In the last few days we’ve had an outburst of painful, intelligent, useful conversation about racism and abuse in the world| ongoing by Tim Bray
Maritime Birds and Bees · Nova Scotia and New Brunswick each have plenty of wilderness; PEI not so much. So pictures of bears and cougars and so on would be plausible, as would marine mammals. But no. Herewith, from our recent vacation, birds and bees, with a little lens-geek side trip ...| ongoing by Tim Bray
The UK Supreme Court has ruled that the legal definition of a woman should be based on biological sex.| www.bbc.com
Government censorship has found its way to Bluesky, but there's currently a loophole thanks to how the social network is structured.Earlier this| TechCrunch
Some good news about #Mastodon, there has been a very significant bit of code added which will automatically fetch all the replies in a thread. This means everyone will be able to see a thread's whole conversation no matter which server they are on! 🥳 The code has just been "merged" which means it should become available in the next update to Mastodon, hopefully within the next few months. (Those who want the technical details can see the Pull Request at https://github.com/mastodon/mastodo...| social.growyourown.services
This week, Bluesky hid accounts in for users in Turkey after a government order. I take a closer look at government censorship and ATProto, how geographic moderation labelers work, and the impact on the future of decentralised social networks.| fediversereport.com