I fucking hate that this is a sensible question to ask every time now

Does that mean you never see the riots with burning cars that seem to happen there every few years?

Until some other fuckwit buys it out (my pessimism says they’ll never get around to making it truly federated).

I liked the old aibnb one.

Microsoft went from “boring with a bit of attitude” to just plain boring

Except eBay, that was always trash.

JaGUar

The conversation here is about mastodon

The vast majority of users are on general instances without demands like that. If you don’t want to join an exclusive club, just pick a sever that is not intended to be an exclusive club (I.e. nearly any of the big ones).

If bluesky ever becomes actually federated, won’t it have the same problem?

It’s America

Wat

I didn’t know what it was, so I looked it up. Their description is here:

https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2024/08/22/ppa-update/

It sounds interesting… It also sounds like it will fail, because Mozilla seems to think that trackers are primarily interested in collecting ad stats, and that targeted advertising is less critical, but I think in reality it’s the other way around, and advertisers won’t accept such a limited solution.

Rueben Bolling’s comics are nearly always just as on-point as this. Well worth following.

Source?

I’m middle aged and I’m still only half way through that saga

SSH/SFTP?