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I guess it depends on what you want. If you want to be totally anonymous on the internet, then it's a bad idea. If you want people to use Mastodon, then it's probably an OK one, since the way people use microblogging is to follow famous people, and famous people aren't using Mastodon unless there's evidence that there's an audience there for them to play to.

Seems like an opportunity to use this in attack PP's tax-cut rhetoric, and to attack the oft-repeated talking points from business that tax increases will be passed on to consumers.

Tax cuts are eaten by businesses, so long as the businesses believe that people will continue to buy. Tax increases will also be eaten by businesses, so long as the businesses believe that people will refuse to buy at a higher price. It's all being taken by or from shareholders.

It's a shame no political entities will actually touch this with anything more pointed or useful than "that's appalling!"

People need to just stop discussing Minecraft on .world.

Nah, Elon's all about dat X. He'll just call them all X.

If they failed to steal that one, they were going to steal the next one. 2000 wasn't some kind of fluke. It was an organized, targeted effort to change tje political landscape, and it had been in progrwss for many years at that point. They weren't going to stop if they fell a little short.

Someone asking doew not obligate you to respond. There is no theivery. You can walk away without saying anything. They cannot take your time from you.

You're choosing to waste it by responding with something unhelpful, though, and wasting their time for the sake of your unrequested public masturbation.

There is no bare minimum to ask for help.

There is a bare minimum to responding to someone asking for help, though: Being willing to provide some. Replying to tell them they haven't earned the help yet is just being an asshole for the sake of feeling self-satisfaction, and it's actively making the Internet a worse place.

Don't do that shit. They don't need to know your feelings on the issue, and neither do the rest of us. Nobody asked about them.

Good riddance to bad brain damage.

Conservative loon looks to prove that the American conservatives aren't right-wing enough.

Proves it by showing that pro-labour rhetoric resonates even with white-Christian nationalists. I'm not sure what he thinks he can do with this revelation.

People have had standing requests, and even PRs, for features for years. Many of them are for exact kinds of things Bluesky has implemented. Some have been for similar features but at the server level.

The requests have gone unheard, the PRs have been ignored. So, what I'd have Mastodon do is listen to those requesting better self-safety features, or hurry up and die so development team that actually gives a shit can gain some traction.

Like you I’m confused at the continual cries of racism on Mastadon.

I, uh, said I'm not confused by the cries of racism. I'm confused by the constant claims of "I don't see any, therefore it must not exist".

It's like no one gives a shit, because it doesn't affect them personally. Which, you know, makes everyone the kind of people that those experiencing harassment don't want to be around anyway.

Yeah. It's pretty telling that my entire time on Mastodon has been punctuated by black users complaining about how much racism they're exposed to on the network, and everyone else going "I don't see any racism!"

Like, ok, maybe you don't. I don't. I'm as white as snow, and don't post about my experiences as a racialized person (not being one, and all). But it's pretty clear, just from seeing the same exchange over and over again, that racialized people are experiencing something I'm not, and them expressing as much has Defenders of the Faith circling wagons every time it comes up.

Mastodon being a little more complicated than Twitter wouldn't have been a major blocker to communities coming over. "Hey, join this site", rather than "join Mastodon!" is all you need. But no one's going to be telling black folks, or any other community, to come on over if the social atmosphere is at least as toxic as where they're coming from.

Now with another alternative, Mastodon also needs to be better than "not being Twitter". And the people who are there already seem to have zero interest in doing that.