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   受不了包 (shibao@misskey.bubbletea.dev)'s status on Thursday, 26-Feb-2026 15:16:48 JST 受不了包

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   @p@fsebugoutzone.orgif you look, all of the "social media" companies have DoD tiesi think i first learned about this when I was in middle or high school, and it was fascinating to me. it's such a history hidden in plain site, and the published memoirs are fascinating. and it can't be understated how interesting that it extends to almost every single social media platform they are using as well. it makes me think of a lot of enterprise business hidden behind the veneers of the public offerings, how much of facebook's apparatus dedicated to not just fbi compliance, but like legal and financial compliance for third world shitholes? how much of it was dedicated to bribing those officials? it is not out of the question that they might have had personal corporate entourages, and things like that fascinates me.So I view it as the embers being stoked rather than dying outi'm confused how you can take this view immediately after describing an entire natural flourishing of social media formats being co-opted and whitewashed by political machinations. embers needing to be stoked implies that they are dying out, and stoking implies that new material is added, i am pretty sure this is not the case, except maybe idk, vine and tiktok. tiktok is just a happenstance chinese copy of vine which was snuffed out before it could even really hit escape velocity. i'm not even sure we will even get another geniuinely inspired social media format, the latest batch (threads, periscope, etc) has been completely co-opted and guaranteed their failures from the start. all new potential social media will be regressive unless the entire apparatus reverses, which is guaranteed not to happen. that is not to say there will never be new value provided by innovative new social media sites like farcaster or something (if it even counts lmfao), but by definition of always remaining fringe from now on, is categorically regressive.These are the things people concerned themselves with before everyone got extremely literal-minded, intolerant of ambiguity, and also grandiosei'm not sure i share this perspective, i think they moved on from places that you could bring yourself to look. the youths are still alive and well in their tiktok microcommunities, twitter niches, and discord servers. but they suck to be in and you are completely justified to disregard these. however, they still exist.I view boomers as the aberrant form and I think culture is healingmost definitely. however, my awareness of even my own generation is greatly distorted because i am not very aware of the undercurrent of my generation that has degraded to neetdom in their parents houses, and whatnot. i hear about them a lot through secondhand circumstances though. i just never come into contact with them for some reason (i know the reason).they didn't really pass it downbut this is the point, they wouldn't need to pass it down if the flame was still present, i think is my proposal
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   Random Weirdo (she/her) (sci_fi_fangirl@hessen.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Feb-2026 19:54:43 JST Random Weirdo (she/her)

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   And it happens now and then that they need sth urgently and I have to buy it or they won't have it.

   Yesterday, K1 (16) and K2 (14) asked me to buy new clothes. I said it was Dad's job. They said he always tried to push them to buy things the don't like and would rather do it with me.

   So, I have to choose the lesser evil: not do it, have them complaining about it and resulting in me having to do more laundry, or tell my husband to do it and hope for the best, or just doing it.

   2/3

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   dansup (dansup@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Feb-2026 21:41:32 JST dansup

   As much as I'd love Loops to go viral, I'm really glad it hasn't yet.

   Last year, Pixelfed went viral, less than a week after shipping our mobile apps.

   It was a very stressful time that I had to balance moderation, devops/SRE, backend dev and mobile dev, and that was before we had a team, it was just me.

   So now, I've prepared a game plan to handle this a bit better, across the roles and with a more efficient/scalable backend.

   Not ready yet, but I will be soon. 🚀

   #Loops #LoopsDev #LoopsBTS

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   Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 07-Feb-2026 00:08:51 JST Cory Doctorow

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   But then my kid applied to university and was told that she should sign up for FASFA, which is the federal student loan and grant process; she got pretty good grades and there was a chance she could get a couple grand knocked off her tuition. Seemed like a good idea to me.

   So we filled in the FASFA paperwork, and partway through, it asks if you are a naturalized citizen, and, if you are, it asks you to upload a copy of your certificate of citizenship.

   10/

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   maique :prami: (maique@social.lol)'s status on Thursday, 29-Jan-2026 18:28:42 JST maique :prami:

   @otaviocc As far as I could tell, it was launched just now, and they seem to be having issues with iOS login (needed to system integration). It worked just fine for me.

   So…. You’re still as sharp as before 😁

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   Artemis (artemis@dice.camp)'s status on Thursday, 29-Jan-2026 04:22:42 JST Artemis

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   His bio says "I say what’s on my mind. Here for real discussion, not performance." so yeah, he's here to just pick fights.

   He created this account yesterday & only has a few posts which are replies like the one he made to me.

   So he's someone who literally just made a new account to pick a fight.

   Yeah...blocked.