This is all I need to never even look at a Jeep... how pathetic can these idiots get?
I do not think it’s a good idea to isolate people in cults in their own echo chambers… although my faith in humanity and basic decency has seen better days, I still believe good examples matter.
Never had a reason to block an instance, here or in mastodon.
If falsehoods are significantly represented on the web, Gemini, having no way to fact-check the info, will believe the sites it scrapped.
Interesting… so it will be great at falling for conspiracy theories. Awesome.
I agree that publishing a blog might sometimes seem like writing to yourself. I still do it occasionally when I have something to say. Much to my surprise, I get ransom references that people read, and in some cases, they liked what they read.
Unlike quick thoughts on social media posts, which tend to be ephemeral, blog posts have much longer lifespans.
But yep, I see the author's point…
Not counting WordPress, that I really (really!!!) dislike (just because; your mileage may vary), I would say that Writefreely is the closest to traditional blog platform with activitypub baked in.
You can try it on https://writefreely.org/instances
Really love podcasting. Last one I created was a decade ago, give or take, gotta do another soon. :-)
But I think you pretty much nailed the current state of affairs.
Weird, I had a bluesky add-on on my experimental friendica installation and have not noticed any messages other than the ones people I followed participated in.
I have since deleted it, so cannot figure out what they have done differently.
He was the founder… I did not know he had left.
I find it odd that people follow Jack Dorsey into another sewer in troves. They seem to like the previous Twitter experiment, while I find it repugnant.
The lesson today is that I don't get the social media phenomenon. My bad. I hope they have a ton of fun.
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That’s what I use. Although I Have a Plex lifetime subscription, Jelliyfin is just too fantastic.