Ha ha ha, yeah, sure. Bluesky won’t defeat xitter, at best it’ll just be the “next thing” once xitter finally finishes getting rid of most of its users, which I guess will take more than 4 years from now.

How could those two suspiciously familiar faces with light violet and wine colored hairs possibly be Jessie and James from Team Rocket???

Congratulations on taking a fucking DECADE to realize what should’ve been FUCKING OBVIOUS from the start.

Me neither, but I guess once you start following enough people, or the platform has a large enough amount of people posting there, it becomes “interesting” by quantity, if not quality.

I think I tried twitter for a week back in 2018, didn’t “get it”, deleted the account. Tried Mastodon last year, enjoyed the much larger character limit, but didn’t feel like staying.

Extremely relevant video of Derren Brown, British illusionist: Miracles for Sale - It’s very easy to pretend you have some sort of miracle healing powers.

English exists to spite everyone

Side effect of being the bastard, often beaten child of French and Germanic languages

The whole idea of making phones disposable was stupid from the get go. I’d say that most mid-tier phones from 2017 should be perfectly serviceable for every stupid app being widely used nowadays. High end phones from 7, 8 years ago are still perfectly fine

I mean, even power gamers barely need all the power that the high end phones offer, because mobile games always aim for the low end, with few exceptions.

That fucking Apple started with the stupid shit of gluing the phone, and every other fucking company copied that shit, really pisses me off. 2015 phones could have their backs opened and the battery changed if needed, no need for special tools.

Phones are unlikely to become open, as in owners can actually fuck around with the software and hardware as they’d like, anytime soon. A few try that, but it’s unlikely to become mainstream because there’s no market pressure

Doesn’t stop them from using it as the “reason” for several rules

Officially, “its too hard”. Realistically, they don’t do shit because those shits bring in money by paying for exposition

Die almond hands, bro! We’re all gonna make it, bro!!! Trust the code, bro!!!

The last part I think happens because the people who are there are most likely the ones that dislike very short content, which is what Mastodon offers by default (I know it depends on instance, some allow 1k or 5k character toots), but it’s a disorganized mess. It’s a kind of service/software for fast communication that can be done better in a specific Discord server. The “good stuff” will always end up posted elsewhere, like personal blogs or websites, where it’s better organized (most of the time)

One thing that keeps people on xitter is the “it’s where I get the news”. Major news outlets aren’t on Mastodon and likely won’t be. There’s also the stuff that “you get to know before it becomes news”, which also won’t be on Mastodon because it lacks the “gossipers” and the mass of users that is needed for having people “everywhere”

Threads stood as much chance as Google Plus had against Facebook.

Zuckerfucker using a somewhat similar strategy to artificially boost Threads membership (login with instagram once, you can’t delete your threads account without also deleting the instagram one) speaks volumes.

I find phones the least secure devices simply because of how likely they are to be damaged or stolen

Probably, but the real problem has been database dumps for a good number of years now. Maybe this thing fixes that?

they should advocate for a more robust robots.txt on their instances server.

Only a couple of bots respect that file anyway

And several governments from various countries and at various levels (municipal, state, federal)

buT sToRAgE iS cHeaP!!11!1!

Tried to open the ghost home site and it nearly crashed my Firefox, jeez

followed by a line break / new paragraph (which you conveniently removed)

I removed nothing. Maybe your client works with single line breaks. The browser ignores a single line break (enter) and only works with one extra empty line.

this will           |  this will render
render as a         |  
single line         |  a separate paragraph  

Paywall. That site frankly does not even look legit and looking at the plethora of other AI sites I don’t know who would use this one. It’s not even displaying correctly and has like 0 information on anything. If I were to stumble upon that site I’d think it is shady as hell.

The “Paywall” followed by “That site” makes most people think (me included) that you’re talking about the news outlet, 404media, not the AI site mentioned. Writing something like this:

Paywall. The AI site they mention does not even look legit (…)

Wouldn’t leave such a wide margin for misinterpretation