I semi-routinely get food for beggars. Gift cards, even. I don't carry cash, but if someone says they're trying to get enough money for food, I offer to just buy them what they need. They almost always say yes, and, especially in winter, you can tell it means a lot, at least in the moment.
On my first payday, post graduation, I did this for some kid who seemed clean by really skinny. He picked out frozen chicken nuggets, and seemed just so happy and grateful. That's stuck with me.
It's because it was actually a Walz thing, and she sidelined Walz for some reason.
If you don't already have any followers, there is little point in posting anything there.
See, I disagree. This may be true on the large Masto sites, but if you join an interest-first site, then the Local timeline is actually an ansynchronous chatroom filled with people with similar interests.
Fedi microblogs work really well for finding and connecting with people you have comminalities with when using small-to-medium sized sites. Much better than Lemmy, really, where the post content itself is the primary vehicle of interest, rather than the poster. The Reddit model is actually kind of shit for discussion, since it goes the extra mile to depersonalize the posts.
Lemmy is way better for content ingestion, while the microblogs are way better for socializing.
Assuming you're not on Mast.soc, anyway.
Yeah. Peoples concerns around Meta and EEE notwithstanding, ActivityPub is an open standard maintained by the W3C. It's meant to be used by anyone and everyone, just like HTTP is. The desire is to give options that esshew social silos, not to create social wilderness outside of the corporate city states
Individualism for me, fashion police for you!
Mayor of New York
It's not so much the performance issues that kill the projects -- instances with hundreds to a couple thousand users are very, very healthy for the fediverse -- it's that the codebase is...
Well, Misskey is a 10-year-old solo development project that's been cancelled at least once by the dev due to burnout, with documentation partially in broken english, and the rest in Japanese. Working with it is... yeah...
Global feed. 'All' on Lemmy, 'Federated timeline' on Mastodon, etc., for established instances.
Trolling big instances and copying account URLs on clean instances.
Edit: Wanna tell me what's wrong with that? Or are we just passive-aggressive and not worth talking to?
Must be nice to be Canada Post's negotiation team. Never having to work in good faith, knowing the government would -- sooner or later -- force workers back on the job, and CP would never have to actually consider their demands in any way, shape, or form.
The "parents rights" "libertarian" in action.
I hoped it was just bluster
You understand he was president before, right? And that he did this before? Like, he's a totally known quantity, and he's going back to where he was in 2019.
Hashtags still only show you posts that are specifically addressed to users on your host site. They just act as a quick-search feature. You need some kind of "actor" to re-address things to people who aren't following the OP in order to get true propagation across the network. This is what guppe groups do, and what Lemmy communities do.