LTT deliberately fucked over a small boutique water cooling shop. They had a host if other fuckery that needed to be exposed. Why would GN chill out when LTT was doing stuff that directly opposed GN’s pro-consumer and pro-small business values?

What drama has GN stirred up that wasn’t warranted?

Omg finally a positive piece of news. happy for all the thai couples! they deserve to be happy!!

Ah sweet, so it’s only 99% fucked! Now I can go back to sharing misleading news stories in peace.

Nothing else to say.

Flashes itself is based on Berlin developer Sebastian Vogelsang’s earlier app, Skeets, his initial foray into creating consumer-facing apps for the growing social network, Bluesky, which now tops 27.5 million users.

While Bluesky offers its own official mobile client, Skeets differentiated itself by focusing on the needs of iPad users as well as customized accessibility features for blind and low-vision users, as that’s one of Vogelsang’s areas of expertise.

Okay so this is coming from someone other than Bluesky the company, which is very promising for Bluesky’s ongoing decentralization.

a mark of a truly open platform. lol

so that’s why i prefer the flavor of big brand tea bags…

Fair point. Evidently I didn’t read 100% of the article.

sure, but what is 404 Media supposed to do about that? If they stopped sharing their stories on these services, they would have no way to reach new audiences, and so they would slowly start dying off. You could argue that a larger publication like NYT could certainly take a stand like this, but traditional media isn’t exactly in a strong position right now. Decentralized platforms are useless to these publications if nobody is using them.

i mean, they are on Facebook too. If you are a journalist or a publication, you have to go to where the people are to spread the word about your articles, even if the people are on a platform you do not like. I’ve had mixed feelings about this lately with regards to X (a neo-nazi platform) and artists that continue to use that platform. But at the end of the day, unless you are a large organization with lots of influence, you need to be on social media to survive.

Well this is Bloomberg, and Western media like Bloomberg has been saying “the Russian economy is about to collapse!” for two years now. I’ll believe when it’s actually happening.

open stuff scares people. plus with messengers, we’re kind of bound to what our friends use. I’ve been slowly converting friends to Signal, and but people are very reluctant to change when the thing they have already works. Can’t imagine how much friction I would hit with something like matrix.

you’re absolutely right, i just like to take every chance I can to point out that our overlords are hypocrites and you shouldn’t trust a single word that they say.

I’m generally given to trust Malwarebytes regarding cybersecurity, but they don’t mention at all that E2E encryption is not the default messaging style on Telegram. That, plus the article being from 2021, makes me distrustful of that source.

Signal is still the only service I am aware of that does not store logs of user messages on servers. Messages only exist on the devices of individual users.

super cool! glad to hear Black Twitter gets to be a more formal thing now for black users, with moderation by the community for the community.

in Putin’s Russia, the dogs sell YOU the weed!

great context! thanks for pointing that out

this is so funny to me just a robot dog walkin around like “hey kid…you wanna buy some PCP?”

Yeah that’s kind of where my mind is changing. However, I do think the conversation is different depending on whether it’s an unsigned indie artist vs. Billie Eilish. Billie is gonna sell her records and tickets whether she’s on X or not, and besides, she’s probably made enough by now to never need to work again.