There was the one case with the scammers in the UK using a homemade cell tower to essentially send out phishing texts directly to cell phones in an area, completely bypassing the phone company. It seems like this scare texts scenario would fit that kind of tech even better, as you only need to send out a message once to a large amount of people and you don’t need to collect information in response like in a phishing scenario.

Composable moderation/custom labeling and custom algorithmic feeds are two things that Mastodon doesn’t have that Bluesky does.

Another KOReader recommendation here. I typically use it on an eink device but also have it on my phone and it works well.

Looks like for syncing there’s a plugin:

https://github.com/koreader/koreader/wiki/Progress-sync

It’s not like police can legally lock you up because they thought you were going to do drugs in the future.

Uh… that does happen for some at least:

Pregnant women were jailed over drug use to protect fetuses, county says

Opposition to Criminalization of Individuals During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period

The best response that I’ve seen to this so far is this video of a former student speaking to the school board:

Bridget, our first ever interaction was when you retweeted a hate article about me from The Nationalist while I was a Sarasota County school student. You are a reminder that some people view politics as a service to others while some view it as an opportunity for themselves. On this board you have spent public funds that could have been used to increase teacher pay to change our district lines for political gain, remove books from schools, target trans and queer children, erase black history, and elevate your political career, all while sending your children to private schools because you do not believe in the public school system that you’ve been leading. My question is why doesn’t an elected official using our money to harm our students and our teachers for her gain seem to matter as much for us as her having a threesome does? Bridget Ziegler, you do not deserve to be on the Sarasota County School Board but you do not deserve to be removed from it for having a threesome. That defeats the lesson we’ve been trying to teach you which is that a politician’s job is to serve their community, not to police personal lives. So, to be extra clear: Bridget, you deserve to be fired from your job because you are terrible at your job, not because you had sex with a woman.

Closest to the original source I can find (referenced in numerous news articles): https://www.tiktok.com/@queenofhives/video/7313654227564383530

I don’t think there’s a lack of empathy, especially when you consider that we may be concerned for the more numerous viewers who could potentially see your comments if we help you bypass the filters that you seem to be running into more than just occasionally.

It’s not that they need to know that to provide a potential answer, it’s that they want to know that before they decide to help you bypass a filter.

I’m pretty sure people are focused on what the content is because they have reservations about helping someone bypass filters to post stuff that may be offensive enough to be deleted in the first place.

Uh, weren’t the pyramids built explicitly for the profit/benefit in the afterlife for those few rulers set to be entombed in them, at the cost of many human lives? I’m having a hard time thinking of something more self centered/personal profit focused right now.

I agree that the no algorithm hill gets annoying once you’re following enough people.

What I don’t understand is why they don’t setup something like Bluesky has where you can choose which algorithm you want, including those not made directly by the Bluesky team: https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/26/23739174/bluesky-custom-feeds-algorithms-twitter-alternative

One of those algorithms could just be a chronological feed that some people seem dead set on sticking with. Everyone can be happy.

Even votes aren’t private and an instance could be setup to collect that data and make it viewable.

The ability to easily link to a specific post or comment in a way that works across instances/clients, like you can with communities.

The law can come into effect whenever they want it to and the sites need to have their filtering systems ready and tested before that happens for them to be effective:

https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2023/08/the-bill-c-18-regulation-fake-out-setting-the-record-straight-on-when-bill-c-18-takes-effect-and-the-regulation-making-process/

Is monetization required for a site to qualify as a digital news intermediary though? It seems like there just needs to be an imbalance:

https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/44-1/bill/C-18/royal-assent

Application 6 This Act applies in respect of a digital news intermediary if, having regard to the following factors, there is a significant bargaining power imbalance between its operator and news businesses:

(a) the size of the intermediary or the operator;

(b) whether the market for the intermediary gives the operator a strategic advantage over news businesses; and

(c) whether the intermediary occupies a prominent market position.

What happens when a Lemmy instance gets too big?

The names are public. Per Georgia Code Title 17. Criminal Procedure § 17-7-54 it looks like they’re spelled out as part of the standard form that indictments take. Addresses aren’t that hard to get once you know the name.

It isn’t even like we’re dealing with hashtags being polluted/not specific enough. It’s a community name, not a topic name, and the rules for the community have been set by the current mods to be just US politics. The solution for those who want world politics is to subscribe to the various communities dedicated to it that exist on multiple instances.

Isn’t the whole point of the public domain that anyone can make use of them and everyone can benefit from various creative uses of them without needing to pay/ask permission? While I may not be a fan of the person benefiting here, this seems like a normal use of public domain works.