That communities can be moderated either through voting or moderation is no excuse to spam them because you’re too lazy to make a DM. How your instance wants to handle DMing is a whole separate matter.

If you want to share something with someone, share it with them. Tagging them instead of sharing the content in a normal way spams the whole Lemmy discussion with irrelevant comments.

Later, as Trump was walking through the White House colonnade with his chief of staff, Susie Wiles, reporters asked him what he thought of the sermon. He asked the group, “Did you like it? Find it exciting?” He then added that he “didn’t think it was a good service, no” and said they “could do much better.”

I like the implication that he’s a sermon critic and judging based on delivery from his long personal expertise in listening to sermons. Did he think the sermon telling him to be merciful just didn’t have the right inflection? Should it have included an anecdotal story to ground it? Maybe the sound system wasn’t well tuned?

Of course then I don’t like that this is the answer he gave and the media just accepts it as sufficient and ready to print.

He literally pardoned a Proud Boy leader with a 20 year prison sentence. Of course they’re going to see it as a go ahead to be more active and overt. Be loyal and the law can’t touch you.

I really don’t see how Cory’s view of enshittification doesn’t also encompass the powerful corporation embracing, extending, and extinguishing their own protocol to close any escape hatch. Especially when the key module is so monolithic and expensive.

They’ll make a proprietary update to their relay that conveniently makes it better and faster for their users while making it harder and more expensive for the alternative to keep up. They’ll add a special feature, but only build it out for their implementation and not figure out how to backport it to the public spec. Little by little Bluesky and the spec will drift. All while the alternative keeps burning money trying for something that, while Bluesky is still in the growth mode, provides no benefit. Eventually they give up or just can no longer be a real alternative, then the VC investors start asking for more and more and more. Corporate money isn’t just going to roll over and say “you got us, I guess our investments were just charity”.

But they might have soup splashed on their glass!