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Reddit, Following in Twitter’s Footsteps Like a Lost Puppy
Earlier last year, when Musk restricted access to Twitter’s API (see: X) and started charging for access to it, Reddit’s team, and likely also the CEO, Steve Huffman, decided that this was a way cool and awesome idea. And, just like the nonstop shoehorning of AI into literally everything, most people were disgusted by the…
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Community Moderation, The Bad Place, and Doing the Work Yourself
I’m kind of a weirdo. I have an account on numerous ActivityPub instances ranging from Mastodon, to Misskey, to a rather new one that replaces Tumblr, called Wafrn. And I’m writing this post today, because of something that I was made aware of via that new Tumblr replacement, AP connected instance: People are still sharing…
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mkultra.monster, a Mastodon Instance
If you’re seeing this from the Fediverse, it’s because I have my self-hosted WordPress blog using plugins that connect it directly via something of a pseudo instance. Each post on my blog is also a post on the Fediverse, and although I can follow users from WordPress, it’s not exactly bug free, in that I…
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Strings of Strangeness, a Mastodon Odyssey
This has sort of been a thing since I first relaunched an instance on the ActivityPub network in my efforts to govern my own space, and also get away from bad administration and moderation on past instances (hackers.town to name one, forever banned for telling a bully to shut his face, literally). Basically, I don’t…
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The True Era of Open Source
If you’re a user of Windows, and have been for a large portion of your life, you’re probably astounded that, via Windows 11, Microsoft is both trying to mimic Apple, and embedding information theft directly into your desktop. What do I mean? I mean, Apple does Apple better than Microsoft, and the inaccurately named “AI”…