Doug [he/him]

So more Gmail than G+

Might Bluesky be doing the same?

In fairness, Gmail had a similar invite system when it launched and that’s been way more successful than G+

Nah. I’ve had a domain registered with them for years and I just got the email too

FWIW I home at midwest.social. It’s not strictly for the Midwest US but you’ll see a lot of stuff for that region there. It’s also left leaning and I think the only instances they’ve defederated so far have been for extremism.

I’m also using jerboa on my phone and from my inbox there’s a speech bubble button which lets me make this response from my inbox.

I don’t know if either of these things will help you but I figured I’d offer them just in case they did.

No worries. Lemmy feels way more casual than Reddit anyway and I got notifications for months old comments there from time to time

Running both Windows and Linux

Yeah but what if I’m not dual booting?

A political party makes up parts of the government and uses their ads to whitewash their own actions within the government.

This division is not at clean as you’re trying to make it

Does it count when a major political party, that does that all the time, uses the money it pilfered from that government, or is that different somehow?

What about that the only reason they’re not doing it directly from the government account is because of the safeguards against that kind of thing they haven’t pulled down yet

Are children and young adults really more impressionable than Fox news, and thereby Facebook’s, audience?

I also don’t know that I agree with “targeted mostly at children and young adults”. There are very large parts of TikTok that would be wholly unappealing to your average kid. Not to mention that American social media started out very much targeted at children and young adults. Or have we already forgotten what the main demographics of Facebook and myspace used to be?

The problem with whataboutism here is that these conversations pretty much always involve TikTok and rarely other platforms until it’s brought up in comments where it can be dismissed as whataboutism.

Either they’re all a problem (it’s this one) or none of them are. We need to stop drawing arbitrary lines between offenders. It’s just giving a bunch of shit bags freedom to continue being shit bags.

It’s a fair point but I’ve got two counters.

1. It was blocked in the browser, which implies there’s not a cached record for it on the device

2. The Pi-hole logs the queries it receives and I do have four separate entries for that URL today, spaced in an amount of time that does not imply automatic requests but does likely match up with my test cases.

So I just tested this. I’m not at home so I had to VPN in which is no issue.

• I opened graph.facebook.com and confirmed it was working
• I opened and logged in to my Ally app
• I added graph.facebook.com to my pi-hole’s black list as a regex entry
• I opened graph.facebook.com in the browser and confirmed it was blocked
• I force closed and cleared the cache on my Ally app
• I opened and logged in to my Ally app

It’s not the Meta connection that’s giving you trouble.

I’d wager prevalence is part of their problem. Jokes get tired after a while, but that doesn’t always mean they stop.

PHP, like any language, has its problems, but it seems to get poked at a lot more often. But making the same joke over and over has been a problem long before reddit was a thing.

I did have a classmate try to replicate Simon in QBasic but he kept needing the input reversed.

I told him the “feature not a bug” line and suggested he call it NOMIS

👍

So in the 90s I had different computer based classes in high school.

There was a “computers” class, which is probably the closest to what you’re talking about, in which we mostly learned how to use Microsoft Works.

I also was fortunate enough to have some programming classes. We started out with QBasic and then the more advanced level was visual basic.

None of these discussed firmware. If it came up at all it was probably a casual side conversation because someone bricked something trying to update it.