Illiterate Domine

Close, its Danny Devito smacking Nate Mooney with a 2x4.

Its a scene from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

The difference, as I understand it, is Beeper hasn’t claimed to not be doing that. Sunbird/Nothing touted E2EE and that was a lie.

That tends to be how things develop when you’re talking about systems. There’s not a cackling Bad Guy engineering these things, but a system of socioeconomic carrots and sticks that, right now, favor exploitation. Schools and education happen within that incentive structure so its natural that they would take on it’s characteristics.

Often, if an rss link isn’t on the page, there’s still a feed available. /rss and /feed are the most common places to find it.

DNS blocking (Pihole, adaware, nextdns…) Can take care of those ads on dedicated streaming boxes.

Santa?

We did a “bring your dog to work day” at my workplace and this is pretty much how it went. By noon, all the dog-bringers had taken their pets home.

If you have a phone number on the account, you can do an SMS reset. If not, I guess it’s “open a ticket with a throwaway” time.

I Nerevar would have guessed.

They’ve certainly become a lot more…

Nope, not gonna do it.

There are a few browser plugins that do this sort of thing for mastodon. I imagine some dev work would be needed to adapt them for the Threadiverse, but the concept is certainly out there.

I may already have that power. It’s hard to tell.

You don’t have to make a ton of accounts. An account on one instance can subscribe to and participate in communities on any other instances (provided it hasn’t been defederated by the instance admin).

Sure, but their algorithm in their app will be steering their users to content across the fediverse chosen specifically to engage enrage those users. Even if the broader fediverse isn’t being fed directly by their algorithm, the worst of the Threads user base will be showing up in our communities and comment sections.

Ubuntu at work, Arch at home. Having a linux machine at work has been an incredible upgrade.

Technically, no, but you may want to. All of these services are federated and interact with one another. Mastodon users can interact with pixelfed posts and lemmy communities and anything else in the Fediverse. In reality, though, these services, and their clients, are built for specific types of content. If you’re spending much time at all on those other Federated communities, the “round peg, square hole” nature of using a Reddit-like app to use a Twitter-like service (as an example) may start to chafe.