Significant W as of this week: 100% of @thetaggartinstitute's course material, including The Homelab Almanac, has been ported over to our new home on Discourse. Learners can enroll, study, connect with others, and even purchase the book for lifetime access—all from a self-hosted forum space.

If you want to see what a post-Discord, post hypercapitalization internet looks like, I invite you to join us. https://beta.taggartinstitute.org.

seeing another round of "don't favorite posts on fedi"

folks it is a kind and lovely thing to favorite someone's post and anyone who tells you not to be kind and lovely has told you something about themself

it's true that it doesn't particulary increase the distribution of your post but the idea that we're all here to get things distributed as far as possible is pretty weird

Instagram will remove end‑to‑end encrypted chats on May 8, 2026 🔓.

Without E2EE, private messages could become accessible for data analysis or AI training, raising serious privacy and user‑trust concerns 🤔.

🔗 https://proton.me/blog/instagram-end-to-end-encryption

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