This is purely so Rupe can turn around to Labour and say “I made you, so do as I say!”.

These Fascist and Sexist nutbags are all on another level.

Why is anyone giving them any time at all!?

Great news, but does anyone else get Nanites/Grey Goo vibes from this?

But then she would miss out on dinner, family movie night and other social interactions!

As posted above, same here. We use the Intercom feature on a HomePod to call her down. She hates it because the whole point of AirPods Pro is so she can ignore everyone!

I’m trying to train the rest of our household to use our voice assistant intercom feature.

One of the kids hates that the intercom interrupts whatever she is doing, as far as she is concerned, she ignores everyone else and uses her noise-cancelling earbuds for a reason.

Before anyone asks, I have already trained them to not say anything personal within earshot of the home assistants.

In a non-local language.

This also provides a minimal level of security against robocall scams.

Which have all sorts of names for their bubbies. Kits, kittens, cubs, pups, lambs, foals, kids, piglets… etc, etc.

I can leave the larger community, but I do miss a couple subreddits.

The good thing about the Reddit before the dark times of 3 weeks ago, was that it had a large enough user graph that there were enough people with niche interests to have an active community. Facebook also has this critical user graph.

The good thing about ActivityPub based communities is that there is the potential to have much larger federated user graphs than the individual closed business-based platforms.

And baby Monotremes (Echidna, Platypus) are called Puggles.

Email and Usenet used to have the same barrier to entry, you needed someone to host and provide NNTP, POP3 and SMTP servers for you to access them. This was usually your ISP or IT department.

Modern internet users have become so conditioned by FB, Gmail, etc to think that the only way you can access content is though one of these monolithic providers. There are some users who think that FaceBook is the internet (just like Early AOL, MSN and CompuServe users of the 90’s).

I would like to see small ISPs provide federated instances for their subscribers, just like their email servers and the NNTP servers from days of yore. Since most independent ISP churn is triggered by word-of-mouth, it would be a great marketing platform.

Great post on the mastodon blog, clearing things up;

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/

In a nutshell, Zuck may want to EEE, but ActivityPub already has enough of a user graph and is structured in such a way that it would not be possible.

100%, and their advertisers don’t either, however do their users have a place in the Fediverse?

We used to say the same thing about GNU/Linux on the desktop, and we were/are ridiculed constantly. The fact is that it is. While Android isn’t the same as Linux, it (and every other consumer platform besides MacOS, iOS and Windows) is based on Linux.

When Instagram Threads is released in a day-and-a-half, (and if it lives upto it’s potential and isn’t just a case of Embrace-Extend-Extinguish), ActivityPub and the Fediverse will be mainstream.

My completely unfounded and speculative pet theory is that when casual punters tried to read Reddit using their favourite 3rd Party app, and couldn’t, they went to use Twitter instead.

Since Twitter has been haemorrhaging regular users all year, and trying to cut costs, their diminished infrastructure couldn’t handle it, causing Elon to panic and release his policy change.