Is great until you need a job. It solves the 2 language problem right up until you’re working with others.

Ooo, is it made by the people I work for? Because this story sounds incredibly familiar to me.

Federated means you shoulder the cost of hosting the bits users care about, while they harvest all the value in what you post!

Is Rocksteady stupid? Tough to say. They’re not an independent studio, so it’s possible they didn’t get to call their shots on this one.

Really, the GaaS thing has the publisher’s fingerprints all over it.

Unfortunately, it’s not the publisher who will shed jobs over this. The decision makers never have to take the fall for their bad decisions.

And as with cinnamon, all you need is quadruple the amount of sugar as you use coffee in order for it to start tasting ok.

I mean, it was ground this morning

My experience using the *bins has been that they provide a superior community UX, but the microblogging end of things feels very rough and under-invested in. It’s a value-add that doesn’t integrate well, or add real value.

There’s a ton of potential there for cross-posting, but it’s totally unrealized.

The Misskey forks are definitely the best UX as an end user I’ve tested out. And I found them easier to set up than Lemmy. But I also found that they caused frequent CPU spikes on my VPS.

I’m not sure if Mastodon does that or not, as I didn’t try running it, but I didn’t have the same experience with Akkoma or Friendica.

That said, I found Icefish’s implementation of the Mastodon API a godsend for mobile use.

Ackshually, the answer is 4

6÷2*(1+2)

6÷(1+2)*2

6÷(3)*2

2*2

4

You’re welcome

It’s also clear that people who deny the extent to which capitalism actually makes the world worse either a) don’t know what capitalism is, or b) are rent seekers

Also that – thanks in large part to movements like the Arab Spring using Twitter to organize and publicize – it became the go-to social media for reporters. The news -> celebrity -> news cycle closes itself nicely there, making it very difficult for either group to go anywhere else.

I would say it’s basic pattern recognition.

It was ruined long before he touched it

It just made it worse faster

I have [email protected], and my community rec organization couldn’t even accept it because their system had a hard coded lost of TLDs it would recognize for email addresses.

You can have as many forks as you want, but that’s a software engineer’s solution to a social problem. Lemmy is the “name brand” now for ActivityPub based federated content aggregation, and it will be orders of magnitudes more difficult to get support for forks, both from a contributor and from a user perspective.

Just look at last year’s Twitter migration, and the sea of people complaining about Mastodon not having features they felt were a requirement for adoption, while also ignoring every other Mastodon alternative on the Fediverse that had everything they were looking for.

Yes, that’s more or less right. Different systems will slice it different tlt, but for the most part there’s “government”, which includes all the mechanisms of state, and then there’s The Government, which is the cabinet.

Many systems have independent heads of state and heads of government. In these cases, you have a president with executive powers somewhat similar in concept, but generally less broad in scope, to the US president, and a prime minister or chancellor who is elected by Parliament or the legislative assembly to form an independent cabinet.

It would be like if your executive secretaries were selected by the majority party leader.

In British Commonwealth countries, things are slightly different, because our head of state is the British monarch, and the monarchy has operated under a policy of non-interference for, like, almost a century now. So, they just rubberstamp whatever the head of government presents to them.

Westminster parliaments also operate under a principle of parliamentary supremacy. There’s none of this “equal powers” stuff. The head of state asks parliament for things, but for the most part thr head of state exists to enact the will of Parliament.

The Senate is actually doing something interesting for once, but the Senate doesn’t usually put forward legislation, and they’re completely unable to put forward spending bills. And on top of that, they’re not The Government.