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cowvin @ cowvin @kbin.social
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Michael Cohen suggests Trump’s mounting legal fees make him ‘thoroughly compromised’: ‘He is for sale’

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  • This drives me nuts. Why do his moronic cult followers keep giving him money? He's a "billionaire." LOL

    • Russia temporarily restricts access to the global network to test its 'sovereign Internet'

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  • From what I've read, the troll farms mostly operate funded by Russia but are physically located outside of Russia. For example, Macedonia had quite a few.

    • PSA: Mastodon is NOT Twitter and does not aim to be.

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  • I've been using Mastodon since Twitter was taken over by Musk, so I'm not a super long-term user, but I can give my perspective:

    Platforms like kbin / lemmy are more like "topic" communities. Like people on kbin create "magazines" and on lemmy they are actually "communities". From the user perspective, you can just look for these communities you are interested in and sign up to get updates from them.

    Platforms like Mastodon are more like you and specific people you like to see content from. So you find people you like to hear from and you follow them to get their updates. They may post on subjects you aren't interested in but oh well, that's up to them.

    Both formats can produce desirable, tight-knit communities, but they just use different structure. In my opinion, the kbin / lemmy style is more accessible in terms of finding people interested in a specific subject but feels less personal since you are just all there to talk about a specific subject. On Mastodon, when I find people posting content I like, I end up learning more about the random nonsense they are interested in. Like my feed there has a ton of moose pictures now because one person I followed likes to post pictures of moose. I don't mind seeing them, but I never expected to see so many moose.

    TLDR: Mastodon is about following people, kbin / lemmy are about following topics.

    • YSK The Backup 3-2-1 Rule

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  • It took me a while to accept cloud storage but I use it now. I backed up all of our family photos on Google photos.

    • I personally dont but why do you think ppl care so much about being downvoted on internet chat forums?

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  • Boosts are like retweets and Upvotes are like likes. On a threaded discussion format like this, boosts are kind of pointless, so nobody uses them.

    • How does everyone feel about Motorola phones?

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  • I had a couple of Motorola phones back in the day. Most recently I had a Moto Z2 Force, which had a shatterproof screen. I really liked that because around then I had my first kid and kids cause accidents all the time. LOL