Well that’s enough internet for today. Geeze. So glad these people are being tracked down so they can be brought to justice.

I think as an end user of a platform like reddit, it’s easy to just want to browse a site and look at some interesting content when you have a few minutes downtime and not think much of it. The vast majority of people on the site aren’t even really contributing to content in any way. I barely ever did until hearing about the fedverse.

What got me to care and take the effort to start up here wasn’t even really the recent reddit move specifically, like sure this was a crappy thing to do on their part and they’ve done a lot of bad stuff before too. But it was seeing all these social media platforms and web services in general go one after the other becoming worse and worse for the users and ever more invasive. I think it’s just clear now that a centralized social media isn’t sustainable and going to work, and will always have that end result.

What’s so appealing about the fedverse is I think it’s a model for how these problems can be avoided and services can still go forward. I think the best we can do is be active on the fedverse, make it an appealing place to be by contributing, with programming skills if we have them or fresh content if we don’t, and continue to point out how these big web companies continue to fail us.

Archive links get rid of the paywall but it doesn’t play nice with some dns settings apparently. Here is the actual link but it does have the paywall: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/19/business/gop-disinformation-researchers-2024-election.html:

This is a really interesting finding. There’s precedence too. Pelvic inflammatory disease, classically caused by sexually transmitted bacterial infections like chlamydia or gonorrhea, is associated with a higher risk of developing endometriosis. There also does appear to be a genetic component, but that might have to do with determining how your body responds to infections in a way that’s more likely to cause endometriosis. Hopefully finding this new bacterial association can lead to more treatment options.

Yeah not sure what that headline is about, I enjoyed splatoon and thought it was a pretty unique game. More games in the genre is good, spurs innovation and new ideas. No sleep lost unless someone has some toxic brand loyalty. I hope this game does well.

Well I did use sync, now using jerboa of course. Would be neat if sync or other apps could be remade for the fedverse. An app that could bridge different fedverse apps more easily like lemmy and mastadon for instance but keep everything easily readable and sortable would be cool.