RxBrad

The thing about WordPress federation… Nothing shows up outside of the actual blog unless it was published after the federation happened.

Again, this is all in context to teens bullying each other over having the “wrong phone”.

Unless, of course, you’re saying a teen might bully THEMSELF for having the wrong phone. The different-colored bubble is for only your own texts.

Google’s messages app also uses different colours for SMS and their RCS.

Um. No, it literally doesn’t.

In a group text, the bubbles are all the same color. Each person’s name that shows up above the bubble is a random color that corresponds to nothing.

If you start a one-on-one text chat with someone, there’s a little speech bubble 🗨 that shows up next to their avatar in your list of chats if it’s an RCS chat. That’s the only way to identify RCS chats.

EDIT: Also your messages on your phone are dark blue for RCS messages you send, and light blue for SMS/MMS messages you send.

There mere existence of green & blue bubbles is entirely an Apple thing.

As an Android user, I don’t know what type of phone the person I’m texting uses unless they tell me.

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Oh, terrific.

Let’s just make every single functionality in cars be a separate paid subscription service.

Switch to a PAYG account. Continue to use Always Free resources. Still pay nothing. And don’t get your account yoinked for underutilization anymore.

That’s worked for me so far, for almost a year now. (knock on wood)

Communities are going quiet.

Bots posting links to AI spam websites are taking the place of the old posters & commenters.

Moderation is non-existent, and spam sits unchecked in /c’s like mildlyinteresting.

There are a lot of Firefish companies out there.

I worry a little that they’ll need to rebrand again in the not-too-distant future.

ruudfish.world

You only have to look at the dev’s pinned posts on their Firefish account to see what you’re talking about.

I’d asked the dev (on the official Firefish account) whether there would be a Docker release for the latest hotfix beta, and got a lecture and an “unamused” 😒 emoji reaction. That was kind of the last straw after dealing with some fairly broken federation on my selfhosted Firefish server.

So, I’m back on Mastodon after a month-long experiment with Firefish.

Web search is rapidly getting worse & worse, unfortunately. Thanks, AI & SEO-chasers…

I’m not sure federating is retroactive on any of these platforms. (EDIT: Except possibly Akkoma?)

So any posts you made prior to installing the plugin won’t show up anywhere outside of your actual WordPress blog.

I’ve definitely noticed the spam, and had to unsub from a couple kbin communities on my own. I’m pretty sure !fediverse@kbin.social was more spam than not-spam…

I see what you did there.

Heck, I didn’t even state an opinion.

The venom in the replies is real, though.

I find it interesting that many of us ran screaming from the corporate Algorithms that warped our brains for the last 10+ years.

And now we’re trying to put algorithms here.

Kind of a bummer that only the content you post after installing the plugin actually gets published anywhere. But that’s federation.

Duck spez, but in the good way?

I like old school Final Fantasy. But I also like a good braindead story game. And that’s pretty much what 16 is (well, as braindead as it can get when the game has a built-in Pepe Silvia string map to explain what’s going on)

Even on the “hard” not-story mode, if you happen to fail a boss fight, your second try is in ultra-easy mode. You get all of your potions back, and the boss is at half-health or something.

Last year Google had a thing for past customers where if someone used your code when they bought a Pixel, both you and they got a $100 voucher.

Those expire on the last day of September.