There was a brief push for people to leave BlueSky right after a few people were banned right after the Charlie Kirk murder, but my observation is many people who flirted with Mastodon (look for the #fuckaas tag and accounts on the fuckaas.space instance) in that time stuck with BlueSky in the long run.

also, a black man was elected president. I think the rural racists without Internet still heard about it.

not for organizing resistance to corrupt governments, as it doesn’t have E2EE.

The problem with your comparison is that you’re physically sending your kids off with other people, and there are physical limitations on participation. Of course it’s encumbent on the organization employing those people to make sure they’re trustworthy (same for the adults who are volunteering to be responsible for the children). In the same way, Discord is responsible for making sure that their own employees aren’t abusing and preying on the users. They are expected to investigate any reports of abuse by either their employees, scouts, or adults volunteering. Just as Discord is expected to investigate any such reports, too. There are absolutely things to hold digital platforms accountable for to make things safer. But face scans and uploading government ID doesn’t accomplish that. We hold platforms to account by auditing their response to abuse reports and any failures in their privacy and security controls and if they can’t manage that then they should be dissolved.

Even just since I posted my comment, there’s now this new link making my front page on piefed

https://www.404media.co/free-tool-says-it-can-bypass-discords-age-verification-check-with-a-3d-model/

Residential IPs aren’t static. VPNs exist. Residential ISP proxy services exist. Cloud providers exist from every inhabited continent. Tor exists. Determined predators and bad actors will get on the platforms and can get verified at whatever age group they want.

If we pretend otherwise instead of educating the children on how to recognize predatory behavior then we haven’t protected them at all.

When Roblox rolled this out kids were using AI tools to perform the face scan. Kids have easy access to sneak their parents’ ID to upload in secret. Predators can use the same tactics. So we haven’t gained any security, but some people will be caught up with having their real data made vulnerable.

The only real solution is for the parents/guardians to be engaged and involved in their childrens’ lives. That means I have to occasionally invade their privacy and look at their communications, but more importantly it means I have to tell my children about the predators and what kinds of things predators will say to them. It’s impossible to child-proof the world around us, we have to world-proof the children themselves.

indeed they should not.

Corrupt governments in the past have been toppled thanks to organizing on discord

Matrix, Signal, Proton/Tuta are much better suited to that purpose.

Trying to sign up for days but I have yet to receive a verification email.

And following them … Emma Watson all throughout the Harry Potter series.

Millions of pounds per hour?

Thanks, that’s where I was assuming. Like I want to believe, given the population spread throughout the state it seems reasonable to think there should be more left-leaning voters. But take for example this blurb from that site:

Texas voters do not register by party. However, when those voters participate in a partisan primary, that ballot choice is recorded and reported on the state voter file. In the absence of stronger indications (e.g. partisan political contributions or identification due to the holding of partisan public office) the most recent even-year partisan primary ballot is used .

But the 2024 primary turnout were 1.8M Republican ballots and 831k Democratic ballots. And that’s actually up vs the 725k Democratic primary ballots in 2020 (vs ~1.9M Republic ballots that year)! So that doesn’t add up.

We do know that there are otherwise-Democratic voters who vote in the Republican primaries because the districts are gerrymandered such that the primary is basically the real election (looking at me here).

This information is supplemented through the use of modeling analytics. Likely race in major urban areas plays a major role in that modeling.

I wish they would give more info than this.

Where did you get that number from? Texas doesn’t have party affiliation on voter registration. Affiliation is automatic when you vote in a primary and expires at the end of the calendar year, and I be surprised if we’ve ever had bigger turnout for the Democratic primaries during my voting-age life.

Things like this need to be prosecuted as negligent manslaughter.

Can’t really categorically say one way is best or worst. Depends on the individual arena (location relative to you and transportation options, suitability of the arena to the sport, concession prices, concession quality, weather if the arena is open), the teams playing, the personality of the other fans near you, your own personality. It’s all good.

These shitbags need to be impeached and removed.

Yeah, the Hanson song. People complaining about ‘mm bop’ as a chorus hook while unironically liking ‘ba wit da ba’.

Everything I’ve said is everybody is categorize as a teen unless the provide face/ID verification. So anonymous should still be allowed in general, just not to servers/channels set as age restricted.

I always chuckled over people liking that song while hating on Mm Bop.

More than he can count to

at least not without taking his shoes off.

Yes. Kristol clearly fears his might.