Cross-post to “DadJokes?”

Imagine explaining this headline into somebody in 1990.

“Allergy butter” is my new name for Jif. Thanks.

YikYak, GroupMe, Ready Education, Remind, UniBuddy, Viva, etc. Etc.

Reposting this here from the discussion in !news@lemmy.world:

There’s a real argument for a Mastodon use case for news organizations, governments, and colleges.

If they’re just seeking engagement, then they have to wait for the platform to grow. But this isn’t about that.

Many news organizations already have comment sections on their website, and they want to push out information on breaking news as quickly as possible. They need a platform to do those things. So, a lot of them use Facebook for embedded comments on the page and Xitter to breaking news. The thing is that they could use mastodon for both, and run their own instance, which would give them total control and not be at the mercy of Musk or Zuck.

Colleges use expensive proprietary messaging apps for students, clubs, and teachers that they can monitor and adjust to fit their needs. Mastodon offers that.

Governments sometimes end up in legal hot water due to freedom of information, etc. that comes with corporate social media. Mastodon offers the freedoms and controls necessary to disseminate vital information and to allow or reject posts as required by local laws.

The point is that Mastodon is an effective public facing communication system that also allows internal controls by the host.

The only publicity and marketing budget that the fediverse has is us, so any opportunity to promote it is our job. Government, education, news. These are the vital areas to promote.

That’s exactly right.

Very cool! It’s a pretty specialized use case, but still awesome to see.

It struck a balance between good design, features and lack of bloat

Outlook enshittification is why I switched to Thunderbird over a year ago. It’s just gotten consistently better. Highly recommended.

Is that still working?

It’s a little bit naive and self destructive that human beings have created tools as powerful as mainstream social media with absolutely no checks or balances, absolutely no accountability, absolutely no transparency, and entirely at the whims of billionaire owners and nation states they’re in bed with.

Regulating and banning social media that is being used to blatantly conduct massive psyops should be uncontroversial.

{Astronaut “Always Has Been” meme}

Science is not yet ready to answer these questions

They say dress for the job you want…

I want my winamp skins back

Again, oh no, who could have possibly predicted this, except for everybody who said they didn’t make any changes after the last time.

Hot take, all apps look the same now.

Pineapple on pizza comes from Canada.

🌈🌟 the more you know!

“And you can too!”

Honestly, sounds like one of those made up sci-fi dates.