Worth noting he had some odd connection rooms to Epstein after it was public knowledge what Epstein was about.

https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/jeffrey-epstein-set-elon-musks-brother-up-with-a-girlfriend-in-effort-to-get-close-to-the-tesla-founder-sources-say/articleshow/73236620.cms

I think I said the opposite of that? Tempered glass does just suddenly blow up sometimes.

Anyway, I was a glassblower for 15 years and yes, mechanical stress builds up in glass over time as it gets bumped, tapped or knocked around. Small scratches and nicks can significantly weaken older glass too.

Mechanical stress builds up in glass over time, so like that stupid homemade submarine, it could have been weakened and finally just blew.

I assumed this was V8. Well… nothing to report here.

Maybe! Idk, I used to like mock duck. Soy based lunch meat is pretty good too. Alas, I’ll never be able to try this company’s stuff as it all has wheat in it.

Apparently this is a soy and wheat gluten loaf and is made in the Phillipines.

Ah, great… Musk’s buddy.

Definitely. Back when I used FB and Twitter I learned that reporting is entirely useless. You just end up with some automated message about how they reviewed it and it “didn’t violate their community standards” with some lame verbiage like “we realize this isn’t the outcome you were looking for”, regardless of how ridiculously blatant whatever you reported was. On the flip side, I was banned for clearly misinterpreted or brigaded comments, and then an appeal just gives you the inverse where they reviewed it and whatever you posted was definitely terrible and they “realize this isn’t the outcome you were looking for”.

Stongy

How many disks did this come on, haha? Like 40?

You can call it whatever you want. Email has been around since the 70s. Bluesky and ActivityPub sure have not.

Your rephrasing changed it qualitatively. Of course it takes no position on whether Lemmy is part of the Fediverse considering it now does not have the word Fediverse in it.

The mention of email is

Even so, much like how users of one email service such as Gmail can still send emails to users of another service such as Outlook, users may still view content and interact with users on any other instance in the fediverse

which implicitly says email is not considered part of the fediverse by comparing the two.

The others listed are bluesky, nostra and farcast. I suppose we could count protocols that nobody uses…

Fediverse is ActivityPub. Email is not, though the theory is somewhat similar.

I’ve had pine needle tea before. It’s pretty good.

Sega used this in their pioneering MMO from ~1999, Phantasy Star Online. “Beat Time”. The idea was to help you coordinate meeting times with people regardless of time zone. The problem was we had to convert it to regular time to have any idea when 725 beats was or how long 150 beats from now was.

I spent way too much time on Trexels for a while… silly little mobile resource management game. It became more ridiculous when I figured out you could cheat by changing the clock on your phone.

This is probably before your time, but it’s like when Usenet was opened to AOL subscribers. Just a giant flood of stupid people. Thankfully, we can defederate.

Other than that and what I mentioned about server resources, many people are here because we don’t like centralized corporate social media. Being connected to a meta service is against the principles of many on the Fediverse. Meta also might try to influence the protocol or open source projects based on it, and as you said, EE&E.

There’s a chance it could actually be good for mastodon and lemmy since there’s a good bit of publicity about it, and people could realize they don’t have to use meta and threads and could just directly use mastodon.

How could meta do that? The issue is that they’re adding federation to connect Threads to mastodon, Lemmy, Kbin and other systems that use it. Like any other instance though, administrators have the option to defederate, and I expect most will. Many already preemptively have them on their block list. If nothing else, it’s expected that being federated with threads would be very intensive in terms of storage and cpu resources, so it wouldn’t be feasible for most instance operators to be connected to them. Plus, it’s unpopular with most users. Meta does not have any control over the open source project or individual instances.