Notices by Steve Yelvington (steve@s.yelvington.com), page 2

The morning after Trump is found guilty of 34 felonies, his campaign claims they raised $34 million in donations from his moron army. Of course, that's a Trump business record, so, whatever.

Is the Earth's rotation speeding up or slowing?

So far, the only negative side effect I have seen of #threads supporting ActivityPub has been the whining and demands for preemptive censorship (from people who have more in common with the book burners than they realize).

I haven't seen a single objectionable post from Threads.

My hope is that I'll be able to delete my Threads account and follow those I care about from my Mastodon account. Mastodon gives me some decent tools for controlling what I see (lists, filters, blocks) and doesn't push me into an unwanted algorithmic feed. I have multiple UI options from both apps and the web.

I understand that any time a social space is opened up to new participants, it is disruptive. But I don't really care. If you want a private discussion space with a culture that you control, you should be using a closed forum. A federated open social network is not the best tool for all purposes.

"Folks say he’s old but I’d rather have a Moses than a Lucifer"

https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/biden-wins-south-carolina-presidential-primary/article_282b192c-c048-11ee-83f2-5ba952e6cfda.html#tncms-source=latest_posts

@emilygorcenski Tony La Russa once declared he wanted to punch in the nose the guy who wrote a sports headline he didn't like.

I was happy to be anonymous.

#Meta

Blocking all content from #Threads is a personal choice. (Any #Mastodon user can block everything from any domain.)

Demanding that all content from Threads be blocked by all instances for everyone (defederation) is Karenism.

Justifying it by claiming it's a threat to your culture ... well, I've heard that argument before.

See how easy it is to block a self-proclaimed shitposter? You just click on the three dots.

Any user can block any other user, or the entire domain (in this case, snowedin.town).

You kids complaining about student loans need to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and find a mysterious donor to pay off all your debts like a Supreme Court Justice.

"The account bans were labeled “direction of Ella” in Twitter’s internal systems, according to two former employees in contact with Twitter’s staff. Ella Irwin, the company’s head of trust and safety, has carried out many of Musk’s orders since he purchased the company in late October and began upending it rules in the name of what he called “free speech.”

"A prior suspension was marked “direction of Elon.”"

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