NutWrench

The entire point of the Fedi-verse is so that one person or small group of people can’t ruin the entire platform for everyone else. Anyone who tells you how to moderate your content, backed up by a threat can screw off.

Actors need to be able to trademark their image and audio likeness or corporations will puppeteer them for free. Forever.

Easily “World War Z.” What an utter waste of the source material.

Mastodon is a much better alternative to Twitter/X.

The problem with Trump is that he’s a known quantity to anyone who has lived on Earth for the last 50 years. He’s a compulsive liar, literally about everything and a vile, disgusting person, as well.

Knowing that, I would find it impossible to “just consider the facts” and believe that maybe . . . just maybe, this is the one time he’s telling the truth.

Some of these duplicate communities are just placeholders. But sometimes, the differences are obvious, where one community Is populated by jerks or modded by power-trippers.

Over time, the more popular community will become clear by the number of subscribers. (Or the real, topical one will give itself a different name to avoid confusion with the jerks).

Because as long as there’s a lien on your car, the bank that owns it wants to make sure it’s thoroughly insured until it’s paid for. Their insurance is mandatory and usually much more comprehensive (and expensive).

Does that $350 include car insurance? Once you pay off the lien and own the car, insurance should be a lot cheaper.

Yup. You can’t monetize something whose value is determined by the whims of the people who use it. There are a million websites streaming porn that do a better job of monetizing content than YouTube.

How did the “investors” think this business model was going to work, again? “Let’s get millions of people to donate their time and content . . . pay them pennies in return, monetize all their content for ourselves and here’s the good part . expect them to PAY for the privilege of accessing it?”

Yup. You can be profitable without expecting to get rich. The insane corporate expectations of “20% growth every year forever” directly leads to the enshitification of everything it touches, especially social media.