Thanks to everyone who got out on the street for a #NoKings or #NoTyrants protest today.

Do you wish me a happy birthday, 2026 edition?

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Is it OK to use walled garden social media to promote the Fediverse?

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Thanks to everyone who responded to the poll and commented.

Does the Democratic Party have a plan for putting the era of far-right populism behind us?

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@card card please?

Also I just lost @thegame

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Is it more important that Fediverse instances can have different moderation policies, or that all Fediverse instances have the same moderation policies?

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How many things can you carry?

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The last time you voted, how did you return your ballot?

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Personal computers were introduced around 1975 and were widespread in offices by 1985. The Internet was widely available by 1995.

Yes, there was a cohort of people who grew up and became adults without Internet-connected computers in their lives. Those people are dead. Baby Boomers in their 70s, 80s and 90s used networked PCs 40 years ago.

The idea that grandmas and grandpas, much less parents and aunts and uncles, are inexperienced with technology is obsolete and meaningless. Enough already.

Hey, all. Very interesting. So, I've mentioned this a few times in the comments, but I've done a survey of about 85,000 servers that have been seen by existing live servers. Of those servers, about 32% reply successfully to a Nodeinfo request. Nodeinfo is a per-server statistics endpoint.

Of all the ActivityPub servers that have ever been publicly available, how many do you think are still up today?

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I tried to include dine-in, take-out and delivery in this question, but feel free to answer as you'd like. The stakes are low.

Over the last 7 days, how many of your meals were made in a restaurant?

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Does talking about a problem make it better?

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So, I guess my answer would be no, but sometimes you do not ok things because the alternatives are even less ok.

Thanks everyone. I thought of this the other day when I was at the new Montreal Metropolitan Airport in St. Hubert. I had a big drink that I didn't want to throw away or finish, but I also needed to use the washroom. So I took it into the humongous men's room, brand new and completely empty, left it on an untouched sink, and watched it from 20m away. And it still felt very weird!

Bathroom, washroom, restroom, loo, WC, lavatory, powder room. I did not want to list all the synonyms. If you don't get the idea, feel free to skip the poll.