Notices by AkivaMCohen (akivamcohen@mastodon.sdf.org)

This is amazing https://profspeak.com/botched-what-mignogna-v-funimation-teaches-us-about-the-danger-of-attempting-to-rehabilitate-a-public-image-by-suing-for-defamation/

"If you just want this place to be Twitter why don't you just leave and go to Twitter"

Uh... My guy, the problem with Twitter that people flowing in now from Twitter have with it isn't its feature set.

It's that the place is now owned by a sociopathic toddler who enables bigots and trolls.

Could someone please tell the early adopters that reading toots whining about new people wanting features they enjoy is *at least* as annoying as reading toots repeatedly asking for features you don't want included?

So maybe instead of "how dare you want what you want," you could try to persuade people that actually what they want is a net negative?

Or, whatever, keep doing what you're doing. I'm sure that'll work

I'm sorry to break it to you, but quote toots *will* be a thing in the near future, whether you want them to be or not - because somebody else who does is going to take the time to code them into their own instance, and then people will vote with their feet. That's not a normative comment on whether or not it's a good thing, by the way. It's just the nature of the decentralized infrastructure that this place runs on. It's inevitable.

Latest big Twitter files drop: OMG, intelligence agencies are paying attention to things people say on social media!

Uh... No shit, guys? It would be a pretty massive dereliction of duty if they weren't

It's particularly rich (but entirely unsurprising) to see Republican politicians who insisted that it was perfectly fine to do lame duck judicial confirmations after the 2020 election insist that the incoming House ought to have a say on the budget bill because that's the "will of the people"