Yeah. It’s bad out there.

I’m a fan of Podverse. It has a few limitations that annoy me a bit, but I still pay $18 annually for the Premium features.

Fixed

All I really need is the ability to do voice calls and screen shares.

Have you looked into Jitsi?

I don’t know what this means

This is really bad. Mostly because there’s nothing to be done other than shutting down any of the affected processors until some time in the fall.

Try these questions about sources of recent information that you believe are accurate.

The month to month contracts for streaming content will go away soon.

In 40 minutes or less?

It seems like you don’t want to understand.

The first problem is that Beehaw can barely handle the load it has now, if you connect it to 100 million people and just one post or comment gains traction, Beehaw gets the experience of an accidental DDoS attack.

There are many other technical and social issues that will be created. Some of which have easy solutions some of which may not have any solutions at all, none of which I want to deal with.

I think the worst application of chat bots is when they replace a form that is served on a webpage. I don’t know why anyone thinks this is a good idea but I’ve seen it a lot.

When have people been able to tell the difference?

Because it will create more problems than I want to deal with.

It seems like they reached out to the largest Mastodon instance admins and got a cold reception, so they didn’t bother to incorporate activity pub into the initial release. Now that they have more registered accounts in 24 hours than all of Mastodon instances combined, I don’t think they’ll care.

You had me until the last sentence.

Any opinions on the culture that has developed since yesterday is premature at best.

On the technical side they had over 1 million accounts register in 24 hours. The site didn’t crash. That’s impressive.

I’m assuming that it will never federate with activity pub, I hope I’m correct.

Firefox:

• uBlock Origin (uBO) - The internet is basically unusable without this. {GPLv3}
• Dark Reader - I like using dark themes and I hate when I get blasted with a light theme when I visit a site. This keeps that to a minimum. {MIT}
• Firefox Multi-Account Containers - It’s nice to keep things separated. {Mozilla Public License Version 2.0}
• Consent-O-Matic - Automatically marks my saved cookie preferences on consent pop ups. This is a great tool to help counter to the dark patterns related to GDPR, but it isn’t perfect. {MIT}
• NoScript - I don’t like giving blanket permission to run JavaScript in my browser. This let’s me choose. {GPLv3}
• Wayback Machine by Internet Archive - Archives the sites I visit automatically and provides a one click option to visit an archived version of a URL that returns 404. Proprietary I don’t know of any alternatives
• Tampermonkey - There are a few very useful scripts that I run periodically. Tampermonkey keeps them organized and easy to run. Proprietary I don’t know of any alternatives
• Reddit Enhancement Suite - I got a lot of value from this extension over the years, but I don’t know how much value it has going forward for me {GPLv3}