Imagine explaining this headline into somebody in 1990.

“Allergy butter” is my new name for Jif. Thanks.

There have been some platforms that combined form factors like Friendica and mbin

Can someone ELI5? What is the problem that this solves?

Deeply disturbing. It’s so easy to forget that this is a picture of Iran in the 1970s.

[fairy fountain music intensifies]

YikYak, GroupMe, Ready Education, Remind, UniBuddy, Viva, etc. Etc.

Reposting this here from the discussion in !news@lemmy.world:

There’s a real argument for a Mastodon use case for news organizations, governments, and colleges.

If they’re just seeking engagement, then they have to wait for the platform to grow. But this isn’t about that.

Many news organizations already have comment sections on their website, and they want to push out information on breaking news as quickly as possible. They need a platform to do those things. So, a lot of them use Facebook for embedded comments on the page and Xitter to breaking news. The thing is that they could use mastodon for both, and run their own instance, which would give them total control and not be at the mercy of Musk or Zuck.

Colleges use expensive proprietary messaging apps for students, clubs, and teachers that they can monitor and adjust to fit their needs. Mastodon offers that.

Governments sometimes end up in legal hot water due to freedom of information, etc. that comes with corporate social media. Mastodon offers the freedoms and controls necessary to disseminate vital information and to allow or reject posts as required by local laws.

The point is that Mastodon is an effective public facing communication system that also allows internal controls by the host.

The only publicity and marketing budget that the fediverse has is us, so any opportunity to promote it is our job. Government, education, news. These are the vital areas to promote.

That’s exactly right.

I can confirm the suspicion of strangers handing you something. We don’t trust something for nothing.

There are entire YouTube channels about walking up to Americans and trying to give them a $100 bill. Most won’t take it.

That’s the point of the post.

That’s the point of the post. I wish I knew how to make money from the knowledge that this is the high point and it will crash in the future. Someone out there is making that money.

I don’t. I thought that was the point if futures options. You are betting on the price going down. It’s a good thing my broker doesn’t let me trade them I guess.

I’ve been pretty happy with Tuta. I just have a free account, but it does seem like it has pretty good features and phenomenal security.

Electrinic intifada:

From Wikipedia:

There is consensus that The Electronic Intifada is generally unreliable with respect to its reputation for accuracy, fact-checking, and error-correction. Almost all editors consider The Electronic Intifada a biased and opinionated source, so their statements should be attributed.

Mondoweis:

“Mondoweiss” is a hate site (UPDATED) from the Washington Post.

Oh absolutely! But we will never know if it was motivated by racism, political or religious extremism, etc.

“Dissatisfied about his divorce” reeks of state media censorship. We’ll probably never know his real motivation.

Very cool! It’s a pretty specialized use case, but still awesome to see.

They seem pretty legit based on the research I’ve done. With a small niche program like that, they kind of have to be because one misstep and they would lose their entire base.

According to fellow historians:

At best, Ilan Pappe must be one of the world’s sloppiest historians; at worst, one of the most dishonest. In truth, he probably merits a place somewhere between the two.

He deliberately (or by incompetence) omits and changes details, mistranslates, and distorts historical documents. Not surprising that this ill-informed post leans heavily on his work.

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