No. It’s decentralized like the Fediverse, but it doesn’t use ActivityPub. I think there are some 3rd party developers working on an ActivityPub-Bluesky bridge, but nothing concrete yet.

The new Twitter CEO, who we know is really just there to take the fall for Musk’s bullshit decisions.

Considering how surnames originate, that would be interesting finding out just what the ancestor who first used that name did in order to be known by it.

“You’re looking for Jack? There’s Jack the baker, Jack the tailor, and there’s Jack from down the street. He doesn’t really do anything, but he’s good enough.”

Considering that this is the most hated person on Reddit other than spez himself, no tears were shed.

By default, everyone’s a guy on the internet unless stated otherwise. Some people just know the name and that they’re a powermod and not much else. Also, they’re apparently trans or claims to be, so there’s a subset of people who’d misgender them on purpose.

Of course they’re claiming responsibility for the John Oliver thing. Considering their history, I doubt it. But even if they were involved, it’s the community at large that was responsible for the John Oliverification of Reddit.

It’s not going to have a direct material effect, but it’s going to affect perception. There are already people cautious about corporate influence on Linux, and a Linux distro getting closed like this is going to be seen negatively. While Fedora and RedHat are separate entities, they’re close enough for one’s perception to rub off on the other.

Unlikely, considering they didn’t try to clear up the confusion and that they continued replying as if they were LJ Dawson.

This is not the real Sync dev, it’s someone pretending to be him. The real account for LJ Dawson is @ljdawson. He confirmed that via his Reddit account. The community he established for the Sync for Lemmy app is @syncforlemmy.

Yeah, the post history is dubious. I’ll wait for confirmation from his Reddit account, because at least I know that’s actually LJ.

Edit: This is not LJ Dawson, this is an impersonator. The real account is @ljdawson, and he created the community for the new Sync app at @syncforlemmy.

Still holding out hope that it will be platform-agnostic enough to be used for both of the Fediverse link aggregators: Lemmy and Kbin.

Not yet released, but a closed beta is coming soon at https://kbin.social/m/ArtemisApp.

Is there a way to report an account to the instance admins? So far, I’ve only found a way to report a comment. This guy has been spamming anti-LGBT hate speech across the Fediverse.

It temporarily boosts activity, but that’s useless activity. It’s not going to help Reddit in the long run, and in fact will diminish Reddit’s value if it goes on long enough.

The writers’ strike is still a thing, so who knows when the next episode will be. But hopefully they cover this when they come back.

Then you’re going to love this quote by Steve Huffman (spez) from a Q&A he did with GQ Magazine:

I think the problem Digg had is that it was a company that was built to be a company, and you could feel it in the product. The way you could criticise Reddit is that we weren’t a company – we were all heart and no head for a long time. So I think it’d be really hard for me and for the team to kill Reddit in that way.

That quote was from April 2023; it’s not even that old.

Could be a repost? I haven’t checked the community to be sure, but I know I’ve seen that same news link posted all over the place.