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Cake day: December 9th, 2023

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  • I do think the Indian government has a point if you read the lawsuit. This is a ongoing lawsuit and the page taken down had info on it and a discussion page where people were talking about the ongoing lawsuit. The lawsuit says that this “…Complicates and compounds the issue at hand.”

    Hard disagree. Ongoing lawsuits often have complicated issues, but are nonetheless topics of public concern. It’s sometimes inconvenient for governments and large corporations to have the public aware of the lawsuit and the underlying facts and issues, but that’s no reason to impose a gag order.

    Frankly, whenever I hear a court give vague rationales like “complicates the issues,” I assume they judge just doesn’t like the criticism. That’s what it sounds like here.







  • What sort of stuff do you like? Maybe some folks can make some good recommendations to jump-start a more interesting experience.

    Recommendations and boosts from other users are how I’ve discovered interesting people there, and at this point, my feed feels just as full as my old twitter feed.

    If you like news, a lot of breaking news is happening on Mastodon much more accurately and faster than on Twitter. There are a LOT of publications on there now, here are a few off the top of my head:

    • Polygon (@polygon@mastodon.social)
    • The Conversation (@TheConversation@newsie.social)
    • The Intercept (@theintercept@jouna.host)
    • Voice of America (@VOANews@mastodon.social)
    • Ars Technica (@arstechnica@mastodon.social)
    • Semafor (@Semafor@flipboard.com)
    • Kotaku (@Kotaku@flipboard.com)
    • The Christian Science Monitor (@csmonitor@flipboard.com)
    • Fast Company (@FastCompany@flipboard.com)
    • The 19th (@19thnews@flipboard.com)
    • Vox (@Vox@flipboard.com)

    There are a lot more local news sources too, so depending on where you live, you can probably follow news for your specific area. The account @FediFollows@social.growyourown.services regularly bundles up follow suggestions for different regions, interests, and topics. If you go that account and search for a hashtag (i.e., #texas) you’ll get a lot of active and high-quality local accounts to follow.




  • our Search Choices might be of use here

    Thanks, I think that’s a valuable option! It’s probably not what I was looking for. As I understand it, the “bang” use is just a way to use the search on a specific webpage, and is just a nice little hack to speed up searches on commonly used websites (i.e., Wikipedia, YouTube, BBC, etc.) I can probably get used to going straight to those sites, but it was a feature that got me using DDG at first and broke my reliance on Google.