Yet again I'd like to remind people that if an email is required to join a service, LIKE MY PEERTUBE INSTANCE, then you may want to check your email to see if you were approved for that service.

Thank you.

Read her released texts, she was so personally scared to visit the Seattle Center shooting scene that imo that single FULLY solved crime truly did shake her.

She sent several texts asking if she would be "safe" visiting the crime scene HOURS later.

I and many other retail workers have literally had shootings occur at or near work and were back at work within minutes of the shooting ending... regardless of if the baddies were caught yet.

@mousey

@LinHead Dazu hat der erfahrene Betriebsrat immer den Fitting griffbereit. Der erklärt das ausführlichst ;)

Around the globe, Catholics mourn their loss.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:sk6jryjhuavqchpa53jlcsyu/post/3n22hp52duc25

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/37870004

reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).

the reason why this happened is because reddit is a for-profit company and tries to extract money out of the userbase, at the expense of the users.

another example of a bad decision that reddit made was to push a lot of ragebait (“Am I The Asshole?”) because company shareholders want to see “engagement numbers” go up, and if somebody writes an angry reply to a post, that’s “engagement”. but it makes you angry at the stupidity of the “Asshole”, so it makes your day worse. that is another example how reddit makes money at the expense of the users.

size (number of monthly active users) is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.

we should probably get rid of the “don’t make lemmy grow, it will ruin the platform if we grow” idea.

Wait, you mean you have your own personal preferences implemented on your own instance but don’t force those preferences onto others?

Amazing! Who would have ever guessed!?

@fesshole Interesting assumption that the digits are the first ones offered by the platform.

@Vox

people should be much more concerned about how much of what they pay for everything goes to create good paying jobs and not profits or executive salaries or taxes. that's affordability. the full picture. if things get expensive but most people make and keep more, that can be ok. same with government support for transportation or health care or education or housing. I don't care who does it, I care about how it affects most Americans.

@jamesb One time we bought a APS hard drive for our mac and it came with a bunch of shareware on it, and among this was a game named something called "Galaxica", and it had the *coolest* music. The music came out of a "mod file". I was so obsessed with this "mod file". I would open "Galaxica" and leave it running just to listen to the cool song in this game.

Then when I learned to drive, I turned on the car radio, and the Galaxica song was playing! It turned out it was "Blue Monday" all along

@AbandonedAmerica

This ship is two totally separate things.

One, an astonishing machine, the last of its kind, with capabilities that boggle the mind. It's sad to see it go, but its time clearly ended decades ago. Air travel killed any need for this machine almost overnight.

It's also a symbol of the excesses of the wealthy. Normal people could only get glimpses on special tour days; it was never for them. It wasted resources at an unbelievable rate to satisfy the rich.

1/2

It's great to see outlets like The Verge publish answers to questions and statements that are attributable to named spokespeople at the companies they represent. It's important for accountability and attribution for any story, but especially so when nuance matters. https://www.theverge.com/tech/1012372/tv-privacy-acr-questions

@evdelen https://evanp.me/pollfaq#itdepends

@CatsOverPeople unsere kommen angeblich morgen *hibber*

We sued for answers on Medicare's AI experiment. What we found were problems on top of problems.

Learn more with the latest EFFector newsletter and podcast: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/11/medicares-ai-experiment-effector-3820

Reddit was always shitty from when

• The only reason the jailbait sub came down was do to main stream media pressure - if you missed jailbait was a “SFW” sub for posting reveling photos of other people’s children to be gooned over. It was voted “Subreddit of the year” in 2008

• the mod who ran jailbait was an ICON on reddit for years and he also modded dozens of other equally questionable subs

• The insane redditor backlash to them banning FatPeopleHate sub - which for those who missed it was a sub dedicated to posting photos of overweight people without their knowledge so the internet could mock them. This was mostly made up of - yes you guessed it - mostly photos of fat women getting mocked.

• Leaving up the BeatingWomen sub that is specifically for posting videos of women getting beat up for 10+ more years after jailbait came down.

• leaving up the Creepshots sub, a sub dedicated to upskirt and down-shirt photos of unsuspecting women, for YEARS and only taking it down due to to it hitting the main stream news and forcing their hand. This sub was also modded by the Jailbait mod.

• the RAMPANT sexism and racism as thinly veiled intellectualism that has gone on for DECADES

• Ghislaine Maxwell was a moderator on worldnews - I cannot back this claim up so I am removing it.

The API thing and forced logins is probably one of the least shitty things this site has done.

@LucasWerkmeister

well, maybe cause you like the fediverse [this thing here] and want to support any fedi application or federate anything later.
The specs. are a relatively new outcome of the Social CG.