Says the person who felt a childish need to write such a comment 🤷

Well, if you have read it then your cherry picking of minor ways Bluesky is slighly less closed comes accross as pretty bad faith 🤷

stelle ich in yt die Tonspur um auf Original

Also vieleicht bin ich nur zu blöd das zu finden, aber geht das überhaupt wenn man nicht eingeloggt ist und keinen yt Account hat?

Russia outspends the whole of EU in military built-up

This is blatantly false and it takes a lot of massaging the numbers to reach even parity in spending like the OP article claims (but it uses pre-war PPP figures, which is completely laughable).

Is military spending efficient in the EU? No. Do we spend too much on unreliable US made weapons? Yes!

But Russia is spending a tiny fraction of what the EU+UK does, and its troups are exhausted from a protracted war with Ukraine.

Maybe they will try to poke a sleeping bear to divide us further as a form of asymetric warfare, but in no way (other that nuclear) is Russia an existential threat to Europe right now.

This is just the age old cold war fearmongering back in action. Lots of profits to be made from that…

Before SpaceX, Ariane Space was pretty dominant in the commercial sattelite launch market. But they completely botched the Ariane 6 design and are now likely still decade away from having a reusable first stage, which is required to remain competitive.

They can be lucky that SpaceX is wasting their resources on a reusable second stage, which will likely never be economical.

Offensichtlich ist von Meck-Pomm die Rede, aber für manche ignorante Berliner ist das halt alles JWD 🤷

Hmm, did Pocketbase add AP support, or how is this implemented behind the scenes?

Judging by the screenshots there are better looking IRC apps, but fine 🤷

Please PM me about it.

Maybe just a hint to get you thinking out of the box, but cat doors really don’t need to be at ground level. They will happily climb somewhere to get in and out.

If I remember correctly this was a scam anyways as it needed a lot of natural gas to pre-heat the central tower in the morning or so. So on less sunny days it was net-negative energy wise. But I might remember wrong.

I think you should find a smaller, well moderated instance and show it to your parents first. If they consent with her signing up to it, it should be fine and generally speaking there is no practical way for instances to check the age of their members anyways.

Tumblr is being reworked to have a Wordpress backend right now, and Wordpress already has well working ActivityPub support, so yes, Tumblr will very likely happen once they made the switch.

I suspect the technical debt in Tumblr was larger than expected when the first announce federation support, and now it became nearly a full rewrite, which takes time.

The most they can do is add a load of more users to the fediverse then take them away again. For them to successfully EEE the fediverse, it would require convincing existing fediverse users to switch to threads. I cannot see that happening on here on any noticeable scale.

Na, they were quite explicit what their plan is: they realized that there are interesting “content creators” on the fediverse, and that many other “content creators” are eying the fediverse and similar platforms as a way to have more control over the platform they use. And ultimately users will follow the creators, once the creators are sufficiently fed up with being taken hostage by facebook etc. So they are willing to let the creators switch to the fediverse, but want to retain the users as ultimatly that is where their revenue is coming from via advertisement and data harvesting.

I highly recommend you read up on history. For most of humanity’s existence we lived in small relatively egalitarian groups were people depended on each other for survival.

Your “always” is a very recent state of afairs and also not universally true even today.

It’s not any worse than the differen’t feature support levels of different Matrix clients. But especially on Android, XMPP has nice modern clients with all the features you would expect, including a/v calls and reactions/stickers.

The main issue right now are up to date Windows desktop clients, but on Linux desktop there are some good options.

We run the latest beta.7 on https://photon.slrpnk.net/

There is: XMPP 🤷

There is not much they can do about it short of shutting down the entire server. Due to how matrix functions internally any sufficiently large federated homeserver replicates most of the entire network.

It is a bit counter-intuitive but restricting new signups will not help them much. The way the matrix protocol is designed, i.e. replicating everything on every server, means that clients connecting to their server have only a minor impact. As long as most rooms of the entire matrix network are replicated on the matrix.org homeserver their costs will stay high and there isn’t really much they can do about that other than shutting it down entirely.