@union Weird, a US veteran I know uses that name, B+Pos for Be Positive, his first initial is B though.
@TechConnectify @eukara Google did that with RSS, they embraced it, kept adding stuff until they had everyone on their service and away from other rss services, then they killed it and tried to force everyone over to their closed system. It's happened over and over again with open standards and companies making their own enhanced versions.
@TechConnectify @eukara I'm personally not opposed to growth, but suspicious of a company that will do the old "Embrace Extend Extinguish" routine.
@beej I took the other way out and put my $8 per month into running an instance. Just a micro-instance though.
@beej @Texan_Reverend @Graham_LRR If it's an individual user, it would be blocking. If it's an entire instance, it would be defederating.
@gamingonlinux @eniko I lucked out and was already entirely off twitter by the time they decided to flip the switch from blow (investor money) to suck (money in for investor.) It'd probably be best for each developer to just have their own bloody RSS feed for the news sites to follow for their press releases and information.
@union @BobsonDugnuttHB True, but it's also going to be a target before Romania proper, since it already has the start of the invasion force inside of it. Of course, to close off the geographic gaps, they'll need that one valley from Romania too.
@union @BobsonDugnuttHB I don't think that's how that works. I think they're preparing for war because they think Russia won't be satisfied with just Ukraine, and they'll want to push as close to their cold war borders as possible, which means taking the Baltics, Poland, Moldova and part of Romania.
@gamingonlinux https://www.nerfnow.com/img/3177/4775.png Masto/fediverse can be really bad at image links and embeds...
@gamingonlinux I don't get the RAAAA part, much better to just mock them for it. https://images-ext-1.discordapp.net/external/QBX3zJyKGhjpOzoG65i68mYI6f_H96Px7qtd5LWtrcI/https/www.nerfnow.com/img/3177/4775.png?width=675&height=869
@Cheeseness @SallyMonster Who has two thumbs and will totally mess you up if you approach his territory? This bird!
@requiem Most of the time at those events, the cell towers in the area get overloaded, and so do all the wifi, so be prepared to be severely throttled on the bandwidth.
@benjedwards The Lunduke podcast mentioned it as a negative, that basically if everyone is wearing this we'll never be looking at anyone's real eyes again.
@zaitcev I imagine one of those expiration dates is "when China is dumb enough to invade Taiwan, because the US will be shifting everything to the pacific when that happens."