Not sure how you get from Fediverse people researching what server admin/moderation structures work well and which ones don’t to CIA censorship.

…decided what they want the outcome to be, and formulates some kind of argument that results in that outcome

You might say his results were…predetermined

Looks like it is available for free, but you get a really awkward username. I just enabled it on an old WP.com blog that I have on a free account and while @kelson.wordpress.com@kelson.wordpress.com works (I was able to subscribe to it from both Mastodon and GoToSocial), it’s a bit unwieldy.

Apparently not anymore. I have a free account on WordPress.com and I just turned it on like you said.

The rest of the page? Probably. I stopped reading after the comic.

Not much point in writing a PR if the idea has already been rejected (or is still hotly contested) in the issues. Most of the suggestions aren’t just write-some-code solutions, they’re design decisions, and if the project owner doesn’t agree with that decision? Well, you can fork it like glitch-soc or hometown, or you can use another project that already does what you want (but doesn’t have as much traction), or you can keep trying to convince the people running the project to accept your idea. Even quote posts, which they’re finally coming around to grudgingly accept as a possible feature, involve a lot of decisions on which posts can be quoted, who gets notified, etc.

As others have said: followers yes, posts, no. Some other Fediverse platforms can migrate posts, though, and I believe Firefish (previously known as Calckey) is able to import posts from Mastodon as well as from other instances of itself.

That’s something I noticed when I first started using it, too. One of the first things was picking out the different kids of small birds that my brain had previously filed under “small bird.” A sparrow here, a finch there, a warbler or a phoebe, those are starlings not blackbirds or small crows, etc.

I’m still not good at telling different dandelion-like species apart, though, and I’m happy to let the app make its best guess on those and let someone else sort them out!

Reminder to self: buy physical copies of the shows I want to watch again.

I had to check…

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/releases/tag/v7.3.3

O_o

Edit:

Yeah, it was real! Back in 2017.

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v733-fix-cia-hacking-npp-issue/

Checking the certificate of DLL makes it harder to hack. Note that once users’ PCs are compromised, the hackers can do anything on the PCs. This solution only prevents from Notepad++ loading a CIA homemade DLL. It doesn’t prevent your original notepad++.exe from being replaced by modified notepad++.exe while the CIA is controlling your PC.