I’m thinking there are going to be very interesting developments in the years to come. So many things that were considered immutable constants about life may change.

How about slapping something gun-related on it, like that Black Rifle company?

All the ones that have stayed have told everyone exactly what their real priorities are.

Typing search terms into Google does not an argument make. Neither does calling people lazy.

“Cancel culture” is not really a thing.

How were they “cancelled”, though? Do awful people have a right to gobs of money and attention and a platform? If I get fired from my job for bad behavior, does that mean it’s not being fired, but “cancelled”?

By the way, nearly all the people that are supposedly “cancelled” still seem to have careers.

“Cancel culture” is just a big myth from the right.

Really? How? Who has been “cancelled”? What happened to them?

use cancel culture against somebody they disagree

LOL. Is “cancel culture” even a thing?

Precisely correct. Not sure Elmo really thought it through.

Xitter.

Well, most Americans are progressive on the issues, including abortion, but due to absurd things like the Electoral College, and the way our power is distributed through states and the way in which rural areas have much more influence than they should, conservatives are given way too much power in relation to their numbers.

This is a parody account, I take it? Poe’s Law strikes again.

What kind of silly notion is that?

Pretty sure Palin admitted to her family hopping the border for cheaper healthcare in Canada.

What about you’ins?

TBH, I thought this was an Onion headline at first.

As @Arcidias@lemmy.world mentioned - cloudhiker.net seems quite nice.

Also - do you have any particular recommendations for sites on Neocities?

Sure thing!

I think one reason the [IM|microblogging|forum|other communication style] is not yet fully decentralized, but email is, is because:

1. Email existed and had wide adoption before Eternal September.
2. It had and has a clear business use, and being interopable with other companies’ choices of email service has clear value.

The lesson from USENET is rather instructive. Like email, it is defederated, had a standard protocol, and long predated Eternal September. Unlike email, there is no clearcut business use-case, and even though both systems suffered massive amounts of problems of spam and porn, there was no clear (financial) incentive to deal with spam on USENET, other than leaving it up to the end user to use kill files and so on.

I think IM could be solved much like email, like you say. There is obviously a good business case for it (companies spend untold amounts on things like Slack). When it comes to things that are social media-ish, I think it’s more complicated, as you point out, and probably why it remains in the state that it is.

Interestingly, the plugin (I used DontBugMe for FF) didn’t seem to load anything, but going to the page does find logins for that domain. shrug