They make cool stuff, but they are ultimately an advertising company (as in that’s their main source of revenue). So by all means enjoy the cool stuff, just proceed with caution and of course assume nothing is permanent!

I called it last week!

There’s no .uk and there never was!

Maybe that bug report was the motivation for the collaboration! Or maybe the level 1 support aren’t aware of unannounced business decisions.

The point of making of open to everyone was so they’d have other traffic to hide their own secret communications amongst, right?

Some people want to recreate reddit, but if they’re posting good content then I’m not going to worry about a silly name

Probably worth putting this in the post description so we don’t all need to ask “what’s that?”

Fedify is a TypeScript library that makes it easy to create federated server applications based on the ActivityPub protocol.

That read like a TFTS story with no punch line

Glad to see that Bum Farto is back after all these years

Yeah that raised an eyebrow. For anyone whose eyebrows remained unraised, fluorescence is glowing under UV.

Thanks for a surprisingly in-depth answer! I very rarely wear proper shirts, which I think explains my assumptions.

Aren’t all parts of a shirt suitable as a cleaning cloth?

I assume that’s him chilling in the middle, looks to have had a shave though

The name Deseret derives from the word for “honeybee” in the Book of Mormon.

A remarkable coincidence that it’s also in the middle of the desert

It has been suggested the name “Stan” is a portmanteau of the words “stalker” and “fan”, though it is unknown if the name was chosen with that intention. The term “stan” has since become an internet slang term for an extremely obsessed fan of something or someone and is derived from the song’s title.

Might be both!

I think I learned about nonce words on Brass Eye

Ah, I see you’re that kind of map enthusiast, eh?

Edit: I see you’ve already posted it yourself. Not an original bone in my body.

I think the problem is that people use “algorithm” to mean “curated social media feed”, whereas it actually refers to a kick-ass prog-metal band

I think the hard part would be keeping it up to date as instances change

Bah, you call that weird? In the UK we’re a country that contains four smaller countries!