realitista @ realitista @lemm.ee

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We never really left the 1800's, did we?

I should have known it would take less than a day for this new world leader to dash my hope for him.

As much as I would have liked to see The guarantee was far from iron clad. I believe the only security guarantee was this one:

"Seek immediate Security Councilaction to provide assistance to the signatory if they "should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used".

Via Wikipedia

This only works if you are the more powerful one in the negotiation.

It's possible from the command line. And how I will do this when I'm eventually forced to.

I use them. I use platforms more that have them. I leave platforms that don't.

But to each their own I guess.

Bluesky's main feed is totally algorithm free, it's just the people you follow's posts in chronological order, same as mastodon.

Starter kits are optional, but they allow you to get started in hours rather than months. For me, they made the difference between a vibrant and interesting feed well tailored towards my interests, and a very sparse feed that I didn't use on Mastodon. For me they were the difference between a useful social network and a non-useful one.

Thanks for the update. Yes the recommended feed is personalized. It's optional. The main feed has no algorithm, just who you follow.

Keyword blocking is a bit more sophisticated on Bluesky I think as they have a crowdsourced tagging system which allows you to opt in an out also of tagged words regardless of whether they appear in the body of the post.

As far as I can tell, the advantages of Mastodon over Bluesky are:

• Well implemented federation

Lemmy is still my favorite, I was never a huge fan of the Twitter model, but I enjoy taking part in the destruction of X.

Yeah I'd prefer Mastodon to implement all these features and win, but I understand why it's not winning ATM.

There is at least some (admittedly subpar) federation possible. So if the need is great enough, someone may take up the challenge.

I'm on both and Mastodon is missing (at least in any easy to use way) most of the features that make Bluesky such a good destination:

• instant add subscribe lists
• subscribable block lists
• custom feeds/subscribable algorithms
• keyword/topic blocks
• nuclear block where you never see the blocked person again
• optional discover feed
• DM preferences

All these things (and more I'm sure I'm forgetting), make Bluesky very quick to get started with and very powerful for honing your feeds to be exactly how you want and free of harassment and trolling.

I am still trying with Mastodon, but it's really slow going and I can fully understand why people wouldn't bother. After a year I am way behind where I was in a week with Bluesky.

Expect to see a lot more of this from The Fanta Menace's "Peace Plans"

I can always bulk download whatever I want on the high seas.

I'm not sure the cartels are that concerned with PR.

Yes they have nothing to gain from not doing that at the moment.

I think Trump will manage to push Europe into China's arms well within the next 4 years at the rate he's going. If Europe can get China to back Ukraine I think that's all it would take at this time.

Still better than normal corn on pizza

I think some of it has been actively suppressed in the USA