This isn’t just about losing your Facebook account. It’s about what else you can’t do because much of our society relies on Facebook. This is the real problem. From TFA:

This article is not a complaint about Meta; it’s a wider discussion on how we as a society have allowed platforms like Facebook to become borderline necessary to participate in society. It’s about how a company is allowed to be the sole decision maker in whether you can participate in those areas of society.

Through network effects, Facebook, Google, and friends have created a centralized version of the Internet, only accessible through them.

We’re in a situation where companies have managed to embed themselves so far into society, that they’re acting like providers of social services.

But what will happen to the Thrifty ice cream?

I know what’s wrong with it.

Surely not Ted! That mighty hero dines at the Allfather’s banquet, surrounded by the mightiest heros of all the ages!

@remindme@mstdn.social 30 days

They haven’t broken up with this country. They’re standing up for her.

Showed this to my family the other night. We’re all fairly well plugged in and read up on things, and we still learned a bunch.

What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not?

I’m sure that’s true, but this one went over my head. Help?

Somebody had better build the other 361 variants of this.

This is one possible future for “good” AI.

Shh! We don’t want them to notice us.

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I’m not doing anything I can’t put off. Come on over. I’ll make iced tea and burgers. Who’s bringing the sides?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire

Family walks are great

They mean political handcuffs, not the criminal kind. If trump wins but democrats control part of congress, then he will have a harder time pushing through legislation.

I was there, Gandalf, when we named hosts after your horse and didn’t pronounce the “dot” in “.com”

Came looking for zombo.com. Was not disappointed.

But then, zombo.com is the old Internet.

This sounds like a good solution. Can you share how you did it?