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i’ve always found mastodon unintuitive, mostly because older versions used to not have a “local” feed, only a global feed,

and i think a charm of the fediverse is to have local instances, like for specific topics. and they added that local feed recently, which i like

better on the can than on the can’t

u know what? maybe we should start actively advertising the fediverse in local hacker clubs and such.

oh yeah that makes sense, thanks

by the way, i’m curious, what does “reactionary” even mean?

is it re-action in the sense of acting again? is it reaction in the sense of responding to somebody else’s actions?

taxing wealth instead of work is also an economically sound decision if you want to boost productivity and your economy’s revenue.

As a general rule, when taxes on products are lower, that means these products cost less to the consumer, so consumers buy more of it [rule of supply and demand, also speaks about the connection between price and traded quantity]. So there’s more revenue and more products sold, which boosts production.

I remember reading somewhere that the Irish “low tax” area was deliberately accepted by the EU as a sort of reparation payments for the irish potato famine, which was largely caused by english politics.

but idk whether that’s actually true or just a rumor.

hmm, groceries, that sounds … gross

something something final, most essential command …

Edit: Here’s a potentially alternative frontend for Instagram, but YMMV

i was gonna ask you for exactly this but you already posted it ^^

interesting!

does anybody know whether weed smoke has the same bad health effects on your lungs as cigarettes?

i assume yes if the dose of smoke is the same, since it’s the smoke that’s acid and not the nicotine.

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The best way to implement that ban is to have a variable on the device (smartphone) that holds the approximate birthdate of the user (sth like 2002-01-01) and then the device gives forward the information about whether the user is 16+, 18+ forward to any app of maybe even website that requests that info.

The parent who buys the device gets a code to configure the device to set the birthdate, and without that code, it’s not changeable for the user. The platforms then only have to look at that variable to figure out whether the user is old enough.

This way, you shift responsibility to the user, but in a way that is technically possible. Because today, it’s almost impossible for a not ultra-tech-affine parent to actually implement age controls on their children’s devices.

This might be what makes the fediverse finally become mainstream.

especially in terms of being less addictive

and if they [children] figure that out anyways then enjoy the arms race

yeah that’s what i was talking about in my previous comment. today, there’s no simple way to just enable “parental control” on an android phone.

and i’m not paying these stupid overpriced apple phones, no way.

too many people be like this. well, they’re gonna have a rough awakening when the IT job market collapses.