Portion of the modified Twitter TOS that goes into effect today (it’s on right now), as summarised (ironically) by Google’s Gemini:

“In simpler terms, this means that when you share your content (like text, images, or videos) on the service, you’re giving the company permission to use it in various ways. They can copy, modify, distribute, and even use it to train their AI models. This includes sharing your content with others and using it on other platforms. You won’t be paid for this, but using the service itself is considered enough compensation.”

@bender@twtxt.net Ahh I see 👌

@prologic@twtxt.net true. I was thinking more on Yarn’s/twtxt size (as it’s today). I find it attractive to have the ability of having a small group of GtS instances that only, and exclusively, federate with each other.

Not really sure how this is similar at all teally as Yarn like every other twtxt client just fetches feeds you tell it to? 🤔

Perhaps I should have said, a “similar […] thing as Yarn” instead.

While on a small community topic, GoToSocial recently implemented the ability to run isolated instances that will not federate openly with the rest of the Fediverse, but that will allow administrators to federate exclusively to other instances (silos), creating a similar, actually more restricted, thing as twtxt. See GoToSocial Federation Modes.

@bender@twtxt.net I hear ya 👌 I feel very much the same 😅

@prologic@twtxt.net yes, this community being much smaller makes it easier to interact. I didn’t interact, or didn’t interact much on BlueSky, so I sowed what I ripped. As I have grown older I have found myself less inclined to socialise in bigger places. One of the reasons I feel fine here, and on the Fediverse.

@bender@twtxt.net LIL 🤣 Starting to wonder whether maybe I’m the one that’s wrong here? 🤔 And have a warped sense of the terms distributed and decentralized? 😅

@wbknl@twtxt.net I prefer vellum to write my stuff. It lasts longer. 😂

@prologic@twtxt.net what I, poorly, tried to say is that you could run those “key services” if you want. Again, I know you have a certain fixation on what’s decentralised, or not… LOL, so start fixing it by changing that Wikipedia entry! I believe in you! 🙈

@bender@twtxt.net Just because you can run it doesn’t make it decentralised. As @doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt rightfully points out, where are the points of controls? It’s a distributed network with a protocol that forms a “network”. With key services operated by BlueSky this isn’t decentralised in the true sense now is it? 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net I recommend its Wikipedia entry is edited then, if you are completely certain.

“Bluesky is a decentralized microblogging social media service primarily operated by Bluesky Social, PBC.”

That I know of, you can run the PDS, and pretty much everything else.

@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club I’m feeling slightly better (though my sinuses are still giving my grief 🤦‍♂️) so I’ll try to answer this and properly state my position on the proposed minimum age restrictions being proposed by the Labor government.

Firstly I think it’s completely ineffective and unenforceable. The only way you’re going to get this enforced is to somehow makes all the “big tech” companies oblighes, which some already are. But then you can just work-around it anyway. Okay if you start requiring things like state-enforced age verification like a driver’s license or something, then things start getting even more weird.

Frankly I don’t think it’s the right approach. I think it will ultimately achieve nothing. It’ll be just like the many numerous attempts at banning alcohol and drugs. Once you’re addicted, there’s no way you can stop people from indulging in stupid crap that may possibly kill them.

The only way out of this mess IMO is to educate people, educate the parents and to make it practices of targeting, categorization and the manipulation of content based on metadata either you or a 3rd-party questionable obtained illegal.

In other words. The very foundation of what “bit tech” social media companies thrive on. Make that illegal. Problem solve. But oh wait?! 🤦‍♂️

Giving paper notebooks another try. I love paper notebooks. The problem is that I’m very chaotic writing my ideas.

@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt This is such a good response! 🙌 You are absolutely right in that Bkuesky is not decentralized 👏

Oh shit maybe not 🙀

I think it’s fixed now eight?

@xuu@txt.sour.is wut?! 🙀

So helpful 😮‍💨

Error: Error deleting last twt

Nope. 😐

Can I edit this twt?

@xuu@txt.sour.is I think my backend stalled and I somehow managed to post in the past 🤣 For some reason I’m noticing more performance problems with yarnd of late. Need to look into them…

Why is the rooted post after the replied post?? time shenanigans?

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@aelaraji@aelaraji.com LOL!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de wow, indeed it is supper bright, and kind of broken, when not logged in.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de it is still dark for me, but I am logged in. Hmm, let me check…

@New_scientist@feeds.twtxt.net No they don’t.

„Junge, du bist zu dünn. Du brauchst mehr Speck!“

Okay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTDwPnfTXXU

twtxt.net lost its dark mode? It’s glaringly bright now. 😎

@prologic@twtxt.net Nah. twtxt + Mastodon is enough social media for me. 😅

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org yeah, Yarn doesn’t work well without it, just tried it.

@bender@twtxt.net Try blocking JS.

@prologic@twtxt.net see my profile.

Well, crap, and now it is. This is so odd. Things do not work sometimes, then sometimes they do! 🤯

@prologic@twtxt.net, the new line character. \u2028, is no longer being rendered right on the description metadata.

@prologic@twtxt.net trying out as in? I have a BlueSky account, using my own domain, but I do not longer host a PDS.

@bender@twtxt.net Hah looks like you get more interactions here 🤣

@bender@twtxt.net Ok 🙏

@prologic@twtxt.net oi! :-D I think it is fine as is right now. My vision isn’t as good as it used to be, and my display is not the “standard” size. Phanpy uses a pretty neat slider on its settings that allow you to set the default size. I will query its developer to see what he has to say.

@bender@twtxt.net Can you suggest a better default font size that works well on desktop and mobile? 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net quite good, under Linux. I had to zoom in a notch, as the default is a tad small on my 27” display. But I do that for many websites.

How’s that?

@bender@twtxt.net II’ll try it 👌

It’s the font stack that Phanpy uses. It works quite well under Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows.

@prologic@twtxt.net, I think font-family: ui-rounded,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Segoe UI,Roboto,Ubuntu,Cantarell,Noto Sans,sans-serif; is a better font stack than current for Yarn web.

I have grown used to, and to love, the Ubuntu font. It is highly legible.

@prologic@twtxt.net yes.

Glad to hear you are okay, buddy.

The web is such garbage these days 😔 Or is it the garbage search engines? 🤔