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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • I’m not sure you understood the point I was making. Multiple platforms exist on the fediverse. Interoperability is a nice plus but it’s not the core feature of the protocol.

    Mastodon is strongest around microblogging because that’s what it’s built for. Lemmy is strongest for community discussions because that’s what it’s built for. There are options like mbin that do more to bridge the gap in different ways.

    Success of a platform is mostly centered around doing a particular thing very well. There is nothing stopping someone from making multiple accounts across multiple platforms (or even the same platform).

    I’d recommend trying to set up different accounts and see if you find one meets your criteria better.




  • Why do people love to hate on Firefox? People have been harping on Pocket for years as a waste of resources that hardly anyone uses, but now that they are eliminating it, people are coming out of the woodwork to wax nostalgic?

    It turns out that making a modern browser is a huge, complex task. It’s been said that it is more on par with maintaining an OS than another type of app. Mozilla is not perfect but why are we so quick to let the perfect be the enemy of the good?

    It’s pretty tone-deaf to criticize layoffs on the same article that acknowledges their historic dependence on Google’s rapidly collapsing monopoly. Where is the money going to come from?

    A poorly thought out blog post about the only major browser that isn’t built on Apple, Google, or Microsoft.




  • Then why did you post this?

    Those familiar with the Clinton-era Reinventing Government push say it holds lessons for both how to remake the federal bureaucracy and the comparatively meager savings that can be achieved from such an effort.

    “We did it without a constitutional crisis,” said Elaine Kamarck, who ran Reinventing Government as a senior Gore adviser in the 1990s. “Unlike these people, we didn’t think there were vast trillions in efficiencies. … Their mandate is only to cut. Our was: Works better, costs less.”

    “It requires speaking out. It requires saying, ‘That violates the law, that violates the authorities of the executive,’” said Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska.