It’s not the unusable firehose that mastodon is, and it’s a lot less fediverse-stanny. (it’s not actually federated yet).

I kind of like it, it feels like the right level of engagement, and there’s a culture of just block the assholes, grownups are talking.

It’s worth a few days to try it out. Nice place.

Spoken like a person who isn’t forced to use JIRA

It was zero degrees today, and it’ll be twice as cold tomorrow.

“some protected characteristics”

Which would be what, exactly?

It’s almost like you need some of that damn Freeze Peach y’all are complaining so much about.

This is the reason it has to be non-negotiable. Yes, it’s expensive, in terms of a lot of people saying stuff you don’t want them to say. But in return, when people try to pull this shit, you get to laugh in their face and tell 'em go fuck themselves right in their ear.

And I don’t just mean the first-amendment narrow legal definition stuff in the US. I mean the much broader political principle that speech should not be restricted except in commission of a crime.

third party cookies != cookies

Unless they’ve invented a stateful http, cookies aren’t going anywhere.

He committed the ultimate crime, though: stealing from rich people. And he even had the effrontery not to be rich himself while doing it.

That’s what they’re punishing here.

paywall.