There’s war in Europe. Climate change is fucking up the world faster than we can respond, and America is burning to the ground physically and metaphorically as we speak.

Tensions are a bit high.

I thought content simply didn’t federate retroactively, but only started when the first user from an instance subscribed the community. I’m probably wrong, but then again this seems to indicate I might be right.

Short answer is no. But I figured maybe a more detailed answer could be nice as well.

They are gradually implementing ActivityPub integration, which would make them a part of the Fediverse. At least that’s what they claim to be doing. I’ll believe it when they’re done.

They are implementing it in several steps. Be aware that this is subject to change - it could be that it has changed already since last time I got up to date, but as nobody seems to have provided a better answer yet, here we go:

• For a while, Threads users outside of Europe can enable ActivityPub from their profile page. If they do so, it’ll be possible to follow them from the Fediverse. In Europe this feature is missing, because Zuckerburg is bitter he cannot spy on us as much as he would like to.
• Threads users can see comments and likes from the Fediverse, though it’s kept separate from comments made in Threads. So far they cannot respond back to users on the Fediverse, so they cannot participate in the discussion, only see the comments.
• Threads users can follow Fediverse profiles, but not in a particularly meaningful way. It seems they can enable notifications for new posts from users on the fediverse, but the content is not integrated in their Threads stream. They also cannot search for users: They can only interact with Fediverse users that they find somewhere on Threads. So if you follow someone on Threads they can follow you back; if you comment on a Threads post and people like what you’re saying, they can follow you from your profile and follow you from there. However, they cannot look up Fediverse users who have not communicated with Threads in any way.
• The Fediblock thingy makes the Fediverse a bit smaller seen from Threads. Not really a big deal for them, but if you’re on an instance that blocks Threads you obviously won’t have much success communicating with them.

So Threads has a long way to go, but a lot of the technology seems to be in place. They receive comments and content from the Fediverse to Threads, and they shoot content from Threads out into the Fediverse. It’s just that they are keeping everything in separate channels over at threads, and they do not yet allow for federation of comments in Threads to allow for back and forth discussions.

One hell of an album.

I don’t believe you
You got the whole damn thing all wrong
He’s not the kind you have to wind up
On Sundays

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

According to Wikipedia, anyway. I’m not sure what you think England is.

Part of a political system is that it changes, but the House of Lords for example has roots back to the 11th century. Sure, things change through the centuries, but it’s wrong to say they are not the same. The US has gained states and amended the constitution as well.

England is England. They have laws going back until before any of that. There’s continuity all the way. Joining a union does not mean your country stops existing.

France invented constitutionalism and you were the first to adapt it after them. That’s important political history, but don’t overestimate yourselves.

England has been the same kingdom since the early 10th century.

…or disppeared. Lots and lots have disappeared.

The US has been around for less than 250 years. That’s less than four times as long as the Soviet union, which didn’t even last a lifetime.

And America’s issues are uniquely American. It has similarities to feudalism in France, but it is not at all the same.

This makes me wonder if drummers have a dominant hand. Except Rick Allen of course.

The capitalists are in charge, but they are also utterly fucked.

The last thing you want to do with a spartacus-type enemy is to make them a martyr. They already fucked up by parading him around with those guards while he looks like the second coming of Christ. Nailing him to the cross is not going to solve any of their problems.

Related to this, but also not really, is how I feel as a right handed person playing guitar.

I mean, sure, the right hand is doing some picking, but the left hand is up there doing all the clever stuff and the right hand has no idea how it manages to do any of it.

That’s a bit convoluted, but glad you found a workaround!

Do you find Instagram is still working well for you for this purpose?

I signed up due to popular pressure at some point, and in the beginning the chronological feed was very nice. I would use it maybe once a week or less, and like the stuff my friends had posted since last time.

Then over time, my friends’ content started drowning in I don’t even know what. Sometimes I would see a post or two, but I would never see everything they had posted since last time. It just didn’t work as a platform to use for consuming a finite amount of content.

I ended up abandoning ship. But it sucks a bit, as my friends might still be on there posting things I would have been happy to see.

I think commercial social media is literally ruining the world. I decided to be active on here to give alternative platforms legs to walk on. Every single post and comment here makes a significant contribution to stick it to the man - it’s a slightly more viable alternative with every user. Well, maybe except the assholes.

On Mastodon, I post for professional self promotion/reach. Taxpayers pay me to write stuff, so I owe it to them to try to communicate it back in open channels.

He was a democratically elected leader from the left in Latin America. Not being murdered in his sleep could be considered special concessions.

That sounds like it would get very expensive very fast.

In a way, it makes sense to me.

If the big bang was not unique - and why would it be - it makes sense that it would rather be infinite. It exists outside of time and reason, if it is not singular it doesn’t make sense to think that it only happened a finite number of times.

If it happened an infinite number of times, everything that could happen will happen in one of the instances. That’s just math.

So I guess I think it’s a reasonable idea.

However, I don’t know if it makes sense to me to think in terms of these worlds actually existing. After all, they are by definition not a part of our world, which I think would be a reasonable definition of existing.

I heard Stephen Hawkins was playing around with the possibility of connecting to other words. If that is possible, it would make them real by my definition of reality. I don’t personally believe such a thing would be possible. But I know far less about the topic than Stephen Hawkins.

I have little patience for memes, and even less so political memes. The right wing stuff is all woman hating fascists, and the left wing stuff are people who would send me to a camp or chase me out of the country for having a slight disagreement with them on my specific take on socialism.

There’s often no room for discussion or disagreement, because “its a joke”. So at that point it’s just political brainwashing, no matter which side it is on.

Of course, sometimes it’s fun, and sometimes it’s good. There’s a role for humour to play in highlighting injustice and systemic absurdity. I’m not completely against it. I just have little patience for for it.

Which is why I mostly use this platform to look at pictures of owls.

Very different from Jojo Rabbit of course, but fantastic for showing what humans can come to consider the trivialities of ordinary life.

I’m very happy I saw it in the cinema. Also very happy I was somehow completely oblivious to the thematic when the movie started: I first saw the swimsuits, thinking “huh, is this the 30s?”. Then I heard the German, at which point I realized nothing good was going to go down. I guess the sound during the intro also gave a hint.

Anyway, amazing movie. Worth seeing without distractions.