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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Balatro is rated PEGI-18 and Among Us inspires disgruntled people with medical needs. What other video games have been secretly eroding the very fabric of American society?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for explaining!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Balatro is rated PEGI-18 and Among Us inspires disgruntled people with medical needs. What other video games have been secretly eroding the very fabric of American society?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not familiar with what is meant by Canadian tuxedo, so gambling with jeans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Balatro is rated PEGI-18 and Among Us inspires disgruntled people with medical needs. What other video games have been secretly eroding the very fabric of American society?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I Was A Teenage Exocolonist

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Balatro is rated PEGI-18 and Among Us inspires disgruntled people with medical needs. What other video games have been secretly eroding the very fabric of American society?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  (Jean Gambling)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thankfully both it and Siri can be completely disabled or just not even installed in the former’s case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blacksky Is Nothing Like Black Twitter—and It Doesn’t Need to Be⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem in many cases isn’t that they don’t literally see it but that they aren’t aware of what constitutes racism a lot of the time. That’s the primary issue here. That and they don’t listen to those that have to endure the harrasment, or don’t believe them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blacksky Is Nothing Like Black Twitter—and It Doesn’t Need to Be⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Though I’m not human, I’ve been part of many unpaid moderation teams and I agree. It should be paid and with breaks etc.

  Something which not afforded us when we tried to ask or push for it many times sadly and so it goes on federated networks, people can only get paid if those using the service pay them and many don’t, won’t or can’t.

  Thankfully the instances we are on people do support the mods, from what we are aware, but still, a lot more could be done if people could do these thinfs, fairly though not everyone can due to being poor, but some do help out.

  We don’t agree with your assertion that humans (and probably others) are inherently dicks, but they can certainly display horrible behaviour, yeah.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blacksky Is Nothing Like Black Twitter—and It Doesn’t Need to Be⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, it is a systemic problem in that society is racist, social media reflects that. It could be the one to change that in part if people cared enough to fix things both online and off. But they don’t, they’re so dedicated to upholding the structures of white supremacy and remaining willfully ignorant that they end up caring just about themselves.

  Having said that, whilst Bluesky may or may not care about moderation on a global level (I’ve heard mixed things), I think this kind of community building and user level block lists is a good thing, so it may work out for now.

  Like all commercial ventures into anything online I do expect it’ll become enshitified eventually, but for now may it long continue and hopefully drive the devs, moderators and actual users of the fediverse to care and introduce better moderation features or actually care about doing it and stopping the many white supremacists etc on the network through various means.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blacksky Is Nothing Like Black Twitter—and It Doesn’t Need to Be⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, they exist. Probably because a lot of the harrasment goes on in DMs or in followers only posts (or instances block them or they do dogwhistles etc).

  Yes, but people are, regardless, still awful and so it’s not a place me or many others would recommend precisely because not many care enough to do anything about it. Which is exactly why I try to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blacksky Is Nothing Like Black Twitter—and It Doesn’t Need to Be⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Mastodon was complicated

  and full of racists/white supremacists (still is).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Skyrim followers tier list, hope it's not too controversial xoxo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Skyrim followers tier list, hope it's not too controversial xoxo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What does pookiecoded mean?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Water + hot oil⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk what he’s talking about.

  Did you mean what she’s talking about? Her pronouns are in username.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anyone know any good android games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, I agree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anyone know any good android games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you look at who the creator of this and that thread was?

  Not intending to be mean or anything, just found it funny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Authorities urge U.S. citizens to use encrypted messaging apps to combat Chinese telco hackers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe that had improved recently, especially due to funding from the original creator of Twitter and Bluesky.

  Though in general yes, apps that are about ‘extreme’ privacy tend to be as they like to avoid the big corporate tech servers for notifications etc whenever possible and probably other things too meaning they have to use more power in order to get the same results as the ones that do use them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Itch.io was taken down by funko pop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  [Sarcasm] Yet ‘AI’ is the future and will solve everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone ready for this new IOS update?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, ready to disable it all the moment it restarts for the upgrade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do we think will be GoTY and which game do we think should be?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fallout London.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hot take⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Authorities urge U.S. citizens to use encrypted messaging apps to combat Chinese telco hackers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Matrix had a security vulnerability it knew about for years and did not fix until recently leaving many clients with broken encryption. Plus its flagship client clearly cares more about business interests than the common user.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Authorities urge U.S. citizens to use encrypted messaging apps to combat Chinese telco hackers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  XMPP is terrible for the average user, its encryption (OMEMO) in most clients is not the latest version (making it weak) of it and can be turned off, a bad thing for an encrypted messenger. Plus verification requires comparing a string of numbers in most cases, something most users do not want to do or would find it difficult to accurately.

  SimpleX Chat has not proven itself to be legal request resistant yet (they seem not to have any information on requests recieved) and does not have many audits. Plus it is very barebones and has bad UX until they fix these things it will not be attractive to most typical folks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify suddenly cut off app developers from a bunch of its data⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, we could all move to Funk Whale, however, finding/sharing music on that would be if not illegal then highly contencious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Next Generation Internet (NGI) projects adopt platforms Mastodon and PeerTube as main communication channels⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are Dendrite and/or Conduit feature complete/comparable yet?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Next Generation Internet (NGI) projects adopt platforms Mastodon and PeerTube as main communication channels⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem with XMPP is its encryption UX is dreadful, Matrix got it right with comparing emoji to verify. Also Matrix, despite everything does try to keep its encryption up to date and so all the clients try to follow suit, the same cannot be said for xmpp

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Next Generation Internet (NGI) projects adopt platforms Mastodon and PeerTube as main communication channels⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Problem is most of the clients don’t have support for it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First UK arrest made over filming of women on nights out without consent⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for letting us know!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First UK arrest made over filming of women on nights out without consent⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in no way a fan of cops or the ‘legal’ system and its only recourse being arresting/charging people.

  However, I am glad it’s being recognised as an actual problem, just hoping something actually useful, sustainable can come out of it, such as teaching folks this is a bad idea and getting them to think about why.

  I doubt it will as punishment is not shown to necessarily make people think about the patriarchy or feelings of entitlement to people’s bodies, but it might stop this behaviour and might be talked about inadvertently leading to that outcome, we can only hope.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#StopKillingGames Update: Initiative reaches seven country requirement⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This comes off as racist.

  I know what you were going for but please try not to use names people actually have as if their names are just jokes.