I had my first real-life encounter with gen z slang on Halloween when a trick-or-treater said to me -- and I am not making this up -- "skibidi toilet to your brother"
The fact that Mullenweg keeps harping on #WPEngine’s lack of upstream contributions — something that is by no means required by anybody using #WordPress — demonstrates how weak he knows the copyright claim is.
If it were a strong case, he could just quietly file the cease and desist and not go on and on about the values of open source, which are irrelevant to whether a copyright has been violated.
Regarding those false Beyoncé rumors, I’ve always suspected “Angry Staffer” is some dude in Indiana cosplaying a White House staffer under Trump to gain a social media following by pretending to confirm with first-hand accounts the things people want to believe about Trump and his White House — political porn for gullible middle-aged MSNBC viewers who own The West Wing on DVD.
@Raccoon@jaz@jerry@jztusk@Crell The refrain of “allowlists/blocklists are bad because it means you won’t hear from me” misses the point: This is why they are GOOD.
People don’t have a “right” to talk to your instance, this is a privilege that should be EARNED. And the protection of vulnerable people on social media is more important than my ability to make sure they can see my dumb posts.
This is not antithetical to the Fediverse. Choosing which instances to federate with is central to it!
@Raccoon@jaz@jerry@jztusk@Crell Because I am not among a group that is a frequent target of abuse, I have the privilege of enjoying the benefits of being on an “open” instance without having to worry about the drawbacks. I will probably always prefer to be on an instance that is blocklist-based instead of allowlist-based. But many people do not have that privilege.
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