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yildolw

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You are confusing things. IAC shut down both CollegeHumor and Drawfee in 2020. Sam Reich bought CollegeHumor and resurrected it as Dropout. Drawfee also went indie. “These guys” haven’t been involved since 2020

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How do you feel about “demonizing” or “dehumanizing”? Same concept, older lingo

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We do have the additional context outside the story that under the interim CEO Mozilla has made two other unpopular decisions:

  • Bought an AdTech company
  • Added AI features to Firefox
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The Fediverse has 1 million active users. Threads has 130 million active users. This is not an EEE play because a 100% successful EEE play would amount to increasing the Threads userbase by less than 1%. Meta is doing this for non-EEE reasons.

One possible non-EEE reason would be to have plausible deniability for monopolistic practices. If they make a show of interoperating with irrelevant nobodies like us, they can pretend to be a nice tech company rather than a mean anti-competitive monopoly.

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Now would be a great time for the federal NDP to have a leadership race. A year until next election. Singh is past his prime. Get some free press.

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Would Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and arguably Afghanistan be the fault of Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist colonialism?

Stalin made homosexuality illegal in the Soviet Union and continued the Russian colonization of central Asia. Brezhnev invaded Afghanistan. The laws weren’t repealed until Russia seceded from the Soviet Union in 1991

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It was occupied by Italy in WW2, which is outside the “Scramble for Africa” period but is an occupation by a European power

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If I wanted to talk to a Bluesky user, I’d be on Bluesky. Block and defederate

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