letraset
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- Comment on Liz Truss to launch ‘uncensored’ social network to counter mainstream media 1 day ago:
I’m not sure she cheated on her husband and then got divorced. But I could be wrong. Apart from that, she seems to be only one post away from going on about space lasers.
- Comment on Liz Truss to launch ‘uncensored’ social network to counter mainstream media 1 day ago:
Nice catch. I missed that impossible sentence in my first reading. Makes about as much sense as she normally does.
- Comment on Liz Truss to launch ‘uncensored’ social network to counter mainstream media 1 day ago:
I do remember her subpar performance as PM, but I don’t remember her being so redpilled and Trumpian. Did the lettuce experience do this to her, make her stop full of grievances?
- Comment on Liz Truss to launch ‘uncensored’ social network to counter mainstream media 1 day ago:
I’m almost entirely convinced this is it.
- Submitted 2 days ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 37 comments
- Comment on X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research 1 week ago:
I legitimately believe that if ActivityPub services had gained traction before the dotcom bubble, they would be the default today, and twitter/bsky/reddit etc would have to go above and beyond to convince people to used their siloed platforms.
Strong agree. Email is prolific because it is the proto social network infrastructure, and it has interoperability at its core. You have someones email, you can write them. Theoretically it doesn’t matter what email you send it from, you can send an email to any address in the world. There are limits to this these days, because of things like DMARC, DKIM, and SPF, which have been introduced because of shortcomings in the open protocols, but in its purest form, there are no barriers.
If ActivityPub had been around at the same time as email, it would be considered infrastructure the same way email is today. The online world would look different, but don’t neglect that industries are still finding ways to make money from email. There might not have been platforms like the social media silos we have today, but there might be an industry trying to milk ActivityPub for money.
I’m hoping this is the phenomenon that is the best chance for the fediverse’s future, because every time one of the platforms dies off some small percentage of the userbase switches to a fediverse alternative. And a protocol won’t fail like a private service will. So over time, the more often private services fail, the more users find the fediverse, the larger it gets, and the more people notice that it’s the most dependable way to go. It might take 100 years for a critical mass of people to figure it out, but I think in the long term, the fediverse will eventually be seen as “old reliable”.
I too subscribe to this hope. I always end up writing emails to people I haven’t been in touch with for a long time, and aren’t sure about which phone number, social network, or physial address they are currently reachable on. Which reminded me of this post:
my-notes.dragas.net/2023/09/25/25-years-later/
Email just (still) works. Can’t ask for more than that.
- Comment on X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research 1 week ago:
Ah yes, to prove they drive traffic to places, they funnel all outgoing links through themselves for tracking.
- Comment on X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research 1 week ago:
It’s great that Bluesky is gaining traction, but how sure are we that it won’t turn to shit before other relays come online and make it actually decentralised?
- Comment on Meta confirms it is considering charging UK users for ad-free version 3 weeks ago:
A prime example of malicious compliance.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 8 comments
- Comment on Florida opens criminal investigation into Tate brothers 1 month ago:
Oh no, couldn’t have happened to a nicer pair of brothers.
- Submitted 1 month ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 12 comments
- Comment on Andrew and Tristan Tate leave Romania, sources tell BBC - live updates 1 month ago:
This has also been my speculation, but it seems there a civil lawsuit in the US, from a Floridian victim.
From the FT on the 17th of February (paywalled):
- Comment on Andrew and Tristan Tate leave Romania, sources tell BBC - live updates 1 month ago:
They are indeed wanted in the UK. I too don’t believe they will be extradited to the UK for those cases. Looks like the brothers got at least 4 years of freedom on American soil.
- Comment on Andrew and Tristan Tate leave Romania, sources tell BBC - live updates 1 month ago:
More context in this post which cites a Romanian source.
- Comment on Andrew and Tristan Tate leave Romania, sources tell BBC - live updates 1 month ago:
Maybe not Starmer related, just asshole related it seems. Sole sources saying their appeal was successful:
- Comment on Andrew and Tristan Tate leave Romania, sources tell BBC - live updates 1 month ago:
Is that a Trump bargaining chip before the talks with Starmer?
- Submitted 1 month ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 13 comments
- Comment on why do transphobes mention pedophiles/compare them to pedophiles when most trans people (as do most people) hate pedophiles? 1 month ago:
Thank you for your reply.
- Comment on why do transphobes mention pedophiles/compare them to pedophiles when most trans people (as do most people) hate pedophiles? 1 month ago:
What are MAPs? First time I’ve come across it.
- Comment on OpenAI board rejects Musk's $97.4 billion offer 1 month ago:
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- Comment on Starmer must protect elections from foreign interference, says watchdog | Party funding 3 months ago:
What voting system would be a better fit, for a better reflection of voter preference?
- Starmer must protect elections from foreign interference, says watchdog | Party fundingwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 3 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 6 comments
