Sure, XMPP is a fine option, too. I don’t really care what the open format is, because converting between them is going to be frankly trivial once it’s extracted from the walled garden.

I tend to agree, but the internet amplifies polarization. Not a great thing for discourse.

I know why Discord isn’t offering that, but there are at least three FOSS options (Element, Stoat, and Spacebar) that could really use a good way to get content off of Discord and into an open format (sure, Matrix is a solid option). Any data that can be accessed publicly can be scraped, even if it’d take a while. I think one of those teams should be considering this.

That’s…literally what I’m saying with this comment.

I just want one of these Discord alternatives to code up a “migrate-from-Discord” script that admins can use to scrape all of their messages and media, save out their channel structure and access rules, and pull their user list for later mapping, and box it all up into some sort of standards-compliant package.

They keep saying we’re going to get left behind, but then they never actually leave.

I’m kinda thinking that by the time we get done with the other 11,000 (a thousand more happened between your comment and mine), Anthropic won’t be much of a going concern anymore.

Sure. But this is one of those stories that hits right down the middle in places like Lemmy: it’s a fascist government causing harm to a company with a long history of anti-human operation. It’s a total sweating-guy-two-buttons meme situation: “Trump is a fascist” vs “And Nothing Of Value Was Lost.” Seems like most people are picking a side. I think we shouldn’t.

It’s possible to not like AI and what it’s doing to society and the planet but also to be concerned about executive overreach and corrupt abuse of power.

“Their turd sandwich has vegetables in it” doesn’t excuse the fact that they took the ham sandwich off the menu entirely.

• 250 USD toaster with no ads

Minimal ads, come on, let’s not get crazy here

Yeah, I don’t know what the US malfunction with KFC is. Obviously capitalism, but beyond that.

City, but a small one. And yeah, food was good, but the floor and average were both lower there.

I moved to New Zealand six months ago, and I have had exactly one truly bad meal since I’ve been here. I haven’t eaten any Maori food, so I guess all the food I’ve eaten has been from another country.

The one that surprised me the most was KFC. We moved from one state away from Kentucky, and we had to come here to have truly good KFC.

I was expecting the Chinese food to be good here, but it’s really good. So is the Korean, Indian, and Malaysian food. The fish and chips are good. The burgers are great, even from McDonald’s. The absolute best was Filipino food from a tiny little restaurant in a random strip mall near Sylvia Park. That food changed my life.

In fairness, I have had a couple of “fine” meals—as in, “well, nothing special, but it was fine.”

The one bad meal was Pad Thai made by Thai people at a Thai restaurant down by the beach. It was just way too sweet, which makes me wonder if they saw me and made it “for a white guy” or something.

I feel like if you’re writing the sentence “an optional, paid version of our browser that offers Brave […] without its extra features,” you need to sit back and take a long, hard look at yourself.

A large number of culinary fruits aren’t even botanical fruits, yes. Most of them are botanical berries (and some things that aren’t botanical berries are still culinary berries). Conflating the two linguistic domains causes lots of problems!

They probably don’t even produce the bottles. They probably just put the water in the bottles.

Tomatoes are both a fruit (botanically) and a vegetable (culinarily). “Vegetable” doesn’t have a botanical definition, so the old aphorism about tomatoes “not being a vegetable” is trying to conflate terms from two different domains and hoping you don’t notice.

iirc, paintball marker is slightly translucent, right? So maybe like…a sticker?

Could be where your VPN is hosted. If your traffic appears to be coming from (for instance) an AWS data center, it might appear to be coming from a known spam source (since there are some spammers which have used AWS). The instance you’re on might just be using an overzealous spam block IP list.