Has Trump announced his candidacy for Pope yet?
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Staff Chief of JointsGonna have to change the band name to Huey Lewis & The Holy Shit What The Fuck.
I hope Europe and Canada don't go down the same path as the UK here.
I also hope that "we" (as in, folks who build and care about small, independent online communities) can step up to the plate – both in terms of ensuring regulation supports _actually_ good outcomes AND in terms of building meaningful approaches to online safety.
It's easy to blame the UK government for being incompetent nitwits for writing the horrendous Online Safety Act (https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/14/online_safety_act/) that strengthens monopolies with the resources to implement it and weakens small communities without those same resources.
But this is all according to plan for Meta/Facebook et al. It's regulatory capture in action. It's way cheaper to kill your competition with regulation than to buy it, especially when it's decentralized.
Dan SinkerHas Trump bought his Tesla yet?
JA WestenbergElon Musk wants you to think Republicans, X, and the assholes wrecking the planet and crushing the vulnerable are punk rock.
They’re not.
The open web is punk rock.
Decentralization is punk rock.
Billionaire bootlicking? That’s just embarrassing.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/big-tech-wants-you-trapped-the-open-web-sets-you-free-2/
Big Tech Wants You Trapped. The Open Web Sets You Free
Big Tech designed their platforms to keep you trapped. YouTube, X, Instagram, and TikTok aren't neutral spaces. They're businesses built on capturing your attention and data. Their algorithms, notification systems, and content policies all serve one purpose: keeping you engaged on their terms. And their terms alone. There's no freedom
First person to become a trillionaire wins a bullet in the brain.
Sorry, I don't make the rules! (I'm a prison abolitionist and would never condone capital punishment, let alone cold-blooded murder)
In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-02-23-dale/
The social media billionaires want us to believe their putrid platforms are the “new town squares.”
That their half-baked social videos and for-you feeds have replaced the agora.
And that, somehow, we’re all better for it.
It’s the most overused, meaningless claim on the Internet.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-false-promise-of-digital-public-squares-was-always-a-scam/
The False Promise of Digital Public Squares Was Always a Scam
The Ancient Greek agora was a place where students and citizens could freely gather, give speeches, engage in debate, and challenge each other. Yes, it was a marketplace, a commercial hub where merchants sold goods from permanent shops (stoas) and temporary market stalls. But it was so much more—a
wakestToday @fedify launched an @opencollective to support the project.
@hongminhee has been doing amazing work on it.
Fedify has shown itself to be one of the most promising ways for other projects to become part of the #fediverse. If you liked seeing Ghost (@index) make such fast progress bringing in potentially thousands (millions?) of blogs and newsletters to the fediverse, this is what they are using behind the scenes! So lets support this project together!
https://opencollective.com/fedify
@hongminhee has been doing amazing work on it.
Fedify has shown itself to be one of the most promising ways for other projects to become part of the #fediverse. If you liked seeing Ghost (@index) make such fast progress bringing in potentially thousands (millions?) of blogs and newsletters to the fediverse, this is what they are using behind the scenes! So lets support this project together!https://opencollective.com/fedify
