Each participant is sent a separate copy of each message encrypted with their own key.

Does the fact that American “conservative” politicians are lying about it make it an invalid position to take?

I learned about it looking through lists of projects using ActivityPub. Decentralized Reddit seemed like a good idea, so I checked out the dev-operated lemmy.ml and found little other than far-left and CCP-sympathetic politics. There was maybe one other operational server I could find, and it was pretty dead. I stuck it in the back of my mind as something to check out again later to see if things changed.

Reddit pissed a bunch of people off, and I saw that the team behind the generally well-regarded mastodon.world was spinning up a Lemmy server, so I joined it and started participating regularly.

The AI thing I’d really like is an on-device classifier that decides with reasonably high reliability whether I would want my phone to interrupt me with a given notification or not. I already don’t allow useless notifications, but a message from a friend might be a question about something urgent, or a cat picture.

What I don’t want is:

• Ways to make fake photographs
• Summaries of messages I could just skim the old fashioned way
• Easier access to LLM chatbots

It seems like those are the main AI features bundled on phones now, and I have no use for any of them.

There is a chance that I just don’t get microblogging. I’ve always felt that short character limits encourage people to make bad points that resonate emotionally but fall apart when thought through, and to yell at people they disagree with rather than being thoughtful.

I think the idea that forced brevity is an important component of microblogging is mistaken. Low friction to post, minimal formatting, and (optionally) collapsed long posts in feeds all encourage short posts without requiring them.

It might have served more of a purpose when Twitter launched because people weren’t in the habit of short text posts at the time, and because Twitter supported posting via SMS.

I don’t see value in a character limit other than whatever might be needed for technical reasons. Bluesky allows alt text for images to be 2000 characters, so clearly any technical limitations allow at least that much.

For those who prefer short text posts, hiding posts longer than a user-configurable setting behind a “see more” link would do.

Yet they still think it’s a good idea to limit text posts to 300 characters for reasons I cannot fathom.

And people wonder why I have no interest in getting a newer phone with an AI thing on it.

That’s good in theory, but a site behind Cloudflare won’t necessarily notice that a legitimate user got blocked. If you want them to care, you’ll have to find a way to contact them. For more impact, tell them which competitor you spent money with instead.

Depending on how the requirement to accept the ToS is implemented, a config file might be able to disable it and any features that depend on it.

Facebook was a mostly-harmless multimedia blog site before smartphones. Both its addiction algorithm and being in everyone’s pocket contribute to its current harms, but both would have happened even if Apple hadn’t made a phone.

Smartphones resembling what we have now would have come out of a likely Windows/Android rivalry. They might even still have headphone jacks.

There’s a small, but extremely loud segment of the Mastodon userbase that seems to view presenting public posts in any manner that’s different from how a vanilla Mastodon server does as an invasion of their privacy. There have also been a few projects that raised reasonable concerns about privacy and moderation, but this page doesn’t seem to make a distinction.

It appears to contain misinformation about FediFirehose, which ran client side and just showed the output of a public relay.

About 14. I’m not particularly price-sensitive about it given the absolute cost is low relative to many food options.

Eggs keep getting cited by people trying to blame their political opponents for increases in food prices because they have increased to about 2.5x from five years ago, which is a bigger increase than most foods. The bulk of the increase is due to the ongoing bird flu outbreak, but that fact doesn’t seem to have great distribution among the general public.

I missed that part. Thanks for the correction.

Looking at the court’s opinion (PDF), it appears this case did not raise that issue. I think it’s unlikely it would be considered a bill of attainder because what it does is technically not punishment, but that’s a question for people who know more about law than I do.

This is correct, but the law doesn’t do that. It mentions TikTok in the title, but the text describes what is banned in terms of user count and control by a foreign adversary. It would apply to a future product made by a Russian company, for example.

I’m really surprised they’re not pushing the web version, which can operate in a way not covered by this ban.

Most of them[1] know a whole lot more about constitutional law than the average lemming.

When things are working correctly, the Supreme Court’s role is usually not very concerned with the facts of the case; its role is to resolve questions of law. Congress considered the facts including some classified briefings, decided that American app stores should be forbidden from distributing TikTok to American users, and made a law. The court was asked whether Congress has the authority to make laws like that, and the court decided that it does.

[1] Maybe not Clarence Thomas

I’m surprised they’re taking that approach rather than pushing the web version.

So can installing a faulty third-party cooling fan, but in the USA, the law requires the warranty provider to prove the fault was caused by improper maintenance or defects in third-party components.