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HeartyBeast , to Fediverse in How Is Science Twitter's "Mastodon Migration" Panning Out? - Absolutely Maybe
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You’ll find that there are tight-knit specialists communities still using it that have seen virtually no affect from Musk’s idiocy.

HeartyBeast , to Fediverse in How Is Science Twitter's "Mastodon Migration" Panning Out? - Absolutely Maybe
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Because there’s a large, complex set of overlapping communities and no ‘head of scientists’ to say ‘OK everyone, we are moving next Tuesday’. It’s still an effective way to communicate with the people they need to communicate with

HeartyBeast , to Fediverse in Imgur links suck
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Ah, that would explain why I kept getting errors viewing images on Reddit with Safari on Mac (which uses a VPN-like privacy system

HeartyBeast , to Fediverse in Defederation, Threads and You
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I think the most dangerous thing is people believing that their data will be protected if Threads gets defederated.

... or that their personal data is at risk if Threads is federated.

HeartyBeast , to men in No distinction between male and female rape says Northern Ireland judge as woman is jailed for raping a man
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I suspect that might go to appeal because under English law, https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/42/part/1/crossheading/rape rape occurs

A person (A) commits an offence if—

(a)he intentionally penetrates the vagina, anus or mouth of another person (B) with his penis,

(b)B does not consent to the penetration, and

(c)A does not reasonably believe that B consents.

HeartyBeast , to Home Improvement in How can I stop birds from flying into my windows?
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Can you not get blackout stickers with silvered reverse? Solve problem and get more effective heat reduction

HeartyBeast , to aww in Don't feed the Quokka
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Going to Australia in a couple of weeks. Itinery is largely being shaped by my daughters' desire ti see Quokka om Rottnest.

HeartyBeast , to Politics in Why is the Federal Reserver trying to drive down wages?
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That sounds like it would be really difficult to track and implement in practice though. Companies would just bring in very slightly different models with new names, or do a bit of shrinkflation. Tracking like-for-like equivalents would be a nightmare and everything would get tied up in the courts.

HeartyBeast , to Politics in Why are libs endangering women and denying their right to privacy?
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Be my guest.

HeartyBeast , to Fediverse in Can we please remember to talk about things on the fediverse besides the fediverse itself?
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The irony of this post is palpable.

HeartyBeast , to Politics in Why are libs endangering women and denying their right to privacy?
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I was going to say - waving a bit of paper in the air and speaking authoritatively does not make something true.

HeartyBeast , to RedditMigration in I just tried to see how to reference a magazine in Kbin by searching Google.
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Google doesn’t use an API. It just scrapes pages

HeartyBeast , to RedditMigration in 3rd party app for Reddit, Boost, is still functioning well after July 1st
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The only thing I'll be giving Reddit is my traffic,

Just to bear in mimd that traffic is the metric that they use when selling to advertisers. Not criticising you, just pointing it out.

HeartyBeast , to Fediverse in Lemmy.ml is blocking all requests from /kbin Instances
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So block the instances you want to block

HeartyBeast , to Politics in Trump now claims classified documents were ‘planted’ in Mar-a-Lago boxes
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And theres no way to block subreddits here like with the Apollo app

Sure there is. You go to the list of Magazines (not subreddits) and click the block symbol next to the ones you never want to see. You can also set your front page to only display subscribed magazines, if that's your thing. No need to spam

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