Wasn’t there a shitstorm recently because someone made a bluesky-mastodon bridge.

(there seems to be a shitstorm when anyone does anything vaguely imaginative with mastodon though)

Yes, but that data doesn’t include user IPs.

I would hope a piracy instance is hosted somewhere that doesn’t care about such things as American court orders.

Wasn’t this person like 14?

Bots can buy phone numbers, hell, they can solve most captchas better than humans.

There’s a reason why Telegram is flooded with bots, Signal as of now has not been.

Telegram requires a phone number, so it clearly isn’t working.

It was the original purpose of the bitcoin algorithm to limit spam.

If you have to do a lot of maths that takes your computer (for example) 30 seconds, that means it costs 30 seconds of compute to create an account. Nothing to an average user, for a spammer that wants thousands of accounts it gets expensive.

Several captcha[0] libraries already use this and it’s great for accessibility (normal captchas are terrible for it)

[0] I know, it’s not technically a captcha.

It’s doing an absolutely terrible job of stopping spammers.

They could just stop requiring phone numbers, which would be a lot more privacy friendly.

Not a service I would use personally, but I imagine a feature to automatically split it based on play time would be useful.

Yeah, no amount of bending the knee will ever be enough for censorious extremists.

I think I need to clarify.

I support mask wearing, I wore one despite being legally exempt on health grounds (autism).

The fact is covid is still here, if anything wearing masks at a large scale gathering like a protest is still a very good idea on health grounds, especially for those with weakened immune systems, the unvaccinated, etc. It’s utterly mad to ban a protection device you once mandated when the problem it protects from never went away.

First they force you to wear masks in public, then they ban it. Fucking clowns.

Conservatism is about preserving the status quo. (As opposed to reactionaries that want to restore the status quo ante)

A μm at best.

According to a random employee on hacker news, later this month they will have open federation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39274882

As always, caveat lector.

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me.

Just strange to me that a much more well funded organisation didn’t do better.

I’m guessing the bureaucrats are very well funded.

Probably died down because they de-federated nearly everyone.

But regarding immigration they are hard right

I guess the neolib definition “hard right” includes Friedrich Engels now, given what he wrote about immigration.

Ah, my bad, I read the “A” as an “O”. I’ve never heard of rakuten.