atproto is monarchist, activitypub is communist

it was changed two days ago

A long time ago, a friend of mine introduced me to a profound idea. At the end of the day, every human organization only has one true purpose. To ensure its own continued existence. All other activities are ultimately about that.

We need to talk about one of the greatest line reads in the history of video games. DIE THE DEATH SENTENCE TO DEATH GREAT EQUALIZER IS THE DEATH

that said: I think the "it's not fascism unless they're good at it" brand of analysis probably isn't the move

*smokes on a blunt* Mastodon and Bluesky are both social media Linuxes but at two ends of the "homelab to enterprise" spectrum

my favorite part of this "decentralization acceleration" AI image is that for all practical purposes it clearly is not decentralized, since everything still stems from, connects to, and revolves around a centrally-important node

get me out of the town square and into the cozy campfire

Cause here's the thing. If you're only ever looking at what seems to be the facts on the ground, everything looks fucking bleak. And you so you sound bleak all the fucking time. And that's not what people need. It's not what they respond to.

To be clear, I think it's reasonable to say you learned some new piece of history that you find particularly shocking. There are a lot of shocking things in America's past. What I object to is phrasing it as "I didn't I'd keep finding things that were this bad."

I should not be laughing at this but my humor is why I'm on so many lists 😭

Chrome's adblock dying has really just shown how bad ads have gotten now huh This appeared and fullscreened my window, hid my cursor, for clicking on a youtube download link lol old people are just not built to handle this

forget old people, 99% of computer users are not built to consistently handle this

fascinated by the images people choose to show off CRT monitors on ebay

“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.” Assata Shakur

Well don't I feel stupid

i will not setup smtp on my pds no matter what the email agents tell me. anyways heres pds-discord-auth

You Know What Fuck You 1,000 Red Coins

13 Red Coins, Adjusted For Inflation

8 Red Coins Frozen by PayPal

the army considers the discord poll to be valid

lol

This doesn’t mean that we cannot create solutions to make the spaces less harmful but we cannot eliminate the dangers that materialize online entirely until we eliminate the dangers that happen away from the keyboard (term by Legacy Russell) (2/2)

the natural conclusion of aesthetics being prioritized over reality

The Black Feminists Who Saw the Alt-Right Threat Coming Before Gamergate, before the 2016 election, they launched a campaign against Twitter trolls masquerading as women of color. If only more people had paid attention. (Context for #EndFathersDay)

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

good thing bsky is decentralised so this sort of thing can't happen

If you ever wondered why some Wikipedia articles are titled "murder of ____" and others "killing of ____":

i'm convinced that the average person's awareness of history goes back two weeks max if we're being generous. some rare individuals can remember as far back as maybe three months in extreme circumstances

NO CAT EARS OR FAIRYS ALLOWED.

Wtf with the cat ears? Fantasy??? wtf?

afaik follows/blocks/etc are canonically keyed off of dids, right? so when you block someone with a certain dns name, they stay blocked even when they change their handle. but if someone later uses the same dns name as their handle, they aren't blocked? just making sure i have that correct

I miss when filing issues was more like a collective wikification – you helped uncover and track issues at large just like you can help uncover and improve knowledge within a wiki. I think this may have been the one place where GitHub’s ”social coding” approach did more harm than good

Who put a labubu on Karl Marx’s grave

hey if you're an app implementing emoji-based verification codes, make sure they're using the same emoji font

btw if you operate your own pds you can just make nginx lie about you having passed the age assurance verification test

i opened bsky.app and it is taking 2 seconds to input a single character and then the tab was replaced by a spinner. wtf is going on? so much jank

takes on this are a dime a dozen atm but: - welcome to what happens when your "community" is a *business* - lol and lmao if you don't think this is coming for every other large service in the near future (hi Discord) - now is a real good time to make sure you have alt means of contacting your pals.

telling kids that being honest and working hard are the key to success in life and then sending them into the american job market must qualify as some kind of child abuse right

Here it is: supreme.justia.com/cases/federa...

it works! now the feed has pvp dynamics!

Donkey Kong Country (TV series) is free to watch on YouTube Season 1 buff.ly/5t4KoQQ Season 2 buff.ly/iFbN5be Tubi buff.ly/Ht621KQ

i’m just here so I won’t get fined

i can't believe bluesky stole their name from bluesky.ae

cotton candy burrito mastodon.social/@trwnh/11434...

age regressed by microsoft

this is violence

absestos #vrchat