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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • Leave blocking communities and instances to users. If you don’t want to see “extremists” in your All page, block the community. Block the users in the comments.

    Defederation should happen based on the instance community’s collective decision (no vote was done for defederation) and when an instance is actively working against the rules of a federated instance. Hexbear has not shown itself to be breaking the rules or to be planning to, and the arguments used by the world admins were all opinions and not based in reality. The admins of hexbear specifically made a post telling their users to respect federated instances rules.

    Yes, the users are opinionated - but that in and of itself isn’t worth defederating with.

    Mind you I’m not about to start asking to defederate from world, but I’m still kinda worried that this type of preemptive defederation is going to be the norm for world.









  • As a proud member of the fuck cars community, I wish the US (and Canada) would invest in their national public transportation systems. It annoys me to no end when people go “but the country is soooo big it would cost so much money” meanwhile you have a functioning passenger train system running through the majority of Europe, fast train systems through most of China, Japan, South Korea…

    The problem is that landowners aren’t willing to make space for rails, and unlike most countries, the railroad companies have no interest in passenger trains.

    Invest in public transportation, get rid of 30 lanes highways and city centres, promote bike lanes and public transportation, tram busses, subways, LRT, anything. Make your cities more accessible. Ban cars, idk







  • I know this sounds strange. This could be totally innocent, but I’m bringing it to people’s attention.

    Whenever I use new software from Github I try to learn a bit about the coders.

    In the case of Fruittopia, according to Github, it’s The Coca-Cola Company.

    When I signed up for the IOS Testflight it said that the creator was Minute Maid. Strange, I thought and looked up that name. That’s what led me to this DailyMeal News article and one from the Globe and Mail Pick with care: Some juices are soft drinks in disguise. It’s not a common juice name so seemed strange

    When the app was finally released on iTunes it contained the name Minute Maid, again, in the listing (check on the cached Google results page).

    But now when you check the iTunes Minute’s name is gone, and it’s listed as The Coca-Cola Company. Are they trying to hide something?

    This all seems suspicious, and before I trust the app I was wondering if anyone knew the real story behind this. Is this the same person? Why the differing names in the Itunes store and on Github?