THE WORST OF TIMES ARE WHEN LAWYERS HAVE TO FORCE THEIR BIGGEST SMILES!!!

Friend created. Initials (“MJL”) became word! Makes smile.

There was (maybe still is) a cake shop in Southgate, North London. About a minute from my old flat.

The cakes in the window display rarely changed, if ever.

The guy running it looked like if you imagine the toughest prisoner at a prison, only wearing an apron.

About 50/50 whether the glass would be smashed whenever you walked past.

It was often “open” and had people coming in and out of it at 2-3am when I came back from nights out.

And there was a drive-by shooting right in that area while I lived there, that I always assumed was related. 😅

In the smouldering aftermath, some politicians, keen to shift the focus from social inequality, have muttered darkly about the role of BlackBerry Messenger, Twitter and Facebook – frightening new technologies that, like the pen and the human mouth, allow citizens to swap messages with one another. Some have even called for the likes of Twitter to be temporarily suspended in times of great national crisis. That’d be reassuring – like the scene at the start of a zombie movie where the news bulletin is suddenly replaced by a whistling tone and a stark caption reading PLEASE STAND BY. The last thing we need in an emergency is the ability to share information.

– Charlie Brooker on the 2011 London riots

In-sta-gram

Although I’m only saying that to be contrarian, I do actually agree with you 😬

Squeeze to activate Google Assistant, from the Pixel 2 XL (and maybe others, I don’t remember)

Funnily enough @fer0n@lemm.ee does seem to work in the Liftoff app, but I guess there maybe isn’t a standard yet. 😃

There’s a subreddit called r/lostredditors. For people who somehow ended up posting in the wrong subreddit. I was just referencing that. ☺️

Oh, that’s interesting… guess I might be “moving to Turkey” haha… 😏

(Has anyone made a “Lost Lemmings” community yet? 🙃)

Oh, I’m sure they are. I just mean, if The Masses are going to try anything, it’s going to be the easier of the two options (with loads of marketing behind it). :)

Yeah I haven’t been bothering recently, I gotta be honest. The m0nkrus releases are just too easy haha.

Is the hosts file hack still worth doing, or just go into Windows Firewall and take away its internet access?

Yes, to all of this.

UX people probably call this “friction” or something. I think the fediverse currently has too much “friction” for the average person.

Whereas with Threads it’ll be as simple as tapping the “Continue using Facebook” button. 🤔

Although, people have been saying that since Ellen Pao and Voat… 😅

I think you’re right to a point, but also, the whole fragmented fediverse thing is going to have to… at least be simplified if the “lurking voter” mainstream are going to end up here.

Me (enthusiastically):
“It’s federated, so you have to choose an instance! They’re all different, but they can all talk to each other! Some of them have different rules. Oh, and they can all have their own ‘videos’ community, so you have to decide which ones you want to follow. Also some of the instances are kbin and some are Lemmy, but most likely the website you log into won’t be called either of those things. And if you don’t curate your own frontpage (which doesn’t even show your subs by default) you’ll just see everything at once!”

Average Internet user (starting a new Facebook account because they forgot their password):
“reddit dot com has funny gifs on it”