They move to m.org, then they find their feet with matrix, then they move to a better instance.

The thing you need to realise is that when someone signs up for a safe space instance, they are making their own decision about the content they wish to see.

Look, I absolutely understand that some people want to make their own choices about moderation. I was the same, until I existed as trans on Twitter for too long.

My point isn’t about blocking right wing transphobia stans.

My point is that if they don’t block anyone, you get CSAM, you get Nazi’s, you get ethnic cleansing advocates etc. And that’s why an empty defederation list is a red flag. I’m explicitly not taking about instances that don’t block many other instances. I’m talking about instances that don’t block any.

It’s not about you. It’s about the type of content that will appear on the server, even if you personally block it.

especially since there are no blocked instances

That’s not a good sign tbh…

Yep, but piefed and lemmy both have tools to propogate communities to small instances so that they can be discovered and followed. So you won’t see content that no one on the instance is interested in, but if someone is, they’ll be able to find the community for it, even if they’re on a small instance.

These days, the radiation is dangerous on the long term exposure level, not short term

No, I’m not religious. There’s no elevator pitch, because it doesn’t need one.

I use an Apple Magic Trackpad on my desktop, because I liked the macbook touchpad so much! It’s the only Apple product I use these days

I use a touch pad, so I don’t have this problem

The reason I doubt that is because I can’t smell ants “all the time”. And I can definitely smell them when they’re disturbed. But most people who talk about smelling ants describe the smell as “damp” or “mouldy” or “earthy”, and I have never smelled an ant that smells like that.

The only smell I’ve ever smelled from them is acrid and acidic, and that only happens when they’re disturbed or dead.

I don’t think they’re talking about the dead/distressed ant smell. To the best of my knowledge, everyone can smell that. They’re talking about a general smell of ants

“Hey, marketing team, we need a new Supergirl poster, but we need it to look as AI generated as possible! What have you got for us?”

I volunteer at parkrun and have done so for about 10 years now!

I wouldn’t have the first clue how to answer that question!

Centralised social media

OTPs have a safe, unexploitable backdoor feature?

The bots are already on the fediverse. The difference is, the admin to user ratio on the fediverse is much better, so they get identified and removed within a day or two, rather than spamming for weeks or months

I mean, matrix is similar. So many official features aren’t supported by various clients, and then there are non official features that the clients do support, that aren’t supported by the official clients.

But matrix or XMPP, that problem is easily enough avoided at the “government rollout” level by standardising on a particular client and server combination

When it happened to me, I had a 1000 song countdown of the best songs by Michael Jackson, Prince and Madonna.

Not sure I would recommend it…