but there is no real way around it in the Netherlands.
The way around it is to force everyone to learn how to load Signal. If they can’t overcome this incredibly tiny step, you must excommunicate them from your life. It’s harsh, but to be fair, they had a 30 year head start and still can’t figure it out.
I think they’re saying the friends and family don’t understand or can’t/won’t figure out the alternatives. If you want to text them you have to use Messenger.
It’s sad, and familiar. All of my extended friends and family on Windows I just have to give them a sad look, like, “Aw. Poor thing.”
Currently supported countries include:
Austria, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands – with many more regions coming soon!
Bro. Harsh.
iirc it’s the reason Signal didn’t have gifs was the data leakage from them
You just wanted a pepsi! And they wouldn’t give it to you!
Because no one made a droolproof guide to migrating to Mastodon and Bluesky put money into it.
For people who can’t remember their password, it’s preferable.
What do you expect from a bunch of lazy T_D chuds, bots, and n00bz
Ha haaaa! Right? Up top!
True. Another aspect is if there are one’s own comments in that thread, they don’t show up either. (Of course they still do in the Comments account section)
It seems when a user is blocked and comments on a thread, any comments under that are also blocked. It should only be blocking that user, not the thread?
Managing unpaid volunteers is its own kind of headache
Oh, right. Like that’s gonna help. Pfft.
(How was that)
Yeah, but also would be interested in how you put it together.
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Uh, sure. Now is good. Several years ago was better, but, yeah.
It happens with anyone. Bots track expirations and snatch them so that they can ransom them back to you for thousands - exactly as in OPs example.
AUTO RENEW. Auto-renew. Auto-renew is the way. The solution to this problem is Auto-renew.
Cool, thanks for the link!
*Still, as the first day of I/O wound down, it was hard to escape the feeling that the web as we know it is entering a kind of managed decline. Over the past two and a half decades, Google extended itself into so many different parts of the web that it became synonymous with it. And now that LLMs promise to let users understand all that the web contains in real time, Google at last has what it needs to finish the job: replacing the web, in so many of the ways that matter, with itself. *
I had actually read this article the day it came out, but I didn’t think too much of that paragraph until a couple days later at a dinner full of folks working on decentralization. Someone brought up that quote, though paraphrased it slightly differently, claiming Casey was saying that Google was actively putting* the web into managed decline*.
Whether or not that’s very different (and maybe it’s not), both should spark people to realize that this is a problem.
Our bots have sucked up everyone’s sites, so screw your web we got it all at the Evil Store.
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Yep. Almost like the mind-altering power of television should have been taken seriously instead of laughed off and supercharged into an always-on ubiquitous device we mostly equate with our actual personhood.
We could actually address it now. No time like the present, eh.
Boom.