I see people losing their minds because Threads has, at least for some time, disconnected itself from mastodon.social.

It looks like it was a mistake.

This time.

If this is a surprise to you, you were not paying attention. I warned you exactly one year ago:

https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

This will happen again. This will, at some point, happen definitively.

The question is not "will it?" but "when?".

Small reminder: The Fediverse is more than Mastodon. Mastodon is more than mastodon.social.

This train platform in #Japan's Yamaguchi Prefecture has no ticket booth, no entrance or exit.

Why does it exist?

🇯🇵🚉🧵

Block ChatGPT from scraping your website by blocking its IP ranges (not asking via robots.txt).

https://sizeof.cat/post/block-chatgpt-scraping/

Can confirm that it works. 🙂