Exactly. If you can’t afford an expensive lawyer, the US wants you to lose.

Actually, it’s not only that they want you to lose. It wants the entire system to be so expensive that you can’t even afford to go to court and lose. You have to settle, and don’t have a lot of power determining the terms.

I have quit from more than 10 companies (i’m old), and I’d say that 100% of the time the reason was shitty managers.

But “A raise in pay” would be the best solution to convince to me stay.

Whatever the reason it’s happening, it’s happening. And has been happening for weeks.

Even if a bad experience has a reason, a bad experience is a bad experience.

It feels like it is.

Most communities have no posts for days. I’m constantly logged out of my instance. Voting on something fails 80% of the time…

I understand e-cigarettes are supposed to help you quit

They’re not.

An e-cigarette is just like a normal cigarette, but you’re not inhaling burned paper. If you were inhaling addictive substances with normal cigarettes, nothing is stopping you from doing the same with an e-cig.

Do they work? In the sense that they “burn” (in quotes) substances and let you inhale them, then yes. That is their purpose.

Because we were talking about how to save that information without using cookies. Setting a cookie would break the one thing that the conversation was about, wouldn’t it?

If we’re in a fun conversation about how to enter your home without using the door, would you be the one saying “I have an idea, I have an idea: use the door”?

This is so American…

“Let me send an SMS, while I ride my horse to go to my bank and do other things that people used to do in 1870.”

“Oh, their SMS color is different! I dislike people with a different color than me.”

It does, yes.

And since lots of people in the Fediverse support blocking popular competitors, like people in Mastodon talking about blocking/unfederating Threads, I’d say we’re making sure the Fediverse stays in obscurity forever. Never having a chance to become popular, never having a chance to convince people to leave proprietary platforms.

The washing machine does it for you.

It would be like vacuuming your house by yourself before your Roomba turns on.

It does, although not as much as water. But that’s also an unfair comparison, because nothings hydrate you as much as water.

Yes. And it’s also not clear how EEE is going to be applied here in this case.

EEE is easy to do when you’re adopting something no one uses, like what happened with XMPP.

EEE is not easy to do with something that millions of people use. Look at emails, for example. Emails are still out there.

And let’s stick to the example of emails. If every other email server decided to not work with GMail, then 99.99% of users would migrate to GMail and GMail would “win” so hard that emails would cease to exist outside of Google’s control.

If you tell people that they can only interact with the hundreds of millions of people out there if they use the popular proprietary tool, they WILL choose the popular proprietary tool. Even if that proprietary tool push hate speech and bad news down their throats. And that’s going to kill any chance Mastodon might have had.

Was it?

This meme is so “junior dev”. Just get over it.

Junior dev with 2 months of experience: “Did you know that HTML is not a programming language? I’m so smart for knowing this!”

Actual smart devs: “Who cares? You know what they mean, don’t be pedantic and focus on getting your tasks done in time.”

And even if you’re storing relevant user data, you don’t have to put a banner.

You only need a banner if you’re storing data you don’t need, for tracking or other secondary purposes.

Remembering that the user asked to not see that banner again.

No, the Dunning-Kruger is what makes water easy to compress.

People have been repeating these fearmongering ideas, but with nothing concrete.

How is Threads going to destroy the fediverse if we make it easier for people to choose to come to Mastodon?

And how do you think that pushing people towards Threads is going to save the Fediverse?

And, like I said, if the entire protocol that the fediverse runs on is independent of Mastodon, how can Mastodon even stop it?

Not totally sure, but I don’t think that negotiating with Threads on anything at any point is a winning strategy. They’ll win every time. Kind of a ‘give them an inch they take a mile’ situation in my head.

Federating with them isn’t “negotiating” in any way.

Any fear of Threads controlling the protocol is out of our hands, because the protocol isn’t in the hands of the Mastodon devs, it’s in the hands of W3C. So no matter what Mastodon instances do, it won’t affect Threads and W3C.

At least by staying separate the user base will have to make a conscious decision about where they want to spend time instead of letting Meta dictate that for them in the future.

I think that by not federating with them, we’re TAKING AWAY the option for people to make a decision, and forcing the worst possible choice on them. Imagine I want to follow a guy that is really popular on Threads. If Mastodon federates with them, I can decide to make an account on Mastodon and follow the guy from the safety of a network that it not governed by algorithms that promote hate, or I can decide to make a Threads account and follow them there. It’s my choice.

But if Mastodon instances do NOT federate with Threads, the only way for me to follow that popular guy is by creating a Threads account and using the Threads app. By not federating, Mastodon removed my ability to choose and forced the worst possible option on me.

We should want MORE people using Mastodon, not fewer people. Let them follow Threads profiles from the safety of Mastodon.

It’s the best way to find a partner.

And it’s basically the norm, like someone said. Been like that for many years.

That’s the perfect moment to know if someone will ridicule you for your music choices. If it happens, you stop the conversation right there and save yourself the trouble of a awful first date.

Well, even saying that you can’t remember the song because you snorted cocaine out of your adult diaper is better than being a jerk.