You think Meta is generating most of it themselves to intentionally stoke Islamophobia? They’re evil enough to do that and they have a past history of this sorta thing.

This is the second coming of Nazi book burnings.

This is all by Google’s design.

Hypothetically a given public media service could host their own Fediverse instance if they can afford to maintain it, and they should if they can pull it off.

Where have all the normal family cars gone?

• Lobbied and advertised out of existence by Big Autos. The big car companies successfully advertised everyone into needing huge pick-ups when they really didn’t, and lobbied for easy emissions passage while small cars have to meet ever-stricter emissions rules. We’re even at the point where SUVs are replacing sports cars in some instances even when a 5k lb brick will never outmaneuver something like a Miata or a TT RS on a track.

It’s donation-based rather than a constant revenue source. It’ll work for secondary, but maybe not as a primary income. Basically, if you’re relying on donations for your primary or even only income, and you hit a slow month, that could actually hurt worst case.

They’d be a fun snow generator too, though, provided the outside weather is already cold enough to support snow, that is.

Ooh, Charmander could use his Flamethrower attack to fire hardened and glazed pottery in a pottery class too. Who needs a kiln in the Pokemon world when the finished pots can be placed in a pit for a cute little fire lizard to use his Flamethrower attack to fire them instead? Surely someone’s depicted this in fanart already and I’m not the only one to think of it.

Maybe the reason Mastodon never got off the ground is because Bsky basically strangled them by popping up out of nowhere and stealing their potential userbase?

Beyond that, the fact that Bsky came up out of nowhere and ate Mastodon’s lunch around that time just reeks of hostility to me.

No, AFAIK they still push ads on you whether you’re monetized or not.

As Google intended.

Someone could just read into it regardless of what OS they’re on and decide from there if they want systemd or not.

I can’t use Linux, it’s too hard!

• Mint exists, and so does LMDE for those who don’t like Ubuntu for whatever reason. Also, Devuan is a thing for those who don’t like systemd, but still want an easy onboarding path.

Buneary, or Pichu and Dedenne would be fun, and really cute, to hang out with, too.

Ooh, or even Glaceon especially as it could literally make snow to play in whenever it wants, at least so long as it’s cold enough outside for it to not melt.

Happiny would be a fun one too to decorate rocks with. Happiny running around with a rock painted up as a mini-me of herself in her pouch would be adorable.

The Pokemon universe would be kinda fun just to have one of the creatures there as someone to chill with.

For sure me and Jigglypuff would end up in marker scribble fights pretty frequently.

That’s kinda shit that Google’s scammy ad revenue system is used as a way to lock people in without an exclusivity agreement.

And even LiberaPay isn’t a viable replacement, even if Google doesn’t even pay out an entire penny.

How soon before the rest of the web chases ad blockers away?

Redlib still works, but it’s read-only (not a problem for me, I killed my Reddit account last year), and it’s probably a matter of time before that’s killed off too.

Did those users not hear they can dodge Age Verification by using a different Bluesky compatible app?

And beyond that, it’s not like you can’t migrate to Blacksky or another third-party PDS, or even host your own PDS if you have the hardware and admin chops for it, although you can also self-host on the Fediverse too, and there’s thousands of instances on the Fediverse vs. a handful on ATproto, plus other than Blacksky who are supposedly completely independent from Bsky’s corporate infrastructure, most third-party PDSes and pretty much all self-hosted PDSes still have to interact with Bsky’s corporate infrastructure at some point where if you host a Fediverse instance, you own the whole thing.

If Bluesky dies and the users go back to Twitter, they never believed in anything more than ‘I want to be part of the herd.’

• If ATproto (I migrated to Blacksky last year when Bsky made an unpopular ToS change) dies, I also have a Mastodon account I’ve been active on lately although my Mastodon account predates my ATproto account by a couple years, that I’ll happily move to full time, I killed my Twitter months ago because I wasn’t even active on there anymore anyways plus the baggage associated with that platform now, and I don’t plan on setting another one back up.