some people might want to avoid Feddly due to their approach to protests: https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/110113208809822962

if you add a few letters to “Fediverse” and then remove a few, it’ll spell “Satan”.

it also sort-of-kind-of-little-bit-of works with Misskey/Calckey. I don’t think any official work has been done to enable support, but you can login with your account and browse posts.

let’s check.

@dansup

yes it is, which shouldn’t be that surprising since it federates with Mastodon as well.

https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa/issues

friendly reminder that Luddites weren’t opposed to technology, just wary of its misuse and how it was going to benefit the people higher up rather than the workers.

so, bananas?

https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions

make sure to also check the “don’t bother” section that includes LocalCDN, Privacy Badger, and a few more popular choices.

Google actually pulls results from web pages.

you know how some smartphone keyboards predict the next word that you’re going to use, and you can form a comprehensible sentence that sometimes even makes sense? that’s what those language models do. they don’t actually search for anything, they just create sequences of words that sound probable.

a “search engine” that hallucinates results, including but not limited to non-existent court cases.

Basedonia

I usually find that adding a website/blog that I visit frequently (i.e. find interesting) to my RSS reader works pretty well.

…how are we supposed to figure out what you find “interesting”?

prepare for a ton of instances defederating from yours on day 1.

apparently some Mastodon admins got contacted by Meta and met with them after signing an NDA. I’m quite surprised how many Masto admins want to “just wait and see, maybe it’s not gonna be that bad”.

Lemmy needs two things to be successful:

1. users
2. users

and it’s already getting more and more of each of those.