Twitter’s even worse than that. Sometimes they require login to view a tweet. Sometimes you can see every post on an account. Sometimes there are certain posts missing in a timeline but you can’t know without logging in.

Ridiculously annoying.

Amazing! Keep stepping on rakes, Reddit.

They’re really doing this right:

As explained above, the team started out with a shared view that Quote Posts can be misused. Many people simply do not want their content to be reframed by others; or they may find that if it is reposted, they receive unwelcome attention.

In order to mitigate these issues, we plan to include several features in our implementation:

You will be able to choose whether your posts can be quoted at all.
You will be notified when someone quotes you.
You will be able to withdraw your post from the quoted context at any time.

We also want to build a tight integration for Quote Posts with the reporting functionality, to help people to feel more safe.

Yes. And the statute of limitations is a year into the next admin. This agreement is them acknowledging that they’re breaking the law.

*smash cut to nine months later*

https://archive.is/vSHSC

Probably worth doing if you can write “eat shit” for every answer.

There’s no fucking way they’re breaking even.

Nice. Get ready to scale your servers, folks!

…and they said you were mad to hoard all that blubber!

Must be a time travel thing. Some advice for you, visitors from 24 hours ago: learn Dutch. The Netherlands conquered the world in the 18-hour war and English is a dying language. And stock up on whale blubber. You’re gonna need it.

Dunno. It’s $78K now.

They’re about to launch a second flagship server to relieve some of the stress on p.s. It sounds like it’ll be in the next day or two (but you never know with them).

Might be a good option if you’re still having trouble when they fire it up.

The server’s getting hammered today for sure. People on the server are posting at a rate of 5 posts per second. It’s wild.

Registrations are open though. The local timeline is filled with first posts from accounts created today.

Pixelfed SMASH

Already nearly $75K:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixelfed/pixelfed-foundation-2024-real-ethical-social-networks

Just $500 from their funding goal! 🎉

Edit: goal met!

I don’t think that it can just be declared satisfied, though. I imagine Google and Apple’s obscenely top-shelf representation will be like, “this has about this much legal merit”:

But who knows! :)

as long as 90 days if a path to a qualified divestiture has been identified, “significant” progress has been made to executing the divestiture, and legally binding agreements for facilitating the divestiture are in place.

My point is that no path has been identified, no progress has been made, and nothing is in place.

I’m curious whether “can probably get away with it” is enough for them. And whether they’ll take the risk for no reward whatsoever in the case of Apple and Google.

I’m way more interested in the reactions of Google, Apple, Oracle, and the dozens of other corporations ByteDance depends on.

The “90-day extension” Trump keeps talking about has no basis in law except to conclude an in-process divestment, which currently doesn’t exist. He can order the law not to be enforced, but you’re still breaking the law. It’ll interesting to see if those companies are willing to along with an executive order their counsel knows is illegal or are willing to knowingly break the law under the promise they won’t be prosecuted (for now).

edit: IANAL