@hpod16 It's possible, but there are not enough resources. I've been talking with officials in two gminas (lowest level administrative units) for almost two years. They see no real advantages – most of the communication with citizens is via facebook – and administrators do not understand that many of their posts are not displayed. Changing this would require an organization to kickstart Mastodon in gminas – by setting up Mastodon accounts for the administration, but also convincing and helping citizens to set up their own accounts. In my sparsely populated area probably even one person could do the job – full time. The few people here interested in more effective communication lack the time do do this on a volunteer basis, but would be eager to help in their free time. Perhaps I should write a few pages on this, but I really don't have that much time right now

@wjmaggos @taylorlorenz absolutely true! And very well observed. It’s not just a case of not getting adverts but every individual on the platform is filtering by boosting or not boosting suspect posts. So it’s a kind of non-stop moderation by real human beings just like us.

@LianaBrooks Yes and yes. Been my only SoMe for two and a half years or so.Both for a sense of community on my local instance as well as keeping up-to-date with news that is generally not very well covered on traditional media.

@YaLTeR Looks nice

@sundogplanets In a definitely unrelated post that I saw yesterday: https://newsie.social/@Tendar/115989939915064578

@bovazI was thinking the same. I thought those were very good when I trialled CalcKey @aurochs @futurebird

@tanyakaroli Jeg tror, jeg har sådan en monografi-knold.Du kan holde utrolig mange aktiviteter i gang samtidig. Jeg kan dårligt nok skulle tage opvasken, uden at det går lidt i sur for mig. Jeg bliver svimmel bare ved tanken om at være dig.Men tanken om at en bog først bliver færdig om mange år, stresser mig ikke det fjerneste. En bog er et livsafsnit for mig, og hvis jeg glemmer noget, så finder jeg det nok igen om et par år.

@ZenHeathen @evan Yes.I think what is illustrated is that people might misunderstand what any of the filters do and have different opinions on what they think ought to happen.Still, it's far better than Facebook, X-Twitter, LinkedIn, TikTok or even Bluesky.If someone wants a private group they should set it up on Viber. "Followers only" here is almost pointless.

@jamie @Yuki this aligns with "You'll own nothing and be happy"

@Daojoan the Internet didn't change itself. People have the power to regulate the Internet. Unfortunately too many of us are suicidal racists.

@JadedBlueEyes I love how it uses post-quantum encryption to not authorize the requests

@drahardja @skyfire747 @nomenloony Always wrong, in many ways levels and categories including wasting lives.

@libreoffice Great decision!We also decided/announced this in 03/2025.

@benroyce@mastodon.socialWe don't know the average life expectancy of EV batteries yet, but if they are sub-10 years, then the EV will never reach the green payoff.Now comes the real meat of this discussion energy production emissions. Yes hydro-electric dams produce more harmful emissions than we previously thought, but that is for the first 20ish years as the vegetation in the resivoir degrades3/?@dnkboston@apobangpo.space @GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai @blogdiva

@ShaulaEvans Dragonflies spend far more of their life under water in their larval stage. The nymphs have an extending, spear like mandible to capture prey. They also have jet propulsion!

@JimmyB @randahl My comment related to all the scams we face each day. It's hard to know what is a scam and what is not when it comes to "cold calls". I have been ripped of several times by being kind. It knocks your confidence.

@papageier@digitalcourage.social @reading_recluse@c.im This is such a lazy argument:: You can WEAR clothing. No one wants to read AI generated text, AI images are hideous. Beyond some niche industrial cases, which are not the focus of the hyperscalers, LLM's are generally useless and a massive waste of resources. The entire industry is based on a speculative, utopian fantasy of created an AGI that will solve all problems. It's utopian fantasy mixed with sunk cost fantasy. It's like saying "why eat human shit when you can now eat robot generated shit. Also sabotage and worker resistance got workers everything they ever had.

@shiri @pluralistic @tante Thanks for these corrections. Completely agree with everything, and thanks for tagging Cory.One of the really unfortunate things that the Silicon Valley scammers have achieved is to coopt new technologies for their despicable pump and dump schemes and apply their disingenuous hype factory which ends up tarring all uses with the same brush.

@pokecaptain yes! someone shared with me the other day, I still need to try it but it's so nice that there's people working on this

@bjn @cstross and despite being shown to repeatedly over promise and under delivery, the markets will no doubt lap it up anyway.