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Reasons to be Cheerful – news site founded by David Byrne
Reasons to be Cheerful – news site founded by David Byrne
Also won’t there will be an fragmentation of users issue?
when you can follow, subscribe to, post to, or comment on any community on any instance, there’s no fragmentation
when followers know there are plenty of options, it also prevents any single community from becoming too big or overbearing – and since the instances are all privately owned, the only thing you gain by growing your community bigger than everyone else is increased server load
“I’m not mad, I’m just … disappointed.”
(sad part is even if they sold out, they’d still be leagues ahead of the compromises Firefox and Chrome have made)
from the FAQ
Amazon did more for killing off small businesses – the big box store chains did more for killing off shopping malls (their preference is the strip mall where they can showcase their entire frontage (and do an end-run around building codes))
and yes, everyone is too broke on top of everything else
sponsored by Raytheon and [Redacted]’s Child Hunting Island
the products and services sponsoring today’s show? they definitely won’t sell your kidneys, you have our word on that!
forget Martha Stewart – but Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson as heads of the DEA and FDA
Robert Evans – writer, comedian, conflict journalist, podcaster – Cracked, Bellingcat, Behind the Bastards, did a podcast from Rojava, and reported live from Portland’s George Floyd protests
no love for RISC-V?
it was clearly a feature
gin and tonic – safe, easy to make (doesn’t piss off the bartender), and isn’t sickly sweet