In other words, your post may still be visible on, say, a linked Mastodon server, even if you decide to delete it with Threads.

“I think this is a downside of the protocol that we use today, but I think it’s important to let people know that if you post something and another server grabs a copy, we can’t necessarily enforce it,” Cottle says.

… it’s not a downside of the protocol, it’s just a literal impossibility. Once someone’s downloaded something, you can’t do a thing to take it back.

Better yet, check out NewPipe on F-Droid. :^)

Missed the chance for the title “There will never be a second Second Life,” real shame.

Your redirect idea would probably work excellently as a browser extension — there are are redirect extensions like that for Mastodon already, actually.

As for the domain… the only thing I can think of would be, like you said, a Lemmy instance.

From what I understand, opening a port isn’t a risk in and of itself — it’s only a risk if the software using the port is insecure! So long as you use reliable software and take care to configure things properly (following through with instructions from a site like ArchWiki or the official documentation helps), you’re good.

CloudFlare is more for DDOS protection, which you almost certainly don’t need . You could always set up DDOS protection later on, if the need ever arises.

I reckon that people become leftists out of compassion, but the dehumanizing rhetoric seems cool and edgy; so they slide into it, thinking it’s OK.

Hate systems, not people. Don’t eat the rich, eat their money.

Yea, sarcasm’s contextual. Unless the joke’s about some opinion directly contradicting the community you’re posting in, it’s not safe to leave /s-less.

Yea, output’ll vary widly based on context. Heck, even if you start from scratch with identical prompts, output’ll still be randomized.

Jesus, this is just about as blatant as you can get. I honestly can’t imagine how people can eat up such clearly dehumanizing politics and not get a bad taste in their mouth…

Here’s how you can tell if you’re the baddy: Do you support policies to spite or “own” others? Do you think, “fuck ‘em, I don’t care,” “they’re disgusting,” or “they’ve gotta be taught a lesson?”

Then you’re probably the baddy, stop it! Dehumanization, even casually, is the root of all evil.

It doesn’t necessarily mean you’re wrong, obviously — you might’ve stumbled into being right for the wrong reasons — but wow, is it a huge red flag!

When a post is edited (title or otherwise), a little pencil icon is shown to tell you it’s edited, just like comments.

Consolidation on the net definitely is a market failure, can’t argue that.

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Yeaa, that sounds pretty likely. If that ends up being the case, then defederation might make sense.

I hope it very much doesn’t get defederated. Meta’s service would have less of a lock-in effect if it could communicate with other servers. The primary reason people stick to platforms like Facebook & co. is that their friends and family are on it; but if they can keep talking to them on a different platform, they’re suddenly much more susceptible to ditching Meta and ditching apathy in regards to privacy.

Be seemingly friendly to Meta and any other social media company that starts using ActivityPub — so that we can get normies to ditch them and join the libre side. :)

(ofc, this position is on a case-by-case basis and hinges on how exactly federation is handled by the service at hand. We’ll see!)

It doesn’t look half-bad, actually! :o

I’m not too worried about DeSantis, honestly. He’s a horrible orator with no charisma. With any luck, he won’t energize people in nearly the same way.

Sorry to the rest of the world that uses a more sensible date formatting.

Counter-point: If you view 6/9 as a shortened form for 2023/6/9 instead of for 6/9/23, then it’s a perfectly sensible format. Year > month > day, it’s perfect! God loves it! It’s standard!