You know, like any “free” app does. Wordpress can throttle who can see you as well. Unless you’re on world or similar, it’s pretty open on Lemmy.

I really like this idea. Being able to have a blog that directly feeds into Lemmy sounds great since Lemmy doesn’t really speak to a lot of other apps.

Do you mean like Wordpress? The upselling and throttling alone. I haven’t used it in years, maybe it’s better?

That makes your warranty expire faster. It’s not in the users favor.

I saw an ad for Amazon telehealth a couple of weeks ago. I’m not digging the times we’re in. I also hope we don’t look back on this time with nostalgia.

A coalition of major record labels has filed a lawsuit against the Internet Archive—demanding $700 million for our work preserving and providing access to historical 78rpm records. These fragile, obsolete discs hold some of the earliest recordings of a vanishing American culture. But this lawsuit goes far beyond old records. It’s an attack on the Internet Archive itself.

This lawsuit is an existential threat to the Internet Archive and everything we preserve—including the Wayback Machine, a cornerstone of memory and preservation on the internet.

At a time when digital information is disappearing, being rewritten, or erased entirely, the tools to preserve history must be defended—not dismantled.

This isn’t just about music. It’s about whether future generations will have access to knowledge, history, and culture.

In March 2025, Secretary of State Marco Rubio launched an AI-fueled “Catch and Revoke” effort to cancel the visas of foreign nationals who appear to support Hamas or other designated terror groups. This program relies on the AI to scrape people’s social media to revoke visa applications of people who have been protesting Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. As of early April 2025, at least 600 people have apparently had their visas revoked because of this AI monitoring, a massive incursion into people’s right to free speech, freedom of assembly, and the right to protest.

The speed with which social media monitoring is growing is staggering. As of March 2025, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) has been working with web-scraping contractor ShadowDragon to pull data from over 200 different sites, social networks, apps, and services across the web to map out a person’s activity, movements, and relationships.

I was thinking the same thing. I remember a study going around, but I don’t know enough about it to comment.

There is a lot of data out there in the US, they’re trying it in a lot of places.

Okay, I didn’t know he had Aspergers, but that doesn’t excuse his racism.

Elon Musk opens up on how Asperger’s has impacted his life

The other broligarchs looked around Zuck’s bunker and couldn’t understand how it had gotten this bad. The expressions on their faces, one by one, changed to horror realizing that this is what they signed up for.

No problem. they are great currently.

And it’s amazing that others [who have been] in this room underwrote electing a man who, in the last week, single-handedly destroyed all of American science. It’s amazing how much good science you can destroy with $320 million and RFK Jr, very fast.

Thanks for inspiring our dinner tonight. That looks delicious.

The UI was pretty bad before, it took forever to get people to understand what was going on. Now it’s just a few tips and tricks and people are off and running. They did a great job.

Blender did an amazing job with their overhaul. I really don’t know why anyone would use anything else for 3d modeling. I’m hoping they pump up their CAD features, but I understand if they don’t.

Yep, and then everyone will go start looking for another option again. I hope they don’t, but those CEOs got get their more millions paychecks so they can stand up straight at the country club, somehow.

Project Nimbus: https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-google-project-nimbus-israel-idf/

FYI, Affinity was bought by Canva, this is probably an advertising. Affinity will probably enshitify in the next release. Hopefully not, but who knows.

I’d say it’s more like a right that’s been taken away and they’re okay with that.