Normally I would agree, but it's easy for kids to misinterpret the Bible. Most of the books that are banned as just stories. Sure, you can learn something from them, but they're not passed off as guides by which to live your life. When people take the Bible literally, it can lead to some nasty outcomes.

Shocked it took them this long. I guess they had to go through the motions.

Sorry if that came off as dismissive. Was just saying Lemmy/Kbin/Squabbles(?) apps are "so hot right now." Don't want to chase down every rumor until there's something more tangible than an "I'm doing this" post. I agree, it sounds great, though!

Maybe it’s the news outlets I frequent, but I haven’t read anything describing the protests as a failure. Anyone want to provide a source or two?

Just did.... actually lasted longer than I expected! Someone was removing all the community links and replacing them w/ the code repo links. Restored and cleaned up. The access is now comment only to anyone w/ a link.

Fair point. I'm keeping an eye on it right now. If it gets out of hand, I'll do that. Everyone seems to be behaving so far, though. Fingers crossed.

Well said. Boosted and upvoted... whatever those two things mean. Internet points to you, good sir!

I'll edit to add that the main thing you point out that I think most fediverse folks want to avoid is the investment that leads to the IPO bag of cash. When the incentive is profit, I think social media can only ever get worse for the average end user. Keeping these things small and non-corporate is great in theory, but who pays for the servers and other costs when/if it needs to scale?

Nice! Thanks!

I think helpful bots, like this one, are generally a good thing. However I also think there should be a way for a community, either an instance as a whole or a community/magazine, can register their dislike of particular bots and/or have a setting to block them. Right now, I really want to block the lemmit bot. I don't need or want my feed gummed up w/ Reddit reposts.

That's kind of the problem, though. That insane cash grab is profit driven. Spez said it himself in the AMA: Reddit is profit driven. That goes beyond makiong money to survive. That's investors seeing a return on their money. That's generating value in preparation fo that big IPO. That doesn't usually mix well with the way a site like Reddit generates value: free community created content. Right now, Reddit is banking on enough users not caring about the protest, or the fact that the site is arguably on a downward trajectory. Looking valuable is more important than being valuable at this point.

Thanks Jack Welch for that kind of mentality. I hope you're burning in Hell.

I'm surprised I don't see more of this. Especially given that they all use ActivityPub. I know kbin is different than Lemmy, but an "all-in-one" app would be great.

It still can be! ;-)

This is a fair assessment, but I would add that the host mentions that he’s a gun owner with a carry permit, and does from time to time point out the failures of the US political left. There is a bias, but I wouldn’t put him in the realm of Democracy Now!

That said, some of the episodes are great. I recently listened to the Jack Welch ones and loved them.

Thanks for the heads up, but right now that has to be considered a rumor. Until there's at least a community and/or repo, it's vaporware.

Agreed. So far, I think it's my favorite of of the dedicated apps. wefwef.app is also pretty good.

One-sided story, of course, but a response from other players would be interesting. Especially if any former players come out of the woodwork. I know the program had some issues in the past, as well.

Possibly a sensitive topic. Don't mean to spark a political debate. Personally, I like what schools like Stanford have done to allow qualified people who can't afford tuition to attend. I miss the days where tuition assistance was a fairly common part of benefits packages.

You're probably right, but unfortunately my day job doesn't like me spending all day tracking new apps! I threw this together this morning in the hope that it might help a bit. If there's a better way, and there probably is, anyone is welcome to tackle it.

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If I’m not mistaken, that’s how the federation works. If you’re the first on your instance to subscribe, you only see new posts. Do I have that wrong?

It's not. One of the remaining devs posted that they're working on getting a new Testflight invite going.