That should certainly be entertaining. Frankly, I’m surprised he didn’t try it last time. But why the half measures? Why not just have all his political opponents shot?

I’m a supertaster and hypervigilant, so all my senses are dialed up to 11. My memory is also unusually good. Also my son claims I have “Poon vision”, but I’m not crazy about that idea.

Thirty-nine years ago I worked night shift during college. I’m still trying to straighten out my circadian rhythms.

Our rulers are hell-bent on killing off the majority of life on this planet, including our species. Can’t help but wonder if people will ever wake up and do the obvious.

There’s just no good reason to have a profit motive in social media when it simply doesn’t need to be there.

Exactly! In that regard, it’s like health care. The profit motive can only harm the public.

ActivityPub integration is another feature they can use to get attention.

See, that’s what I don’t understand. ActivityPub means nothing to the vast majority of potential Threads users. There’s no way that Meta is going to use ActivityPub to gain users; all they have to do is what they HAVE done, leverage Instagram. The only thing that makes sense to me is that they may be hoping that federation will allow them to get around the EU’s limitations.

But even that doesn’t really make sense. Zuck doesn’t really care that much about regulations. He breaks them all the time. Which leaves me with the question, why ActivityPub? What aren’t we seeing?

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That’s an interesting point. Can anyone take your original content and repost it to make money? As I understand it, anything you create is theoretically copyrighted at the moment you created. You’re not required to file a copyright, at least not in the United States.

Reddit will REALLY be good when those apathetic users are all that’s left to produce content and moderate subs! /s

The internet and even the web didn’t need profit for many long years before the web went commercial. I’ve been publishing my own website since 1996 without advertising or asking for donations. I just publish it because I love the topic. Profit is NOT the be-all and end-all of existence.

Don’t believe me? How much would you sell your children for?

You can’t become a billionaire without being incredibly evil. They are literally working to kill off all life on the planet.

As for giving them the benefit of the doubt? Seriously? Anyone who suggests that has got to be getting a nice paycheck from the plutocrats.

Reddit’s enshittification was delayed by COVID, but it happened nonetheless.

But aren’t Squabbles and Tilde both not federated, and therefore potentially subject to changes or even an IPO by the owners?

Yeah, I’m another old school early adopter who was on the internet since the '80s. No way the enshittification and souring of Reddit was caused by boomers and Gen xers. Most of them wouldn’t know how to get on, and those who would… Honestly, I’m the only boomer I know who is on there. Well, unless you go to some of the subreddits that are specifically for people over 50. And those people are incredibly nice! One of the few things I will really miss about Reddit.

Chi1d p0rn posters, among others. According to them, and I have no reason to doubt them.