They had 270 users. It was always a token level of interest by an organization with lots of other problems to address.
Mozilla exits the fediverse and will shutter its Mastodon server in December
They had 270 users. It was always a token level of interest by an organization with lots of other problems to address.
Mozilla exits the fediverse and will shutter its Mastodon server in December
In only 15 years, we’ve gotten to a point where almost no one believes anything that they see, read, or hear, unless it’s exactly what they wanted to see, read or hear. And thousands of billionaires all over the world are quite okay with that. But it has brought much of government to its knees. And no one politician is going to change that. We need a plan.
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Read it to see why they chose the word “suggest.” They’re planting a suggestion that it *might* be true if there were much data to support it. Which there isn’t.
New Poll Suggests Harris’s Support Has Stalled After a Euphoric August
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/08/upshot/trump-harris-poll-analysis.html
There is a TikTok account for a group called TrumpWords. A series of kids quoting Trump making it every clear just what a pathetic role model he is. You gotta see it.
In any other era, this Russian influence scandal would have been front page news for weeks
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/9/5/2268007/-The-Putin-Caucus-and-Its-Enablers
@mastodonmigration and even worse than Vandehei, as if that wasn’t bad enough, but also Mike Allen who has been wrecking our politics since Politico’s first day.
Did you hear that the ever more Republican-Friendly AXIOs has given the Trump campaign a handy list of things that Harris has “flip-flopped” on. This is what agenda journalism is all about folks. You don’t let people make news, you just go out and create it.
@mastodonmigration I hear that a lot. I’m not persuaded. Democrats have given the most evil people a pass for generations because they offered some short-term political gain. Praising people for doing what they should be doing anyway feels hollow. But we love to do it in this country. It’s another reason everything sucks
JFC, I wish people would stop this. Praising Dick Cheney for voting for Kamala Harris, is sort of like praising Jeffrey Dahmer for eating a Twinkie.
Finally, the Democrats Have Found Trump’s Achilles’ Heel: Ridicule Him | The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/article/185270/democrats-harris-trump-achilles-heel-ridicule
@jessamyn @steve @tchambers BTW, there are fairly easy ideas that could put a toe in the water, if you haven’t already. A “Best of Mefi” feed, for example, only requires a good posting tool and some guidelines to curate. I think Tim could hook you up with some existing solutions for that.
No ask yet, but tossing stuff around is how ideas are born here. Sometimes the tech can drive the idea, and sometimes the quality of the content can. RSS is not going to help you much. But a well constructed group and some bots might. When I have a little more time, I’ll outline a few ideas.
@steve @jessamyn @tchambers RSS feeds are fine for consuming content generally, but they get messy fast without some degree of moderation. And they’re not designed for thread-specific moderation as Lemmy and like products are.
This is a real @nytimes headline. Seriously.
Conservative Moms, Charmed by Trump, Would Rather Avoid His Misogyny
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/31/us/elections/conservative-moms-for-liberty-trump.html
@steve @jessamyn @tchambers that was my first thought which is why I'm asking for clarification. There are other possibilities.
@jessamyn Indeed. Which is one reason I am working with @newmast and @tchambers on first getting activityPub group actors working well, and then building on that. Integrating and cross-connecting groups should be easier than entire instances. May I add you to our “interested parties” list? I’m organizing a chat about it.
@tchambers have we heard much from Threads about following fediverse actors yet? I still hear the voices of the skeptics in my head, telling me to be wary we don’t get Zucked again. AFAIK, there is no big technical reason for it not to happen. So why hasn’t it, I wonder.
lots of other tools so far beyond what big social would ever be capable of providing. That is crazy-exciting to me. The potential is enormous. But we’re still talking about not having quoted posts, and whether we’re appealing enough to sign-up Brazilian refugees who just lost their Twitter.
compete with Big Social, and not focused enough on what it does well, which is facilitate smaller and ultimately more impactful and necessary creative, professional, civic, and educational communities. And for all of them to much better served, we need far more than these extremely simple, brute-force communicators like microblogging. We need things like textcasting standards, personal and group repositories, clearinghouses, verifiers, metadata, more robust full-text search indexes, and …