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Fediverse seems like its stabilizing: https://fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=1000

Decentralized social network Mastodon says it can’t comply with Mississippi’s age verification law — the same law that saw rival Bluesky pull out of the state — because it doesn’t have the means to do so.

During the Great Depression, when banks foreclosed on farms, neighbors often showed up at the auctions together.

I'm sure I'd be preaching to the choir if I told you that it's time for us to immigrate from übercorp owned social media and services. All of you have done so, so that's not the point of this post. Even though we are on these new platforms, the fediverse is still sensitive to requests from governmental bodies and organizations. Lemmy.zip has already blocked UK users and Lemmy.world will almost certainly do the same. Due to the size of Matrix's biggest homeserver matrix.org, the admins of said homeserver are beginning to follow the OSA and have already raised their minimum age to 18+. And instances who don't follow the Act could be subjected to insurmountable paperwork and even blocked from the UK, Australia and other countries enacting these outrageous laws soon.

Hello World!

A useful source: https://worldofsockets.com

The admin of the Mastodon instance cyberspace.social just received an AI powered notice to delete the parody account @microsoft@lea.pet

They shouldn't be able to do that!

https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/

What about similar oddities in English? (This question is inspired by this comic by https://www.exocomics.com/193/ (link found by BunScientist@lemmy.zip)) Edit: it's to its in the title. Damn autocorrect.

This always annoys me. I land on a site that's in a language I don't understand (say, Dutch), and I want to switch to something else. I open the language selector and... it's all in Dutch too. So instead of Germany/Deutchland, Romania/România, Great Britain, etc, I get Duitsland and Roemenië and Groot-Brittannië...

I've only been abroad one time, and there were little gecko/lizard things everywhere, climbing up walls and scurrying across roads, and nobody cared. I was constantly fascinated but to the locals they're just kinda there.

(A funny meme for you, if you’re wondering about the picture)

Thank you, everyone who contributed! And thank you, Framasoft, for providing free and open services like it to everyone!

post: https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01JY2NBJEASW1E21NFJ0NZ3GDC

Hello, its me gabbo the creator of this hellsite. I am totaly not making this post to make sure that lemmy federation works properly

Not sure if this the appropriate place for it but the FOSS communities seemed dead.

Call me crazy, but I a) think the fediverse probably doesn't have more 'toxic content', harmful and violent content, and child sexual abuse material then other platforms like X, Facebook, Meta, YouTube etc, and b) actively like the fediverse because of that.

Leslie Knope for me!

Here is a video of android apps:

The wine is just for the adults

An open source, self-hostable music platform will soon allow people on the Fediverse to buy music and support artists. Here's why it's a big deal.

I want to buy a tshirt that features the “Catholic saint” style Luigi art, but I don’t want to support some shitty t-shirt shill in the process. Ideally I would like to buy from somewhere that will donate a portion of the proceeds to his legal fund.