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Cake day: Jan 04, 2023

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There’s an entire industry that harvests content from archive.org for modern ad spam


It’ll follow the enshitification path of every other big-tech site, give it time.

If you can’t wait, https://gitea.com/


Specifically, Mozilla plans to scale back its investment in a number of products, including its VPN, Relay and, somewhat remarkably, its Online Footprint Scrubber, which launched only a week ago.

I just purchased an annual plan for Monitor, partially to help Mozilla. I guess this is my thanks



What about 2013 seemed more favorable to the fediverse than now? Twitter, reddit and Facebook were pretty useful at that time - I don’t think I’d have left.


Unfortunately, at the time of the raid, our admin was troubleshooting an issue and working with a backup copy of the Kolektiva.social database. This backup, dated from the first week of May 2023, was in an unencrypted state when the raid occurred and it was seized, along with everything else.

Oh the FBI just happened to visit when they unencrypted the database? How convenient!


FBI claiming it’s for non-Mastodon related reasons, but that could be a cover. https://kolektiva.social is still up

Regardless, I don’t think they even have to ask to get this sort of data from any of the big platforms.


Yeah choose one,

  • 12 websites written mostly by templates that are keyword-stuffed to sound like your question, and one might contain an answer in the 8th paragraph.
  • A response from a bot that’s unreliable, but extremely specific to your query.