Yeah, so there’s no real way to implement private posts on Mastodon.

I mean, it is fine if you want to implement sort of “best effort” semi-privacy and make it clear to everyone involved that that’s what it is, but for any reasonable definition of “private,” the requirement that it not get shown to people outside the list of people allowed to see it needs to be enforced better than this. There will always be server software that doesn’t “cooperate.” That’s just the nature of open distributed systems. If you’re making assurances to your users that their posts will be private, you need to be the one enforcing that, not everyone else on the network and the protocol needs to be set up with the ability for that to happen (which ActivityPub is not, which means it’s misleading that someone told users that they can have “private” posts via this hack.)

private posts are only sent to instances

Well, obviously they’re sent to some other ones, or else this wouldn’t be an issue.

This is a design flaw in the protocol. If your instance is going to send your private posts to other people, they’re not private. The authors need to fix your instance software, not demand that every other software in existence needs to “cooperate” and find out whether they’re “private” and not show them to the users if they are.

Disagreeing with the orthodoxy is a good way to draw a lot of attention to yourself, which has benefits both social and financial. And, if you exist in a fact-free culture like the US has, there’s no immediate harm to yourself even if your counter-orthodoxy is both wrong and dangerous. I don’t think it is much more complicated than that.

I want to ask about how strongly Russia’s economy is doing, and how they are rising and NATO is falling apart and the EU is going to all crumble and freeze in the dark with no fossil fuels while Russia stands strong, and how that all ties in with this whole theory, but I have lost interest.

I wish you luck with your geopolitical theories. Y’all are weird.

Question: If Trump reverses the direction of US foreign policy, and starts openly seeking for Ukraine to be conquered and have its resources and land taken by Russia and the US, would it become support worthy because of its place on that list?

How about Canada? If he starts trying to conquer Canada (not that I think he would, I think it is pure posturing) would it then start needing Lemmygrad’s support?

Indeed and definitely, I liked your reference

Good stuff, “my friend says we’re like the dinosaurs” would also have been slick

Edit: Yes and

Haha fair enough, in that case you will find exactly what you’re looking for.

Attention! Turn back. Going into these comments can bring you nothing of happiness. You can just look up the “tumblr reading comprehension” meme instead of needing to see the gory details of it in action.

The world is a wonderful place, and far too wide to need to conform to your pet theory.

Don’t forget the huge transfer of assets that currently belong to the US treasury into the hands of like 20 crypto bros. That’s another key goal.

Yeah, the whole aspect of spending AI with all its associated costs to defeat the AI is a whole unpleasant aspect of it, for sure.

But it’s not personal. The entity you are interacting with has explicitly chosen to attack your systems for their own benefit, causing significant damage while disguising its intent and evading the systems which are supposed to protect your stuff from harm.

I’m not saying you need to go throw eggs at the developers’ houses. I’m saying that once an entity is actively harming you, it becomes okay to harm it back to motivate it to stop.

Negligible outcomes?

He is succeeding. Why is this person assuming he isn’t a madman or doesn’t want this?

The company says the content served to bots is deliberately irrelevant to the website being crawled, but it is carefully sourced or generated using real scientific facts—such as neutral information about biology, physics, or mathematics—to avoid spreading misinformation (whether this approach effectively prevents misinformation, however, remains unproven).

You cowards. Make it all Hitler fan stuff and wild Elon Musk porno slash fiction. Make it a bunch of source code examples with malicious bugs. Make it instructions for how to make nuclear weapons. They want to ignore the blocking directives and lie about their user agent? Dude, fuck ‘em up. Today’s society has made people way too nice.

1. Animals understand the world in a lot more detail and depth than we give them credit for. We get caught up in a lot of big brain nonsense, some of which is useful sure, but a lot of the basics, they’re well on top of. They’re not stupid, they just don’t have language or hands.
2. I feel like a lot of human stuff is just total incomprehensible magic to cats and dogs. Cats clearly think humans can change the weather, or it might be different weather at a different door. Because why wouldn’t it be? You guys control the light switches and the doors and cars and stuff. Why would the weather be different? There’s stuff in my domain and then all the world change stuff is your domain. It’s cool, we can still be buds.

Idk man, pick one.

I think expansion of the prison system and prison labor at massive scale is their plan when that happens.

Delightful lol. Thank you.

education, job creation, peace and prosperity results

Europe going psychotic over peace prospects, and responding to economic extortion from US with more psychosis against Russia, is a crazy level at least as high as what comes from the right.

Absolutely gratifying. Keep talking, this is great stuff, I am highly entertained now.

https://ponder.cat/post/2069460