You are not comparing like for like.

Twitter is pretty much 20 years old, so are Facebook, Reddit and YouTube.

In addition, they were essentially first of a kind in their niche.

The fediverse is not even a teenager and the growth spurt hasn’t set in and may never. In addition, the fediverse is utilitarian by comparison, not much beyond proof of concept. Apps, platforms and instances are fragile and evolving.

Basic things mostly work, but it’s not “cool” enough to tempt organisations to join, media companies, etc.

We barely agree on how things interact with each other, for example, Mastodon uses hashtags, Lemmy doesn’t.

Lemmy has communities, Mastodon doesn’t.

It’s not that one is better than the other, it’s still being worked out by the community.

You also have to remember that there have been many “failures” along the way. Geocities, MySpace, Usenet, AOL, bulletin boards and bang path addressing. The fediverse might succeed, whatever that means, or it might not.

I’m a user on Mastodon, Lemmy and Bluesky, they’re evolving day by day. I’m not sure if I could tell you what I like or dislike about each, they’re just different.

I suspect that this is about to get very interesting.

TIL about mosquito dunks

I would love to read this article, but the number of advertisements on every screen full with a sign-up panel at the bottom make this impossible.

I can’t decide if this is real or an advertisement for the linked article service. I don’t see any CVE in the article which seems to be a good indication of the quality of the content.

I’m not saying that this is misinformation, but I’m extremely sceptical about the nature of this article.

I can’t decide if this is real or an advertisement for the linked article service. I don’t see any CVE in the article which seems to be a good indication of the quality of the content.

I’m not saying that this is misinformation, but I’m extremely sceptical about the nature of this article.

You should know:

https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

Scott Manley has a couple of things to say about the fallout. It’s not good.

https://youtu.be/aaR6yEE-Myo

Scott Manley has a couple of things to say about the fallout. It’s not good.

https://youtu.be/aaR6yEE-Myo

With a little luck it will experience a “Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly” before the IPO 😁

I want to make sure that the schmucks who financed this abomination in the first place pay dearly for it, rather than fleecing the subsequent hapless small investors and the rest of society who don’t understand and will buy into the hype.

Can we please have the bubble burst before the IPO?

I have some bad news for you … the rest of the world outside school uses even more paper.

The word you’re looking for is … abomination.

The word you’re looking for is … abomination.

Because they’re likely not all using the same data. Some will be time delayed, from a different weather station, averaged over a different period, any number of variations.

https://archive.org/details/inventingrealit100pare/page/n1/mode/1up

1. The temperature on the phone is likely an official temperature, measured at a specific location, under very precise conditions.
2. The thermometer is in full sun, which is not at all either standardised, nor under any controlled conditions, for example, you’re holding it and your temperature is 37°C.

Temperature is measured like this:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-28/how-do-we-measure-heat-official-temperature/106277628

Have you considered that the temperature displayed by the phone comes from the internet, rather than an onboard thermometer?

If it helps, it’s the only thing I think of wherever I encounter it, bus lines, taxi numbers, number plates, street numbers, you name it.

So, yeah, I think it’s funny.