth and you'll be lauded as a genius" (by people who don't know you well).

  • If I'm running lemmy.world, I wouldn't unsubscribe my people. I'd wait for that instance to move to a new domain and just find/replace in the database.

    Not every instance needs to migrate fmhy. Some can just leave that stuff broken. If the biggest half dozen instances migrate manually, fmhy would be able to keep most of their subscribers.

    I do wonder how often instances will keep looking for fmhy without intervention. Seems like tooling to migrate or discontinue an instance wouldn't be too difficult to build. At least it wouldn't if they didn't have a million other things on their plate.

    We could use a few less third party clients and more work on Lemmy itself. Unless you're going to bring over your userbase like RiF and Apollo can.

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  • The "third parties" that run as part of the two parties are smarter. Think Bernie or the Tea Party. Then you can vote for them in the primaries without being used as a tool by the other party.