This is why I gtfo when Elon took over. I knew something like this would happen.

Something both parties can agree on.

You are correct in principle, but Lemmy isn’t on a blockchain. It’s much less permanent.

Exactly. If I want to subscribe to a group (sublemmy?) that isn’t on my home instance, then I have to search for it from my home instance and then click the “Subscribe” button. This is a somewhat painstaking process, but there’s no reason that I can see why that couldn’t be streamlined.

Lawyers and biologists?

In theory, Bluesky is supposed to be immune to that due to it being open source. In practice, I don’t know what that would look like. The architecture seems to be much less decentralized than ActivityPub (which is what Mastodon uses).

They just go where the money is, and if that means going to a dictator, that’s what they’ll do.

But Plushtodon is fren for Blahaj

I think fascists idolizing the Roman Empire goes back as far as Mussolini. The fasces, after which fascism is named, was a Roman symbol.

If you mean somebody, somewhere is footing the bill, then sure, if you torture the definition of “free” enough, then nothing on Earth is free. It is worth pointing out that if you enjoy (for example) Wikipedia, then you should donate if you can, because Wikipedia runs on donations. If you’re just trying to be a pedantic jackass, though, that’s another thing.

But up until recently, Twitter used the blue checks to verify identity. Bluesky (as far as I know) doesn’t verify anyone’s identity. Instead, your domain name is your verification.

Here you go:

At Meta’s annual Connect event in Menlo Park, Calif., Zuckerberg wore a custom T-shirt with the Latin phrase “aut Zuck aut nihil,” or “all Zuck or all nothing,” as he revealed the first working prototype of Meta’s augmented-reality glasses.

The phrase was a play on “aut Caesar aut nihil,” which means “either a Caesar or nothing,” or more simply “all or nothing.”

Zuckerberg has long been interested in the Roman Empire. He spent his honeymoon in Rome and two of his children, August and Aurelia, are named after emperors Augustus and Marcus Aurelius.

Incidentally, fascists tend to have a hard-on for ancient Rome, but I’m sure that’s just a coincidence.

I’m sorry Biden/Harris didn’t sweep us off our feet,

My sister in Satan…they enabled a genocide.

but we deserve this.

You do. I don’t.

100% of XHTML will work in HTML5.

I remember when XHTML was supposed to replace HTML. Everything was going to be standardized and web designers would run their HTML code against a validator…it was going to be glorious! And of course it never happened, because demanding that all websites conform to the XHTML standard would’ve broken a lot of websites.

So, HTML5 ate XHTML’s lunch because it was much more forgiving, and…oh yeah, you could watch videos and play games in it, too.

You know what helps a boycott? Protesting.

I like how you responded almost 3 months later and the content of your response has nothing to do with what I said.

It has been for several years now. I rarely use Google now, and when I do, I’m using it out of DuckDuckGo (!g)

What if it’s out of print?

It’s copyright, not copywrite—you know, the right to copy. Copywriting is what ad people do. And what does this have to do with the PATRIOT Act?