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• On the post: Lazy Reporters Claiming Fediverse Is ‘Slumping,’ Despite Massive Increase In Usage

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2023 @ 09:56pm

  Flagged for being pure unintelligible drivel

• On the post: Lazy Reporters Claiming Fediverse Is ‘Slumping,’ Despite Massive Increase In Usage

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2023 @ 09:55pm

  "This reeks of whataboutism" I'm pointing out that (a) when something new comes along, enthusiastic people are gonna enthuse and (b) if you're bitching about some very mild pimping of Mastodon, you must be new to the internet. Not whataboutism. It's history. Maybe you're too young to remember Twitter's early days, or Livejournal's start up. I'm not, and your complaints are silly.

• On the post: Lazy Reporters Claiming Fediverse Is ‘Slumping,’ Despite Massive Increase In Usage

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2023 @ 02:55pm

  Can we please can it with the homophobic insults?

• On the post: Lazy Reporters Claiming Fediverse Is ‘Slumping,’ Despite Massive Increase In Usage

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2023 @ 02:54pm

  It makes no money

  Therefore Mastodon is a failure whatever happens, you see?

• On the post: Lazy Reporters Claiming Fediverse Is ‘Slumping,’ Despite Massive Increase In Usage

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2023 @ 02:54pm

  Really, no

  "some of the userbase need to dial it back a little with the evangelism" Polite suggestions that people will be happier and safer anywhere but Twitter and oh hey, look at this wonderful option, aren't half - not enough 15 - as annoying and insulting as Twitter evangelists shitting on everything to do with Mastodon in the mainstream media. Also, I remember the early days of Twitter. You want to see evangelism? It was EVERYWHERE AND INESCAPABLE. So, really. No. The word needs to get out that people can move so they will move. Twitter needs to die if Musk continues to own it because what he's creating is an active force for evil in the world. No hyperbole.

• On the post: Lazy Reporters Claiming Fediverse Is ‘Slumping,’ Despite Massive Increase In Usage

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2023 @ 02:22pm

  "blogged" =="blocked" No commenting before coffee, Anathema

• On the post: Lazy Reporters Claiming Fediverse Is ‘Slumping,’ Despite Massive Increase In Usage

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2023 @ 02:21pm

  Every accusations etc

  "Jesus fuck you’re desperate" Says the troll who lives to be flagged and blogged on a complete strangers blog because he is in thrall to a pimple-brained shitbird who has more money than sense. Please do bugger off, there's a good chap.

• On the post: Lazy Reporters Claiming Fediverse Is ‘Slumping,’ Despite Massive Increase In Usage

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2023 @ 02:19pm

  Mastodon is great

  I'm having a wonderful time at Mastodon. My stress levels are much lower since I ditched Twitter completely, even though last year the prospect of losing it sent me into a serious depressive spiral. That was because there was no obvious replacement. Now there is. Social media is important to me and a vital way to combat isolation. There really are as diverse a range of people to follow on Mastodon as there are on Twitter, with far fewer of them there to drive engagement with their blogs, TV appearances, or books, or to sell something. Follow freely, mute liberally, reboost joyfully and often. If I can manage to build a nice happy niche for myself there, anyone can ;)

• On the post: Pretty Much Every Expert Agrees That Elon Has Made Twitter’s Child Sexual Abuse Problem Worse

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2023 @ 01:33pm

  But but Elon is a GeNIus!

  Another subject on which he knows nothing, not enough to know how little he knows. Only this time, it's not just empowering Nazis, it's destroying the lives of little kids. So much for his heartbroken statement about holding his dying son in his arms* meaning he could never allow harm to come to a child.** *He lied **He lied

• On the post: Elon Promises A Free API For ‘Good Bot Content,’ Again, Demonstrating He Has No Idea How Any Of This Works

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2023 @ 09:25pm

  "Maybe your parents were so bad that you cycled back around to being reasonable" Or maybe your theory makes no sense and has no relationship to how people judge Musk

• On the post: Court Gives Its Blessing To FBI’s J6 Geofence Warrant, Denies Motion To Suppress

