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This definitely has been the narrative recently. Not just from Bland Altman but also from other billionaires it seems.

Love this but I will say that “IRL enshittification” is absolutely a thing. Just take shrinkflation for example.

I say this as someone with a nebula account and likes to watch stuff from nebula: I strongly dislike their website. My biggest annoyance is I can’t go to a specific creator’s page and search for videos that I know exist, I have to scroll through their entire history searching for it.

I had a mental health professional suggest using ChatGPT to make a day planner, it fucking floored me. We are not in the majority here and it sucks when that sinks in.

Interesting post from Fedora on this https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/california-age-verification/181968/6

Yep. Grabbed mine a few years ago because of the writing on the wall. I’ll treat it like those old school hardback encyclopedias.

Hm well Britain did try to fine 4chan. Amusing conceptually but it does mean they’re not above picking on website owners for not complying with their rules, regardless of where they are based.

I find it also helps the cost is the same as old Nitro was which is pretty affordable IMO.

You’re not wrong, but I agree with the person above you. I have an RSS feed but whenever something really stirs my interest I generally want to share it with someone and get their takes on it. Genuine discussion, even if it’s vanishingly rare, is still something I crave.

Fluxer. It’s struggling a bit with the influx of users but the dev has been working feverishly to patch, should be smoother at some point this week. Current patch is in testing now.

Agree headline is misleading. “Walking Back” implies reversing course, that is not happening.

Plus we all know how great AI age verification is. Big empty “reassurance” there.

They do have those things from what I can tell.

One of my friends’ husbands brought it up, so good old word of mouth.

I did notice I wasn’t able to get logged in last night, though the night before I was able to make an account without issue. I wonder if they got a hug of death like Stoat did.

https://github.com/stoatchat/self-hosted

Apparently collapse is profitable

I got the self hosted version up and it looks like it’s a much older version than their current iteration which was a kick in the teeth. Nothing discouraging quite like “Well you can self host if you don’t mind a worse version of the product”. Like my dudes I’m trying to take some pressure off of your server…

I like Cinny

Fluxer apparently has that on their roadmap. https://blog.fluxer.app/roadmap-2026/

As part of #3, I’d also like to add the ability to publish forums to the open web. That way, people can discover, archive, and access discussions without logging in.

And an AI summary

Pretty sure it depends on the server and the community mods.