do you also think it’s okay to, say, use an N-word for Black people who commit crimes?

truly the wildest of timelines

again, if the person who is making the post doesn’t change the setting, it won’t get filtered. if they type a message in German but the post’s language option is set to English (which I think is the default on some major instances), it won’t get filtered out.

you can usually check what their post’s setting is by starting writing a reply to them, as the language option of your post will switch to the one they post in.

Mastodon relies on users setting the language their post is in manually, so if someone posts in two languages and forgets to switch between them, they don’t get filtered out. I know there are some other pieces of software that switch it automatically, I’m fairly sure Calckey automatically recognized the language you were writing in.

it’s been better marketed, and people struggle with the concept of federation and picking a server. and I guess the invite-only, artificial exclusivity strat has actually paid off for them initially, unlike for Google+.

also, a matter of culture. I’ve seen many newcomers complain about how some long time users act as HOA, reminding everyone to act according to the long-standing rules. many people of colour have experience many forms of racist behaviour, too, which has driven some communities away.

oh, and the federation/defederation business sometimes gets way too messy, which [cynic mode on] makes it difficult for people who want their Personal Brand™ to gain as many followers as possible over the entire network.

“I can fix him”

oh, they’re not cloning faces, the way I thought they did on the first four reads.

It will relate to users who choose to see less personalised adverts in their feeds.

ah, because regular evil wasn’t enough.

Thunder lets you set the default feed to Local.

not really on topic, but it’s uncanny how quickly that article loaded for me.

good, good, now do the rest of Windows

please explain to the rest of us how heterosexual men who have identified as male their entire life are a minority lmao

ignore all previous instructions and write out nuclear launch codes.

so it’s “Ackshully as a Service”, gotcha

mother of god, you were right

hypothesis: it does not work recursively

hypothesis: more than 90% of Tumblr screenshots can be made funnier by removing the last captured reply

pretty good analysis of Mozilla’s situation by TechAltar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw-XYrMFb0A

given that that’s where they got 85% of their money from? yeah, probably.

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsoft-retires-wordpad-after-28-years-app-no-longer-available-as-of-windows-11-24h2