@themadcodger @markrprior @maegul @atomicpoet I keep seeing people recommending PWA as a solution for the lack of mobile apps for the non-Mastodon ActivityPub platforms. And I don’t get it. Those people really must have a thing for pain, because every PWA I’ve tried can most charitably be described as “janky”. Doesn’t feel natural, doesn’t deal with being offline and generally just awkward.

@MetalSamurai

@gr0k @atomicpoet @gruber Bluesky only seems simpler just now as there’s only one app and one server. The whole reason for developing AT was it would be federated, but “better” than ActivityPub by allowing truly nomadic user accounts. Of course the nomadic accounts don’t exist, so maybe they’ll never enable federation and just be a centralised Twitter replacement. Then their absence of actual moderation will come to bite them.

@MetalSamurai

“Social media overall feels like when I used to go out four nights a week and drink Miller Lite until 3 am: It was cheap and fun and probably created a huge part of my personality, but, yeah, I’m too old to be doing that shit again.”

— Verge EIC Nilay Patel expressing pretty perfectly my own feelings about most social mediums these days

https://embedded.substack.com/p/my-internet-nilay-patel-verge-interview

@mimsical

@codinghorror I really hope the GOP starts pushing anti-porn laws, because Dems would win in a landslide in 2024.

When I was in high school, my church had a big Spiritual Growth Workshop at a large Orlando hotel. At the end of the 4-day conference the hotel manager informed our organizer that, as a group, we had broken their record for pay-per-view porn by a pretty wide margin. We broke a porn record in Florida. Do you know how hard that is? (Some pun intended)

@ukuku

In reply to @treehousedarren.

@treehousedarren @FreakyFwoof I don't think you need to be on mastodon.social in order for the correct spelling of Mastodon to matter. Aside from the official domain names hosting, Mastodon is correct and will get you to the thing you're trying to find out about/join, mastadon is not. So while I won't set my hair on fire over it, I will definitely correct someone's spelling to ensure they get the correct thing.

Yes we have had 146 mass shootings this year, but have you considered how bad things would be WITHOUT all the thoughts and prayers? We would have:

-Super cancer.
-Spiders with chainsaw legs.
-Babies being born with full sets of adult teeth.
-Golden Retrievers going extinct.
-The same number of mass shootings but they were all done by Keanu Reeves, the celebrity we love and trust the most.

@lowqualityfacts