Zulip is a wonderful blend of the good old forums' ability to keep information accessible, and Discord's fast-paced formula; the way it's organised and displayed to the user is fairly unique and slightly alien, but it presents an amazing opportunity to sort and organise the discussions in your community space.

You know how the Discord threads are kind of useless?

Zulip puts threads, or "topics", front and centre - when you click on a channel, you end up browsing the most recently active topic, and see a list of other available topics. You can start and archive topics as you see fit. Archived and resolved topics are out of the way, but still accessible rather than getting lost under piles of fresh messages.

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Apparently part of "Take Back Control" means that there's going to be Spanish guards checking _all_ passports in Gibraltar, even if you never set foot in Spain 😆

And on top of that, Gibraltar is joining the customs union and aligning import taxes with Spain. We might as well just give it back at this point 😆

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgjz1x5e1xyo

#Brexit #TakeBackControl

https://youtu.be/V4SV9NDs6iM

you DO NOT own windows

windows OWNS you

#takebackcontrol

#climateaction on #bigtech shit

#climatechange

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I think I'm off to a good start for the new year...

What does it mean when your fortune cookie doesn't contain any fortune at all?

Should I be worried?
Or maybe I should take it as a sign that it's true what they say: you are the creator of your own happiness! So let's do it, here I come, 2026!

#fortune #cookies #emptiness #happiness #takebackcontrol #independence #happynewyear #2026

Feeling late to the punch with creating an account here, as the alternative, non-federated options grow more and more invasive/toxic/propagandized each day.

A worthy sentiment for our first post:

The best time to create an account way from the control of the tech elite was when we found out there was an alternative. The second best time was right now, so here we are 🤘

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