On most chat platforms when a person joins the channel/room/whatever a notice will be sent to all users indicating the user entered the chat. It comes from old IRC servers.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Has entered the chat

High-frequency trading has entered the chat.

Might be a you issue then.

ketamine consumption intensifies

What’s it say? All I see is ************

It really has changed. I noticed it a few months back. Subtle rightwing and like, morbid “shock” content and even some animal abuse started popping up more and more. I just gradually started using it less and less, it was pretty obvious what was going on.

I have no idea why people just jumped to another billionaire owned walled garden when Mastodon is sitting right there.

It’s time to start being afraid of the cult of elon.

He’s said he’s going to donate $45m per month to Trump until November. It’s becoming very clear he bought out Twitter to suppress free communication of people.

He sees which way the wind is blowing and is hoping he can help install Dictator-for-a-day Trump who’ll deregulate every industry and cut every tax that might apply to him.

Just checked and you’re right.

But still, that’s the beauty of federation to me, they’re still using the same interoperable standard so if I want to see them I can spin up my own instance or find one of the ones they still federate.

That was a year ago, the fediverse was (and is) growing by leaps and bounds; basically all instances were dealing with DDoSes and huge waves of obviously scripted account-creation. AFAIK beehaw federates with both of those instances again.

I’m pretty ambivalent about federation. If an instance wants to be a private forum and not federate that’s up to them and a valid use case I guess. I personally prefer instances that federate with basically everyone and let me block per user/instance myself but to each their own.

A restaurant that doesn’t have milk is a probably a shitty restaurant anyway.

What kind of kitchen doesn’t have milk in it? Even the hardest-core vegan cafe would have some kind of passable milk substitute right?

Next thing you know they’ll be saying they don’t have salt.

Clom!

This concludes my Raxas Alliance talk.