At least we’ll get a delightfully stunted Jony Ive product film out of it.

Whereas on Reddit, it’d be used to justify a slippery slope. “We’ve already banned X and Y, so banning Z is just an extension of that.”

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THE WORST OF TIMES ARE WHEN LAWYERS HAVE TO FORCE THEIR BIGGEST SMILES!!!

We’re deleting ‘doors’ as a feature. They just don’t make sense.

— Melontusk

Friend created. Initials (“MJL”) became word! Makes smile.

There was (maybe still is) a cake shop in Southgate, North London. About a minute from my old flat.

The cakes in the window display rarely changed, if ever.

The guy running it looked like if you imagine the toughest prisoner at a prison, only wearing an apron.

About 50/50 whether the glass would be smashed whenever you walked past.

It was often “open” and had people coming in and out of it at 2-3am when I came back from nights out.

And there was a drive-by shooting right in that area while I lived there, that I always assumed was related. 😅

Ugh, cancel culture rears its ugly head again 😔

In the smouldering aftermath, some politicians, keen to shift the focus from social inequality, have muttered darkly about the role of BlackBerry Messenger, Twitter and Facebook – frightening new technologies that, like the pen and the human mouth, allow citizens to swap messages with one another. Some have even called for the likes of Twitter to be temporarily suspended in times of great national crisis. That’d be reassuring – like the scene at the start of a zombie movie where the news bulletin is suddenly replaced by a whistling tone and a stark caption reading PLEASE STAND BY. The last thing we need in an emergency is the ability to share information.

– Charlie Brooker on the 2011 London riots

I sometimes get “You may have new messages” from WhatsApp 😅

In-sta-gram

Although I’m only saying that to be contrarian, I do actually agree with you 😬

Squeeze to activate Google Assistant, from the Pixel 2 XL (and maybe others, I don’t remember)

inb4 Reddit rebrands as “R”

Ohhhhh, OK I get it now.

I always used (and preferred) the official app and wondered why I was the only one haha.

But, I had Reddit Premium until recently, and now I guess AdGuard must be picking up the slack. 😅

Funnily enough @fer0n@lemm.ee does seem to work in the Liftoff app, but I guess there maybe isn’t a standard yet. 😃

There’s a subreddit called r/lostredditors. For people who somehow ended up posting in the wrong subreddit. I was just referencing that. ☺️

(Has anyone made a “Lost Lemmings” community yet? 🙃)

Oh, I’m sure they are. I just mean, if The Masses are going to try anything, it’s going to be the easier of the two options (with loads of marketing behind it). :)

Yeah I haven’t been bothering recently, I gotta be honest. The m0nkrus releases are just too easy haha.

Is the hosts file hack still worth doing, or just go into Windows Firewall and take away its internet access?

Yes, to all of this.

UX people probably call this “friction” or something. I think the fediverse currently has too much “friction” for the average person.

Whereas with Threads it’ll be as simple as tapping the “Continue using Facebook” button. 🤔