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Saw someone talking about the edit button on here and I shamefully have to admit that I was one of those people who believed Twitter should never have one, because “what if I like a post and then a guy changes it to nazi shit” and “how am I gonna prove what that nazi said to me to make me go off like that in the reply, otherwise?”

Two things I learned when coming here, and I learned them very quickly

A) about 80% of my worries are covered by Mastodon giving me a notification that the post I liked or boosted, has changed – I just read it again and if it’s a problem, I unlike/boost.

B) the remaining 20% of my problem is more or less solved by having a server admin who is on MY side against, well, literal fucking nazis, and doesn’t want me to spend all of my time building airtight cases to prove nazis are harassing me beyond the shadow of even unreasonable doubts, before they’ll do anything.

The edit feature is fine. The problem was Twitter.

—@AnarchoNinaWrites

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Meta Launches Threads, And It’s Important For Reasons That Most People Won’t Care About by Mike MasnickMike Masnick

As you may have heard, yesterday Meta finally launched Threads, its Twitter-like microblogging service, built on ActivityPub, but using Instagram account credentials for login. The reaction from across the internet has been fascinating. I’ve seen everything from people insisting that this will clearly finally be the one single “Twitter killer” everyone’s been waiting for, to […]

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Very disappointed in the #Uber presentation at #NFB23, where an employee of 10 years claimed in front of the entire convention that Uber has implemented #a11y into their development processes, while show stopping bugs still exist in the app like inability to cancel rides with VoiceOver. And access for guide dog users has only gotten worse in the past 10 years. We have no reason to trust #Uber. It is time to protest and demand our rights as blind people and guide dog users to ride without issues.

—@MikeForzano

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Dan Hon (@danhon@dan.mastohon.com) (Mastohon)
Everyone* is going to be there, they did the work so the Brands were there on day one being all Brand-y, all the influencers and Creators are there, plus there are enough early 21st century mall cops around so the Nazis aren't *too* visible. It'll be packed and Elon is fucked. The amount of prep work Meta must've done to get all those blue checks lined up on day one, they know how to run their advertising businesses.
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Very simply, the response about Threads from @Gargron is impossibly naive. It assumes good faith interactions with a company that routinely demonstrates, and often flaunts it’s lack of ethics. There is no universe in which Mastodon gets Threads content for free. Either they’re going to find a way to monetize Mastodons userbase or they’re not going to implement interoperability.

You don’t build a milk empire by letting everyone have free access to the cows.

—@GrayGooGirl