Olives @olives@qoto.org

https://www.thestage.co.uk/news/theatre-producer-accuses-payment-site-stripe-of-censorship Stripe accused of censorship.

Star Citizen is still a joke, apparently.

There was a parody of sites like this which had dozens of prompts. I can't remember what it was called.

And for good measure, they also added on extra prompts too, like ones to sign up to their mailing list.

Encountered a page with *multiple* cookie prompts.

The person spreading the disinformation appears to be doing so in order to promote themselves. I'd rather not give them that attention.

When I cover people like Andy, it's a bit of a balancing act. I don't want to inadvertently promote a bad actor's disinformation / malinformation.

Bluesky appears to have a small character limit.

Huh, is this instance now showing posts which have been edited?

Looking at the interactions and there is a Neo Nazi who rebranded herself as a TERF, an extremist, a QAnon TERF, another QAnon guy, and on the list goes. The interactions on the conspiracy.

Insane.

There are people who spend a lot of time on social media. I don't really want to spend a lot of time on social media. I like the idea of taking a break from social media even.

However, practically turning it into a job by paying for this or spending all this energy getting something setup (and it's not that private) kind of pushes things in that direction.

For a social network, I just want something that is simple and which I can get going on on the spot.

I don't want to fool around with phone numbers (we can partially blame the previous management for this one). I don't want to fool around with credit cards... For something as simple as just getting an account going. I see that and I just can't be bothered with it.

Maybe, for the sake of getting a message out, it might be meaningful, but I just can't be bothered with it.

I just find Twitter too difficult to use at this point with all the obstructions that the new management (and some of it, the old management) have put into place (even something as simple as creating an account is overly complicated).

And then, I'm told that the site is practically pay to win at this point, which is again another obstruction.

So, that is one reason why I don't bother with it.

In 2022, the NSPCC had a spokesman called Andy who behaved a lot like an Internet troll. Essentially all he did was try to stir the pot and behave provocatively.

He had extreme and weirdly opinionated views about tech which he aggressively pushed. He had a tendency of attacking people for fairly common tech worker positions like not wanting to criminalize end-to-end encryption.

Perhaps, because he became too much, the NSPCC ended up getting rid of him. Or perhaps, he left for some other reasons. In any case, he no longer works there.

In fairness, Twitter had a QAnon problem years prior to Elon.

It's insane how I don't pay attention to these people for a few weeks and they've already gone off the deep end.