At least GOG is getting into mod management too.

Astroturfing doesn’t translate well IRL.

Having people shooting themselves up in public bathrooms doesn’t negate the sanitary benefits of having public bathrooms. It’s just an excuse for having poor public services.

Yes

That’s the point of digitally signing the app, to ensure its authenticity and integrity. TM and others wouldn’t be able to resign the modified app with the Signal Foundation signature.

EDIT: Yeah after thinking more about it it’s not a trivial problem, as you need to assume that the endpoint is inherently untrusted.

At the moment you can’t. The only realistic way I could see that happening is if the servers would check the app’s digital signature and refuse the app from communicating with the official infrastructure if it didn’t match.

No thanks…

Partially, just because there is the ability to bridge it (ex: https://fed.brid.gy/), but I expect them to pull the rug at some point.

And followed from Mastodon at @lillypip.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy :)

Correct, you simply follow https://bsky.app/profile/ap.brid.gy :)

FYI bridging with Mastodon doesn’t require a Mastodon account on your end, it will make your account accessible to be followed by Mastodon users, and even recieve replies from Mastodon users if they also bridged their accounts.

Would you mind bridging your Bluesky account with Mastodon through https://fed.brid.gy/ ?

I’d follow you through Mastodon.

That’s because “Bot account” is enabled in your account’s settings.

If they make you feel happy, don’t listen to them. You may even get good enough to a point where you could make a decent living out of it, if not then you still learned something that could end up being useful when combined with something else.

She’s the definition of gaslighting. Starvation and physical violence are not part of a healthy education.

You still need to actively moderate the instance no matter what, but having registration applications makes it easier to weed out most of the bad stuff. It also stops a cross-instance spammers who makes multiple accounts with the same name from posting until they get approved (which I check when the application form is somewhat generic).

My 17 years old account is dormant.

Would be nice if it could be set as some kind of post / comment metadata, hidden from view but there in the code.

That would make a nice Linux-based gaming PC for my kids that is for sure.

I had Tchap in mind.