Also bluntly, her background of being Chinese and Swiss is a good look if they plan on marketing internationally. Her age probably plays a big role. No one wants to follow a company with a CEO that’s too old or too young.

You mean not cis straight white old western male, got it.

Perhaps try to interact with other people on mastodon instead of expecting to grow a follower base? It ain’t tiktok, ya know?

having them understand what a “federated platform” is, is too much to ask

Email is the usual analogy.

trying to find a Mastodon instance to make an account on was irritating.

Your average person will just land on mastodon.social without bothering to read the TOS… i mean rules, you know that.

And you missed a real key argument: network effect. If average person’s friends are on platform XYZ, that’s where average person will be (although this is stronger with messengers).

Mastodon gives you an autoscrolling firehose of unfiltered junk on all, or an empty wasteland of subscribed tags, with nothing inbetween.

If only people make an effort… most mastodon clients allow you to configure the timelines and if you have an empty wasteland of subscribed tags well, you’re subscribed to some very niche stuff… try posting about it, maybe others are listening - that implies effort, though, so be careful.

Ink bombs like some ATMs have.

Echo chambers are on par with human nature: we fear the unknown and flock to like-minded people. It takes a degree of discomfort to read something you don’t agree with (explained rationally and with civility) and trying to argument in kind - it’s easier to down-vote and here we are…

compartmentalisation and fungibility of devices

<insert thumbs-up emoji here>

Feats of memory anyone can do | Joshua Foer

Fairly private.

Sorry, couldn’t resist.

Isn’t simpleX the new kid on the block? Or Session?

That’s what i thought, but what does it count as legal presence?

I can be a company with headquarters in France and using Hetzner as my provider, the server i use being in Finland. Do i follow french law or both?

Not a lawyer.

For real.

There’s a mastodon bot… but it’s one-way of course.

You need to raise kids better instead of delegating that job to the internet.

LibreSpeed is harder for your ISP to add to QoS filters.

I meant BIOS is way more limited in scope than UEFI and that’s a good thing.

Although since the limitation was most likely due to hardware of the day, i don’t know how would a modern BIOS look like.

Who would’ve thought replacing a BIOS with what’s essentially a micro-computer would open a can of worms…

“All platforms in the EU have to have a dedicated page on their websites where it says how many user numbers they have in the EU and where they are legally established,”

I think that’s standard on mastodon and pleroma instances.

Under the DSA, platforms with more than 45 million users in the bloc qualify as “very large online platforms” and need to follow stricter content moderation rules under the commission’s supervision.

Clearly defined rules? How interesting… but moderation is a thing on the fediverse so, meh… maybe mastodon.social has to worry about it.

Smaller platforms are still required to comply with the law, but are regulated by the EU country where they have a legal presence. That’s so far unclear in the case of Bluesky, which was created expressly to avoid a centralized ownership structure.

And yet they’re not decentralized yet… if ever. Anyway, servers are physical.

A while back i was looking for instances in the EU and while a few claimed to be from a few different countries, their servers were all in Helsinki…

Herbivores are a thing in Japan… it’s a way to curb humanity’s growth i guess.

The method developed by the researchers involves placing VVF power cables in a glass reactor where they are subjected to microwave radiation. The pyrolysis carbonizes the PVC insulation, exposing the copper wire and allowing it to be easily recovered.

So putting cables in a microwave to melt the plastic?

This was achieved without the generation or use of toxic chemicals. The researchers explain that during the pyrolysis, the PVC insulation underwent rapid dichlorination and carbonization, which prevented the formation of harmful byproducts such as tar, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and dioxins.

This may be an improvement…