I'm not surprised they struck it down, but I guess the jaded side of me is surprised they allowed him a different avenue to do the relief instead of making the whole concept illegal.
Also, there was talk from the Republicans about try to force everyone to pay back the interest we would have been paying this entire time. Somewhat surprised they didn't agree to that as well.
Just be careful. That only works because your instance already knows about those other instances because someone already interacted with them. If you ever want to join a community on a non-popular instance, you might have to be the first person to search for it by copying and pasting.
What part of Mastodon do you struggle with, if you don't mind me asking?
That sounds awesome. How did you find that the first time around?
How does Proton work? Is it another application like wine?
What kind of cat is Rufus?
Us and New Jersey I think are the only two now.
Well, good news on that front, the house and senate passed a bill to let us pump our own. As long as Kotek signs it, it would go into effect immediately.
Meta's attempt to fill the twitter void. At one time it was going to be called Barcelona, but now it's apparently going to be called Threads. Coming to a Fediverse near you later this summer.
I was hoping to get free time back by ditching reddit, but now I'm spending a lot more time in the fediverse, mostly here and Calckey. At least the content and vibes are better here.
It really does. My first thought was a lot of cities where it's run down and depressed and the more hipster artsy types show up for the cheap property and make something interesting. Eventually the affluent catch wind and show up to take advantage of what was created and price the originals out.
It was way back at the beginning when @ernest made the change to make upvotes on kbin more closely aligned to Lemmy, but boosts also bump a thread to the top of the Active list and give it some number of points for it's score in the Hot list.
It does also affect reputation, but ignore that. It's broken, doesn't really affect anything, and Ernest has a lot of other important things to fix/implement before tackling that one.