MishMash

Stopped using Reddit as soon as it was clear that they were destroying 3rd party apps. Occasionally a search result brings me there, but I try to avoid the site all together where possible.

Haven’t tried it, but I think it’s definitely a novelty. It’s way smaller than my Miyoo Mini and my hands get cramped trying to play games on it for 15+ minute sessions.

The article linked doesn’t give a good recount of what transpired in the courtroom.

From the Axios article

But the judge’s questioning did reveal a disagreement over whether the agreement on the tax charges was linked to a gun charge against Biden. Prosecutors said it wasn’t; Biden’s team thought it was - and they repeatedly argued about it in open court.

Definitely a Trump appointed judge, but my understanding is this was more on the attorneys not understanding what the agreement was and the Judge discovering while doing their due diligence on the plea deal. Hunter’s attorneys are likely to blame here.

The only posts bots should be making is mega threads for events. Content posted should be organic from the user to drive discussion and not what some bot wants to repost from Reddit/hn/etc.

I’ve already blocked several bots to improve my experience, since my feed was being overrun by bots posting to various communities.

Thanks, I hate it! Should his name be PatrickThornButt?

“Thanks for nothing” LMAO This animation “project” cracks me up every time I come across it!

But that’s the risk taken when you create a protocol (ActivityPub) that anyone can tap into. You can’t create something that is open to everyone and then pitch a fit when entity you don’t like or agree decides to take advantage of it. Regardless of how big Threads get, it can’t supecede the ActivityPub protocol. If they decided to defederate down the road in attempts to extinguish the Fediverse, it won’t work, those users will still remain and Threads will go on it’s merry way. Meta can’t kill a W3C protocol.

I’m all for individual users blocking Threads if they’d like to, but I think it’s a terrible idea for instance admins to make that decision for all of their users.

Personally, I don’t see why this is so controversial. I view it as a way to follow the celebs and organizations that would rather use threads, but from the comfort of Mastodon that is outside of Meta’s ecosystem.

ActivityPub and the Fediverse is designed to for natural selection to take place. So let it. The users that want to be part of the Fediverse are already here and won’t don’t leave based on what Meta does with Threads. Threads utilizing ActivityPub in the future justifies the means of the Fediverse more than anything else IMO. I despise Meta as much as the next person, but this is not the end of the Fediverse as we know it.

Can’t wait to see him be trash on a new team. (Bitter Magic fan here)