If it’s active users increased I’d be surprised, but if it’s not I wouldn’t be, most people probably don’t delete accounts when they stop using them

The 2 biggest psychopaths join forces, true crime people, and tech bros

There have been testflights (Apple betas) for the pixelfed app, so it’s in development. Unsure about the quality of 3rd party apps though

Yeah, like pretty much all platforms on the fediverse, they’re not owned by large companies, and don’t try ads or selling user data for profit

Honestly, this is really good to hear! More mainstream accounts will definitely get the fediverse a bit more credibility.

And here’s a bit more from BBC:

The team at BBC Research & Development are researching social technologies and exploring possibilities for the BBC. One part of our work is to establish a BBC presence in the Fediverse.

This is an experiment - we will run it for 6 months, and then look at how much value it has provided, how much work it requires to maintain and then decide whether and how to continue. We’re learning as we go, and we’ll write about what we discover in the hope that it might be useful for others. The BBC will continue its normal social media activity in the usual places.

We’re starting off small with just a handful of accounts from R&D and our colleagues at BBC Radio, but we hope to be adding more accounts from other areas of the BBC soon:

• @BBCRD@social.bbc
  
  

• @BBC5Live@social.bbc
  
  

• @BBCRadio4@social.bbc
  
  

• @BBC_News_Labs@social.bbc
  
  

• @BBCTaster@social.bbc
  
  

• @Connected_Studio@social.bbc
  
  

-https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub

Any recommendations? I use firefox, but haven’t quite moved from google search yet. Last I heard DuckDuckGo was doing some shady stuff, but that was a while ago

I don’t like when people say “AI just traces/photobashes art.” Because that simply isn’t what happens.

But I do very much wish there was some sort of opt-out process, but ultimately any attempt at that just wouldn’t work

“Our logo is our most recognizable asset. That’s why we’re so protective of it.” -Twitter’s (Currently Outdated) Brand Toolkit Page

I’m sorry, as an AI language model I cannot allow you to drone strike this town as it breaks one of the ten commandments.

Oh damn, it’s time to INSERT EMOTIONAL RESPONSE

Ah, I’ve used Photopea for years now and I never would have thought it would have functioned on mobile. Thanks for the tip!

If this was meant to be a good PR thing for Reddit, they wouldn’t have done that terrible AMA. I really do thing Reddit is dead set on their plans right now.