Ads and scammers are going to be where people are, so any sufficiently big competitor will get them too.

I need to meet those people.

Well, like in any population, there are musk supporters in any cross section. (my local group has way too many for my liking). I also don’t know how bad it is in other parts of the world, I think the artist is Russian, but I’m not certain about that. There are also people that stick around because of network effects. I’ve gone from sometimes using the few nitter istances that still work, to trying to never go there. If its only on twitter, it doesn’t exist.

You forgot the important second bit, it has to annoy someone else enough that they tie you up and forcefully remove the shoes.

two things, 1) I wish that artist still posted outside of twitter. 2) me next please.

I’ll have to give it a shot to give a second opinion, I don’t know if a tail can be trusted.

Working for me again too. It seemed to always work for a few people, but the DNS for me was a parking page, so I assume they had a short lapse on their registration. (Whois has the last action date as today)

I don’t know when you tried, but for a little it was definitely not working. Someone else also had mixed results, I wonder if there was a cached DNS record somewhere. Those kind of domains are usually for parking pages for unused domains, as the last action date on the whois is today, I think they had a short lapse. Its working for me again. Looks like it was probably down for just a few hours.

google, cloudflare, a cdn somewhere. could be cached dns too and it really is working in that browser. Its a recent enough change and lots of things need to update.

This is the entire page, plus nothing on pawb from blahaj users is loading. You might be pulling from a cache.

Disclaimer, I don’t like what is being done, I think its wrong, damaging, and questionably legal, at least the process that is currently in progress.

To add more nuance and explanation, There are only 3 branches of government, and when congress says we want a thing done, the executive is the one to execute, because where else could you even put it? For truly independent agencies, I think you need to amend the constitution for that. The current administration is taking that to heart and taking more of an active role, often beyond bounds set, in what is still lower level of the executive. If you were to go to an org chart of the people being fired, and departments being closed, if you went up a few levels you would get to the president. As much as NIH, or CDC, or USAID, or any others are independent, at the end of the day, they are part of the executive.

Most of what is being done has been done or tried to be done before, not necessarily at the same time.

As for your list, I’d be careful about throwing the baby out with the bath water, the NSA is involved with evaluating encryption, although there is some checkered history (DES) in this role.

The FBI helps coordinate multi state investigations

Intelligence from the CIA would be useful, but their history of foreign meddling that has come back to bite is a bit hard to overlook.

At the time, while vernacular correct, technically not true. The server was responding by actively refusing the request. It was “down” in the sense that you could not access it. It was up in the sense that something was running there.

with lemmy.sdf.org, something is wrong with the instance, I get connection refused on the instance itself. Your other example works fine for me, can you access the image directly? https://files.catbox.moe/fpvt6y.jpg

edit: sdf is working fine for me now.

I DON’T AGREE WITH MOST OF THE FOLLOWING. what follows is simply my best guess.

Different people are going to have different reasons, the first two are the majority of the voters the rest are for the owner class.

1. Take the following statements to be true: Taxation is theft, government action is evil. If you apply no other logic, many of the actions make sense. The CFPB is government action, therefore evil and should be removed.
2. ANY regulation impedes the free market. CFPB is a regulation it impedes the free market
3. It helps the selfish people doing it. They will be able to take more risky positions at the expense of the public and make money.

I’ve never really been one for digital hugs, but it is appreciated.

It was the perfect place for me. If it was only pawb here, I don’t know if I would have made some of what I feel are some positive personal decisions. I know there are sayings about good things being fleeting, but it doesn’t make me less sad.

Its really sad to see it go. I wasn’t lying when I said I shed a tear, at the announcement it was coming, when it was a week away, and a little misty eyed again. I’ll also let you know, I don’t think most of your comments form today federated outside yiffit. (the edit that said federation was off was about 7 hours ago. )

uh oh, you are treading on dangerous territory trying to introduce logic to furry porn. It never ends well.

Once every few months I try to clear out a bunch. The last time was probably close to 150. Some are reminders, I really should do it a better way, but its really easy to forget about something in a bookmark and sometimes I just want to remember to come back to some silly comic and having it sometimes in view is enough. Honestly yea there is a chance loosing the tabs would cause me to tap out. For unloaded tabs they aren’t in history and some of them have been there for… years. It would really bother me to not know what was lost.

(~600 tabs) I don’t turn it off, but I do put it to sleep. The growth is usually looking into something, or finding something interesting I want to come back to. Each time that happens it probably adds ~20 tabs. I’m almost always on my computer, or a computer sitting just next to it.

Just in case this link breaks when federation is turned off, https://yiffit.net/comment/11065451

I saw the first, happy commenting.