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2023 @ 09:23pm

  "there needs to be probable cause" To get a warrant etc, or arrest someone. Not to ask questions. Or investigate the person without involving them. In this case, the fact they were only looking at people in the Capitol who had no right to be there, means you've got probable cause straight up. You're misunderstanding me. If there's a fight and police are called, they are going to question bystanders as to what happened. Then they will narrow it down by discovering who knew the victim, who hated the victim etc. But the fact people were there means they might know something. Now take a murder victim to the house. The first people the police will talk to is anyone with access to the house, or who saw the victim recently. Then they narrow it down from that. They can't possibly start investigating until they know who the guilty party. The whole point of the initial investigation is to work who could have done it, and then focus. It's absolutely the wrong way to go about it to decide who did it and then focus on that person before they rule out other possible suspects. I mean, maybe the police are different in the USA. But in Australia and the UK, that's how they do things. You can even watch them explain it all on Youtube ;)

• On the post: Court Gives Its Blessing To FBI’s J6 Geofence Warrant, Denies Motion To Suppress

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2023 @ 06:03pm

  "simply round up people" There is no 'rounding up'. People might be questioned, as always happens in any investigation, let alone in a big chaotic event like Jan. 6. Stop catastrophising.

• On the post: Court Gives Its Blessing To FBI’s J6 Geofence Warrant, Denies Motion To Suppress

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2023 @ 06:01pm

  The troll farm isn't sending its best :(

• On the post: Court Gives Its Blessing To FBI’s J6 Geofence Warrant, Denies Motion To Suppress

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2023 @ 06:00pm

  "they turn the entire process on it’s [sic] head" Not really. Any investigation looks at anyone within the vicinity with means, then narrows it down to those with motive. Jan. 6 is a unprecedentedly large investigation so they have to sweep wide.

• On the post: Elon Promises A Free API For ‘Good Bot Content,’ Again, Demonstrating He Has No Idea How Any Of This Works

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2023 @ 02:43pm

  no, I experienced very unhealthy parenting, and I still think Musk has a few brumbies loose in the top paddock.

• On the post: Elon Promises A Free API For ‘Good Bot Content,’ Again, Demonstrating He Has No Idea How Any Of This Works

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2023 @ 02:42pm

  Oh this is brilliant! Your satiric take on the usual trolls here is pitch perfect! Unless you're serious, in which case, you're a braindead foot licker.

• On the post: It’s Time To Codify The ‘NY Times v. Sullivan’ Standard Into Law

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2023 @ 02:31pm

  I think it's ironic that SCOTUS can take away the right of American people to control their own reproduction, and the outrage is mostly expressed by reproductive activists, with silence from far too many in the left wing. But if SCTOUS threatens to take the right to talk shit about how ridiculous Donald Trump is*, then that's what gets people really talking seriously about judicial reform and legislating long-held legal precedent. Not aiming this at you, Mike. Just all those guys who think "well actually, there could be good reasons to restrict abortion" without giving a shit who else it hurts. *I'm totally in favour of common folk being able to talk shit about Trump or anyone with power. I'm also totally in favour of free, safe, legal abortion on demand, as often as needed.

• On the post: No Immunity For Cops Who Shot Man Multiple Times, Then Searched His House For Evidence Of ‘Assaulting An Officer’

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 03 Feb, 2023 @ 09:01pm

  I can't wait to see how the right wing trolls justify the killing of a man sitting in his own car, in his own driveway, doing absolutely nothing, until he ran away after being threatened with lethal force by what must have looked like a crazy man to him. Poor bugger :(

• On the post: Trump Files Ridiculous Copyright Lawsuit Over Bob Woodward’s Audio Book

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2023 @ 06:04pm

  Not even as elegant as Cicero's dog!

• On the post: Trump Files Ridiculous Copyright Lawsuit Over Bob Woodward’s Audio Book

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2023 @ 06:04pm

  I'm utterly bemused at the idea of anyone paying anything to listen to that man's repulsive voice, let alone his senile wittering.

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