herid @herid@qoto.org

Preventing people from viewing ads on your website that’s funded by ads is just insanely good business

Yo dawg… https://youtu.be/YE9rEQAGpLw (via @ccgus)

Still can’t believe Elon built the backend servers from out-of-spec carbon fiber and a logitech controller

Are you new here? Giving this place another try? Welcome!

I've been here for a few months and the best advice I've gotten so far is: Follow a lot of people. Like a lot. Like way more than you would have on the other site.

If you're worried about losing track of certain people/issues in the flood of your Home feed, use lists (and the advanced view on the web interface): https://mastodon.social/@design_law/109358875682926700

#FediTips #MastoTips

A side note: I cannot recommend any of the other private alternatives to Twitter, including Bluesky, Spoutible, or Post.

Any private platforms are subject to the same risks that have befallen Twitter. Also, Dorsey and Musk share the same worldview. Mastodon is at least open, and your data is portable.

Students are such grifters. Why should I pay for your student loans? Make better choices. Get a job! Anyway, can't stay and chat, off to meet my billionaire buddies for a fishing trip in my honor on an otherwise unoccupied (and therefore worth $0) private jet flight to laugh about forgiven PPP-loans

1/ Angry mobilised Russians have recorded themselves having a verbal confrontation with an officer. It's rare insight into the relationship between the soldiers facing Ukraine's counter-offensive and their frequently absent commanders, whom they say have abandoned them to die. ⬇️

This is hilariously stupid. I mean, just painfully stupid. And, yes, it's real.

WSJ: #Wagner's #Prigozhin planned to capture #Russia's military leadership as part of his mutiny and accelerated the plan after Russian intelligence learned of the plot undefined

https://breaking.iavian.net/article/339550

Here is a most compelling story about the Toronto Star's alleged saviors who ended up in a huge pissing match that left the paper vulnerable to be taken over by the hedge-fund-controlled PostMedia.
https://torontolife.com/city/star-wars-inside-the-vicious-battle-for-control-of-the-countrys-largest-newspaper/

Ottawa families without a family doctor need to know about the Kids Come First Health Team’s catch-up campaign for routine childhood immunizations against measles, mumps, rubella, pertussis, chicken pox and other infections:
https://www.kidscomefirst.ca/en/kids-come-first/vaccinate-and-up-to-date.aspx

"Toronto Star owner Nordstar, Postmedia discuss merger citing 'existential threat' in industry" – CBC

The biggest existential threat to a free press is mergers like this.

They're just concerned with the threat to their profits and to their monopoly over content.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/toronto-star-nordstar-talks-merger-postmedia-1.6890659?cmp=rss

1. The US murder rate is down an 12% year-to-date, based on 90 cities that have released data.

If the trend holds it will be the single largest annual decline in the murder rate ever recorded.

And yet, you probably haven't heard anything about it.

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Looking for an alternative to Reddit?

One of the mastodon-like alternatives is Lemmy. Here’s a scrolling list of Lemmy communities (think subreddits), with a search field pinned at the top.

I am in learning mode. All recommendations welcome!

https://browse.feddit.de/