Scott

@sbnicholas
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the purpose of a system is what it does
Apple's App Store Review is dumb, mismanaged, and capricious; but Tim Cook could drive over and personally punch DHH in the nutsack and my only response would be, "fairโ€.
it's genuinely wild how we heard nothing but long winded platitudes on how innovative silicon valley was for like 20 straight years and it's all culminated in a bunch of the dullest, most petulant billionaires imaginable all just copying each other's version of a very basic chat app

So Jason Gilbert has Threads absolutely nailed.

https://jogblog.substack.com/p/facebooks-threads-is-so-depressing

Facebook's Threads is so depressing

Like a $19 turkey sandwich at an airport

JOG Blog

Star Trek: Website now has its own Mastodon account!

https://tenforward.social/@TrekSite

#StarTrek #StarTrekWebsite

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195 Posts, 11 Following, 320 Followers ยท Official Mastodon account for StarTrek.website Lemmy instance, home of StarTrek, DaystromInstitute and Risa. Follow for official instance news and announcements from #StarTrekWebsite

Ten Forward
are negative integers whole numbers in the mirror universe
@christianselig I'm in the market for a new mousepad. Any mousepads in the Apollo merch menagerie?

Today
* Reddit ends free API access.
* Twitter turns off anonymous reading.
* Youtube is talking about banning ad-blocking users.

The tech industry was living on cheep money and low interest rates, and now they're all afraid to let their precious content get used for AI training.

The walls are going up, the lawful corporate web is collapsing in on itself.

We're thrilled to see that c/startrek at https://startrek.website/ has reached the 5000 subscriber milestone in just under three weeks! We would love to see more Trekkies of all stripes joining the discussions in c/startrek, c/daystrominstitute, and c/risa!

#StarTrek #StarTrekWebsite

Star Trek Website - A Lemmy instance operated by ex-Reddit moderators from the StarTrek, Risa, and Daystrom Institute communities

Lemmy

"REddit OWnS THEir WeBSite theY HaVe a rigHT TO maKe a pRofit oFf IT"

how do you even get the boot that far back??

๐Ÿ’œ A love letter to the lost places of the internet, and a call to action to never stop building these places, again and again. ๐Ÿ’œ

๐ŸŒป Yesterday, I read this beautiful essay by @catvalente.

I might have cried just a little, but don't tell anybody. ๐Ÿฅฒ

https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start

Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media

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