Wait, what? Which parts of this are satire now? I read the Onion piece that Global Tetrahedron was purchasing InfoWars, but this is a Guardian story saying The Onion is purchasing it? I’m a bit confused.

I wrote (not only, but some) more intelligent things on the Internet when I was a teenager.

In the 2000s I thought that due to more and more people being on the internet, stories like this would be very common in the future, not just for the government, but private entities too.

In reality: Most things that happen at most workplaces are not interesting enough to leak, and most people do not want to risk their careers for something like this. So it’s still relatively rare.

no, I’m very certain I’ve never seen one, this article certainly doesn’t have one

Last decade it was “destroyed”

https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/01/21/these-are-a-few-more-of-my-least-favorite-things/ point 2

WordPress has an ActivityPub plugin. I suspect you already know about it.

Some months ago I read about something called “Ghost” which either already has or is planning to add ActivityPub integration.

If there were a universal answer to this, there wouldn’t be any others.

I myself currently use Debian (testing), have for some years now, but I have used other distros in the past too.

ideally donations like lots of other FOSS projects

I’ve been in online communities since shortly after my 10th birthday and this has never once been a problem.

Most of my friends when I was a teenager were people I met online. It was beyond a reasonable doubt good for me to be on the Internet during that time because it was the only place where I fit in, where I could be myself.

If I ever have kids, I hope they fit in better than I did offline, but if they don’t, there is no way I am going to prevent them from socializing in online communities.

At whatever age they want to.

holy shit why would you deprive kids of (often their only way to have any) social contacts and think you’re the good guys

oh, I see, so this is the European version of https://www.techdirt.com/2024/10/09/a-whole-bunch-of-states-file-garbage-grandstanding-lawsuits-against-tiktok-with-the-main-complaint-being-kids-like-it/ (except France doesn’t have a First Amendment so it is worse)

I wonder whether we will ever achieve a society in which we trust everyone, including young people, to know what’s good for them and what not by themselves.

Until then I can only read https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence and cry about how that has turned out.

That happens relatively rarely. Remember the protests in recent years in Thailand, Hong Kong, Iran? They went exactly nowhere.

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/02/hey-elon-let-me-help-you-speed-run-the-content-moderation-learning-curve/ strikes again

KDE Plasma because I can make it look, feel and work mostly like Windows. I have to use Windows at work and don’t want to have to think too hard about differences between computers I use at work vs. at home.

Can be either, neither is technically impossible. As another comment said, you can try for yourself what still works when your phone isn’t connected to the Internet.

People age. You don’t look the same as in 2010 either, I know that without having any idea what you look like.

Oppression of young people is the only one that seems to get worse over time

https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence 🙁🙁😭😡

problem is I have no idea which of these communities is “best”, I do not pay enough attention to things going on behind the scenes to have any knowledge of that.

I posted it to 8 communities because there are 8 communities I am aware of where this on-topic. Some people might be subscribed to only a subset of them. This is the natural consequence of the fediverse enabling us to have more than one community for discussing the same topic.