Doug Holland

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Oh man, I miss Loompanics.

the very real possibility of police shutting them down

Has this “very real possibility” happened to any social media platform in America?

Skepticism-deprived people — eager to believe and spread obvious untruths like what you’ve posted — are the biggest danger America faces.

Tried that, but unfortunately, I have a distinctive tattoo in a distinctive place.

Also (sorry, but old guy here) the nozzle sometimes unexpectedly sprays sideways. It’s no worry if you’re sitting down, but if you’re standing up you might’ve just wet your pants… or the pants of the unlucky schmoe at the neighboring urinal.

Gaza is like what, 4 square miles?

About 141 square miles.

Asleeped.

When it works?

Excellent questions, solid answers, both are appreciated, and I leave smarter than when I arrived. Thanks.

“Give them a shot first” is easy to say, but it’s hours or days of moderators and admins’ lives.

Your desire to “connect with pretty much everyone unless they were particularly problematic” is admirable,. Just remember, please, that the wider the gates are opened, the more idiots wander in and the more work for mods and admins.

After dealing with the first thousand or so idiots, you can smell 'em coming. I’m with the admins on this.

I dislike almost every Microsoft product, and always prefer the alternatives, but que sera sera. :) I don’t doubt that it works.

We’re required to use Microsoft Teams at my office, and oy, what an endless annoyance. If you’re in an MS environment all day, can you tell me how to make Teams understand that I’ve read something? All day every day, any time there’s a message in Teams, I spend five seconds reading it, then ten seconds trying to get Teams to stop marking it “unread.”

Agreed about Firefox, except I love it so much I haven’t given up on it. I just can’t. Been using Firefox since 1957. When a site doesn’t work, I jump to Chrome and it’s almost invariably OK. Only a slight hassle, plus that I hate Chrome too.

Maybe some people can read a book and listen to music at the same time, but I’m not smart enough. The music bleeds into the book, and it becomes Treasure of the Sierra Madre with Pink Floyd, which is completely different from Treasure of the Sierra Madre, if you catch what I drop.

Threads is not involved at all with the Fediverse, but Facebook/Instagram/Threads top schmuck Zuck says he wants Threads intertwined.

Let’s hope he’ll be shown the door and booted. His only goal would be to monetize us.

Ah, you’re probably right. I mostly hate Edge because I never chose it, downloaded it, or installed it, and of course it can’t be deleted. It triggers all my “intruder alerts”.

I have used it some at work, and hate it, but that’s mostly because work wouldn’t let me install adblockers.

They make money off the posts. If they suck in federated posts, they can monetize them.

Trump cannot possibly be sentenced to prison. He can and does deserve it, but it’s utterly impossible. Might as well wonder how high could pigs fly if pigs could fly.

In no sense is Edge is a good browser. It is built for ads and tracking, and makes surfing the web inherently unpleasant.

This is good to know and could be something I’d use a lot, but it isn’t working. Every Reddit address I try it on, the reply is “Nothing here. Head back home?”

Does the page need to be pre-prepared, like a web.archive.org address?