Not yet, but Conduit is fairly close if I’m not mistaken.

Synapse is a mess, which is why Element is looking to eventually drop it for Dendrite. There’s also Conduit.

Your complaint is really just a symptom of the problems inherent in the centralization of the internet. The terms of service of basically all tech platforms gives them unilateral control of how those terms are enforced. If one doesn’t like the terms of service set on a given platform, one should not use said platform.

I tend not to agree with them, so I don’t use them. Others should probably do the same.

You mean the problems that experts said 10+ years ago would happen are happening?

It was actually a reference to Eminem’s song “Stan” about an insane fan who murders his family or something.

Toot actually isn’t official anymore. They changed it to notes (p sure), but the userbase decided to keep using toots because it’s cuter.

Imagine being so awful that not even the IOC likes you anymore.

Last I heard, which was admittedly a long time ago, Pale Moon was dangerously out of date with respect to security and web standards and not much more than a meme. I feel like I remember a significant change in leadership relatively recently, but has Pale Moon actually become a viable alternative?

Beyond that, WebKit is still a thing. Ladybird is too though it’s still quite a ways from primetime.

Most available “landlines” nowadays are just VoIP anyway tho. It’s why my dad got into ham radio.

Sorry, I forgot that I have the Bypass Paywall extension. I don’t have a subscription either.

He already posted a response to criticism almost a week ago: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/02/06/opinion/thepoint/friedman-blog-post?smid=url-share

EDIT: Adding the text

The Value of Listening

One of my writing techniques has always been to employ metaphors to explain complex issues. In a blog post last week, I explained the behavior of the United States, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Hamas, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others by arguing that the way they operate in certain situations mirrors that of particular species.

Some readers from the region and elsewhere found it illuminating and told me so. Other readers, including respected colleagues, didn’t, and told me that any use of animal or insect species to describe people or discuss the highly charged issue of the Israeli-Hamas war is dehumanizing and unhelpful. They cited instances in which such analogies have been used as racist tropes. My goal is always to provide insight into this area of the world and its peoples, whom I care deeply about. And that means always listening to the criticism, as well as the praise.

One can’t be a columnist — or a reader — calling on combatants to hear the other side if you don’t model it yourself. So, this is not a hard call for me. If invoking a metaphor or image alienates and angers part of my audience, I know I used the wrong metaphor. I don’t mind angering readers some days — that comes with the job — but I would never want to leave anyone feeling insulted, even if I hit the mark with others.

This is a painful conflict that has so many people feeling raw. The most useful lesson I learned as a journalist covering the Middle East on and off for some 45 years is to try to be a good listener. Because two things happen when I listen: One is that I learn when I listen. But much more important is what you say when you listen. That’s because listening is a sign of respect.

I found over the years that it was amazing what people would let me say to them, write about them or ask them about — if they thought that I respected them. And if they thought that I didn’t respect them, I could not tell them the sky was blue. And the way they perceived respect, first and foremost, was if you listened — not just waited for them to stop talking — but deep listening. One can never do that enough as a columnist, reporter or reader — especially today.

This is probably the closest we’ll get to an apology from a Pulitzer winning writer, unfortunately.

Is “forced labor” any different from slavery?

My interests are being gay and TV shows about middle aged women.

I tried it, but it was way too full of cryptobros. I felt like I didn’t fit in.

Not engaging. Right after that first response, I would’ve gotten the hell out of there because there’s no changing the mind of someone like that.

If you’re going to engage, I think you handled it about as well as anyone could have.

Well, she’s the former CTO.

It’s okay, OP, it makes me happy too.

What am I looking at?

It reads to me like they’re saying that they feel like they might be attacked by Meta employees.

That said, it’s uh… quite a choice to have made to say that.

It’s a multilayered visual pun. A visual punion, if you will.