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  • You go to @potus and follow him from there. :)

  • What a sad faith for a website named after the glorious Dodo.

  • As genocide per definition requires internt, the argument that "whoops, it was an accident!" might actually hold up in court.

    Of course it is not an accident, and central authorities (Netanyahu and his fascists) know exactly what they're doing. But this is what they're betting on, and time will tell if it works out for them.

    The genocide convention and the state of Israel were brothers in birth, both being responses to the atrocities of the Holocaust. This time around they will be reunited as enemies.

  • But Twitter used to have a monopoly, and it doesn't any more.

    I can now follow an official white house account directly from Kbin, whereas yesterday i would have had to sign up for either Twitter or Threads. That makes a difference. :)

  • That's @potus, for those on platforms that can view microblogs and that are not defederated from Threads.

    Remember that comments are not federated to/from threads yet. If I understood correctly, likes are federated.

  • I think we always assume our own communications are super clear, and we blame other people when they don't understand. That goes for flirting, but also everything else involving two or more people trying to communicate.

  • I was always terrible at picking up on hints, but even when I did get the hint I was generally either not interested in pursuing something, too cowardly to pursue it, or I had a preference to go about things a bit slower.

    Sometimes women can be attractive and hint a lot, but once you've burned yourself once or twice you realize it's better to take things slow than to risk getting involved with someone more crazy than you can handle.

    Amongst people I am closer to and actually like I am absolutely oblivious at times, but I would much rather err on the side of friendship.

  • Now I'm imagining "In the Hall of the Mountain King" playing increasingly fast and loud as the car sneaks up on a half deaf person.

  • Well, the ones that federate with Meta will still be federated with those who don't. So it's really no different from what the Fediverse is already: Fragmented by design.

  • Then again, why would a fan page want to open for contributions from outside of that fan page? Why would the Star Wars wiki federate edits with the Startrek wiki? On which page of the wiki would this make sense?

    I just don't get it.

  • I'm not sure I see the benefit of this. The point that Wikipedia might eventually become corrupted is made moot by the permissive licensing of the information there. The main challenge of the Wiki format is with fact checking and ensuring quality, which is only made more complicated by having a federated platform.

    ActivityPub is great for creating the social web. The added benefit of ActivityPub for non-social services is not obvious to me at all.

    That said, it's a cool proof of concept, and I'm sure it can be useful for certain types of federated content management - I just don't see how it could ever make sense as a Wikipedia alternative.

  • In addition to what's already mentioned in the comments, shout out to Inkscape. I guess it's similar to LibreOffice Draw, but I prefer the user experience of Inkscape. Probably more for single-page PDFs.

  • Unless, of course, one blocks them. It's not perfect of course, but I think federation brings about an unique opportunity to decide how many fools one is willing to suffer. And the tools will only get better with time. :)

  • They're also not holding anyone hostage. I can see how people are tired of the whole "if you don't like it, fork it" argument, but Kbin, mbin, and Piefed are all perfectly viable and interoperable alternatives that are available already.

  • Piefed has keyword filtering by default, as well as a lot of other neat features.

    It's very much based around subscribing to communities, so you won't see random things that are trending in random communities on the front page. For better or for worse I guess. I like it a lot, but I use it in combination with kbin where I'm more likely to stumble across random things (like this thread). :)

  • Super Mario. It's been milked for what it's worth and more, but whenever there's a new Mario game you just know it's going to be good.

  • Having pigs in the forest - to be hiding something.

    The tax man would go from farm to farm back in the old days and count the number of pigs. The farmers would be taxed accordingly. Naturally, when you heard the tax man was coming, you'd send some pigs into the forest so that you'd be taxed less. Norwegian. :)

  • I think people can be running pretty old versions of Android everywhere, assuming they don't change their phones every two years when support for their current device ends. They might still want to use an up-to-date web browser.

    There's just no reason we shouldn't expect 99% of new apps to run on older phones, and to hell with the entire industry for normalizing it.

  • I'm currently experimenting with Seppo for my website, which is... not ready yet. So maybe not the greatest suggestion. But development is happening fast, and I like it for a couple of reasons.

    1. It's incredibly easy to install. Just upload a file, set permissions, and open it in the browser. I'm somewhat incompetent, so I appreciate that even though deploying WordPress is obviously not very difficult either.
    2. Content is stored in basic XML files, making it easy to access with just basic PHP and an XSLT stylesheet. Basically it easy to incorporate posts into your site however you want it.
    3. It federates with ActivityPub, so people can follow your blog directly and get the content directly into their feeds.
    4. It's lightweight - very little bullshit.

    Basic functionality such as editing and deleting posts does not work yet, so it's absolutely not ready for primetime. But it's a project worth following, especially for those of us with an interest in the social web.

    Edit: I guess this would be more if you wanted to create a basic website yourself, and add a tool for content management to it. I read the post a bit too quickly - if you're not interested in writing some code there are much better options to go for out there. Seppo I think is nice for those who actively want to tinker a bit. :)

  • You cannot view microblog posts from Lemmy, so the only way you'll see anything from Threads is if a user from there responds to content posted to Lemmy or similar sites. Possibly also if they choose to tag a community in their post, but that seems unlikely for anything else than testing purposes.

    Same as Mastodon users, really.