Oh, I didn't know about that history. I thought it all started with the Jordan Peterson interview.
Exactly. If I want to subscribe to a group (sublemmy?) that isn't on my home instance, then I have to search for it from my home instance and then click the "Subscribe" button. This is a somewhat painstaking process, but there's no reason that I can see why that couldn't be streamlined.
4 years isn't arbitrary; it's the soonest somebody can run for president.
At the speed this administration's moving, we might not even have 2 years. We need people who can move quickly, and right now we have people who are barely moving at all.
It's a picture with words on it. Of course it's a meme!
Trolling LinkedIn is really next-level.
Lawyers and biologists?
In theory, Bluesky is supposed to be immune to that due to it being open source. In practice, I don't know what that would look like. The architecture seems to be much less decentralized than ActivityPub (which is what Mastodon uses).
They just go where the money is, and if that means going to a dictator, that's what they'll do.
But Plushtodon is fren for Blahaj
It's even worse than that. He's lying. According to Vivian, he didn't give a shit that she was trans until he turned alt-right. Now he's trying to use that to score points with his new fanbase.
He didn't care about her pre-transition. He doesn't care about her post-transition. He doesn't care about a "woke mind virus". He's just doing the right-wing equivalent of virtue signaling. Vice signaling?
I think fascists idolizing the Roman Empire goes back as far as Mussolini. The fasces, after which fascism is named, was a Roman symbol.
I wasn't the one arguing that. Re-read the thread.