It isn’t

Is federation still whitelist based?

There used to be Neanderthals (homo sapiens neanderthalensis) and a few others, we basically interbred them out of existence.

It’s part of the reason I’m a transhumanist.

You can get the seller to declare it as a gift and put a low value on it.

There’s also reshipping services that let you do that, or at least there used to be, it’s been a few years since I used one.

play “integrity” should be considered malware, any program that deliberately does something the user doesn’t want it to should.

Too much.

Groups are useful for local stuff and niche interests.

Once you join a lot of groups you get a lot fewer “suggested” posts.

It’s pretty much the only social media I use.

UniGetUI basically a package manager for windows, can auto update libre office.

PosteRazor - cuts up images to print on multiple sheets.

Krita - image editing

Inkscape - vector graphics

I was hoping someone had made a federated extremely specific e-commerce platform.

Facebook ads are possibly the only ones I don’t find overly annoying, but then I can just scroll past them quickly if they’re uninteresting.

These are mostly UK focused:

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/ Largest co-operatively owned newspaper in the UK, has links to the communist party of Britain.

https://skwawkbox.org/

https://www.thecanary.co/

I don’t think the plurality of software is a problem, as long as they inter-operate correctly, but otherwise I agree.

One of the reasons bluesky took off better than mastodon is the lack of friction in signing up.

Possibly related bug report: https://github.com/tgxn/lemmy-explorer/issues/191

Unfortunately the people’s front of Mastodon defederated from the Mastodon People’s front.

what can a ten year old do(besides mass murder & accidents) that messes up their life so badly that it is unrecoverable?

kill their own parents (it’s not technically mass murder until you’ve killed three people).

As a pacifist (at least in the technical sense) I’m bound to disagree with you on that, but I also think the ones that are stupid enough to have swastika tattoos or even just publicly call themselves nazis aren’t really the ones that we should be worried about. The ones that are really dangerous wear a suit and tie.

As someone who’s used android literally since the first android phone was released, it’s a massive disappointment how locked down and enshittified it’s become.

Unfortunately your fictional rich guy probably survives, since the majority of the Hindenburg’s passengers survived.

People have to choose a server with mastodon, and you can’t just pick any server because of the mess of defederations.

I’ve volunteered for a few charity shops (UK version of a thrift store) in the past, the weirdest thing was the trash people would “donate”, like used diapers.