I agree itโs confusing, but confusing in a way that makes it even less offensive and detractors even less sincere. Itโs obvious sheโs being sarcastic and the only confusing part is whatever she possibly meant about the election
I got defederated from both mastodon.social and mastodon.art despite being a low profile single-user instance and pretty much always being well-mannered.
If you try to basically get along with everyone, that actually makes you a target among some of the more aggressive censorship types, but I think itโs mostly their loss.
Reddit is great for grave-digging old product testimonials (vs. googling it and getting only sponsored content), recreational drug use tips, and some tech products that migrated there once they found mailing lists too annoying to manage. As an artist I would wear getting banned from that place with a badge of honor
Before the post-occupy gender pysop there was quite a bit of chatter online among linguists about this because itโs been common for a long time in vernacular English to say โtheyโ when youโre unsure of the gender of a singular entity. Thereโs been precedence for this since at least the time of Shakespeare. That being said, as annoying grammarians can be, itโs sloppy and should be avoided in writing, and enforcing the convention at the will of its antecedents no matter how absurd it can sound is an entirely different matter
โItโs very unlikely Nitter will be affected since the APIs arenโt used in the official way with developer credentials. Iโm slowly moving stuff to use their newer GraphQL APIs anyway, so if it breaks itโll be fixed soon-ish.โ
Heโs still very invested in it if not more so, โit sucks donโt use itโ is not really being an asshole as much as gatekeeping to keep the platform secretive and difficult to use. Nonetheless the collective IQ of the user base is by no means noticeably higher than that of Fedi. Up until the Twitter refugees came that is, as that has lowered it โhereโ by Iโd say a solid 20 points
I heard some racist Amish guy showed up and stirred up a bunch of trouble for a few minutes. Assembly has got to be the only tech conference that pulls in Amish people
Anyone still supporting this guy has to be about as brain dead as the idiots who hate him for being a โright-winger.โ They are each otherโs only reason they exist.