Other than 4chan, the fediverse is the easiest social media to manipulate.
The admins here at least don’t cooperate, but they/we also don’t really do anything to stop it. We don’t have the tools to stop it that Reddit and others do.
When you get banned on Reddit, you typically need a new IP and new email in order to make a new account that doesn’t get instantly banned. Here you don’t have to go through all the trouble.
The bots here will grow, very soon.
No, that’s just three finding out part. Others fucking around has gifted us all with some finding out, even if we already knew and didn’t fuck around.
It’s kind of amazing that in 2026 shit posting is a nation-state level weapon.
You’re absolutely right!
I’d recommend one that’s not plastic. (Though I have that same one and use it occasionally.)
That’s what I was here to post.
The archive.is and archive.today sites have been caught changing text of articles to fit the Russian narrative.
I can’t say I know of an alternative.
Build the mass transit first, then the apartments make sense.
I’ve heard great things about Malazan. I should probably pick that up.
Sanderson is a great airport read.
I wouldn’t recommend it outside of that context. It’s nothing special.
This isn’t helpful.
They knew. Not all the details, but this much was clear.
How big of a hit was BttF in Russia?
I understand the intent, but this is not phrased well.
prevents your messages being spied on by Signal, but ironically they’re probably one of the most trustworthy actors in this whole chain, so the fact that it’s protected from them, while commendable, is not particularly valuable security
It’s extremely valuable security, because most companies, even if they don’t want to spy on you might be compelled to by court order. And those companies often think their security is sufficient because they have good intentions, and they expect the government to have good intentions when they’re going as far as getting a court order. (I also suspect more court orders are justified than not, but a few bad subpoenas spoil the bunch.) The fact that they physically are unable is quite important.
All your points about how things around that can fail are valid.
I will say that double posting is a completely reasonable solution. More orgs should be the gateway where they can be seen, and have the visibility of the big platforms, but they also offer Mastodon as an alternative. If enough orgs do that, it enables people to just… move.
It’s hard for users to move when 75% of their content is exclusive to X. And it’s hard for orgs to move when 75% of the users are on X. Double posting allows this to move to 10% X exclusive content, 60% content that’s available everywhere, and 10% exclusive to open platforms. After the orgs move the content, it’s so much easier for users to move, and after the users move, it’s easier for the orgs to move.
This should be a cooperative thing. And afaik it doesn’t take that much effort to post the content to two places.
The US would lose, no chance.
Maybe we haven’t been losing enough. Our losers might want to lose more bigly.
We’re getting away from “speak softly and carry a big stick.” We’re more interested now in yelling loudly while shooting ourselves in the foot.
Hopefully things are better in a year.
You fucking idiot.
I think he used to care more. I’d also say he was never a good engineer, but he was better at learning what his top engineers were trying to show him and pushing through answers that made sense.
He’s since lost any of that touch with reality. The engineers he listened to said no too much. He found right-wing grifters that are now teaching him, and they say “no” a whole lot less than the engineers did.
We’re about to get hit with the biggest propaganda campaign in history.
Just sneak in the narrative that the US needs to build a wall to keep the Canadians out and we’ll build at least a small section (while grifting for the rest).