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new… from 2019… he’s probably moved on to Brawndo by now.

I have a few accounts that I go into once a month just to keep active on the longshot chance that one day he’ll give it up and a sane company or individual will take it over and clean house, and suddenly all of them have started getting these purple star notifications promoting updates from random accounts and probably 90% of it is rightwing nonsense like Elise Stefanik to far worse. A few of my accounts don’t have any blocks or mutes set, and almost all content in the For You section are from accounts I’ve already blocked in the ones I’ve actively managed. He is fucking delusional.

edit: I just went through to see what’s collected lately and several of them are getting purple star updates from Trumps and fucking catturd.

For anyone wanting to read the batshit nonsense statement attached to his tweet, here you go

Firefox Focus appears to let me play youtube without ads, but I’m unclear if it’s because I also have the Vinegar extension (which shouldn’t matter, since the extension itself says it only works in Safari.)

It’s a Safari extension for 1.99 USD

I just think it’s funny now when people get mad at the expression “age is just a number” because they assume you’re trying to justify being with someone under and outside your “acceptable” age range, when it can be the opposite. I remember a lady commenting on me being out to dinner with someone and said something to the effect of me robbing the cradle in an accusatory way, and my date told her that actually it was the other way around LOL

Well, probably the best way is to just post a piece of actual content, original or stolen (edit: I mean like a meme, anything that's recycled constantly), retweeted or whatever, with a reply of your own or a separate post that says something like "follow me on all my channels at" and list them. The common thread between these two services is that they are the main decentralized ones (but all other decentralized ones, like Pixelfed, the Instagram fediverse, suffer from the same problem), and it's that structure that throws off a lot of people. It took me a while, too, just because I had to research wtf was going on and figure out where to get started. There's one person on Twitter who sends out a daily reminder that they can be also found on bluesky, threads, post, spoutible, and their own website. Bluesky is the oddball as technically it's part of the decentralized landscape, except there's no decision making process at the beginning to choose what server to start on, everyone is onboarded at the same place. Regardless, that person would probably also add Mastodon to the list, if they weren't confused by the lack of a single choice.

But then people stopped talking about Mastodon on Twitter, other than maybe to just have their Mastodon address in their Twitter bio if anyone happened to look, and the Reddit exodus slowed down as all the motivated people were already on Lemmy and not talking about it as an alternative on Reddit.

And it is effective, which is why Elon has at various time blocked links to Mastodon, Bluesky, Post, etc, and then unblocked later due to backlash over the obvious double standard when he's complaining about freedom of speech so much. (Including Substack, which is where that Twitter Files guy Matt Taibbi tried to move his posts after his views tanked once Blue subscriptions and views got prioritized. I'm not a follower, just an observer on that one.) He's afraid of the competition, and people finding out where else to be. And right now is a perfect time to be doing this, because people on Twitter want to get away from the antisemitic twat running the place where nothing is censored or banned, and certain Reddit communities are still annoyed by bans, or having content posts deleted by high-up admins due to takedown requests from Nintendo, etc. Or discord servers getting banned for similar reasons.

It's just an issue of no ongoing exposure, and structural confusion from those used to a single place where everything happens for a platfrom.

Ummmmm… to a degree yes but also no. There's a subtle difference between just not being able to tell how young people of a population are, versus someone who is much older than you seeming so young that you're actually concerned about being thrown in jail.

Be prepared for a shock if you travel to some asian countries then. I’ve found myself uncomfortable that someone who seemed underage was trying to have a conversation with me, worried what bystanders might be thinking, only to be absolutely floored when it turned out she was my senior by a decade or more, with kids half my age. It took a while to adjust to that.

Is that also Santorum?

edit: yes, yes it is. unsurprising.

That’s a new one on me. Searching for it comes back with cute greeting cards. Can you tell more or have a link?

Good, too bad Kyle dodged it.