Obviously the way the previous commenter worded it would infringe on the platforms’ free speech, it’s only workable if we replace “harmful” with “illegal” (e.g. libelous).

obviously it’s a remote service, so you don’t directly control it unless you run it yourself, but the website links to this repo https://github.com/gugray/rss-parrot so the code does seem to be available under a free license (I have not tried to run it myself)

https://rss-parrot.net/

This puts any RSS feed into your Mastodon feed.

I post a lot and don’t usually get hateful insults, in fact most of what I post gets no comments at all.

The way I find most things I post is literally just that I repost them from my Mastodon feed.

This is a complex issue and both of the comments above are way oversimplifying it…

Lots of governments around the world are nowadays claiming that their laws apply to all or many websites that can be accessed in their borders. Whether they can enforce this if the website has no physical assets in the country is a very different question. They could arrest their operators when they enter their countries (as happened to Pavel Durov), or they could geoblock websites, or… here are some starting points for further research:

• https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/88635/can-the-uk-government-do-anything-about-a-foreign-media-platform-rooting-for-civ
• https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/20490/what-politically-can-be-done-to-compel-global-compliance-by-google
• https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/05/when-trolls-take-on-tyrants-4chan-and-kiwi-farms-sue-the-uk-over-extraterritorial-censorship/

Assuming “EU” means “European Union” (the acronym can stand for other things too): if you don’t put “Europe” or “European Union” in the title or sidebar, no one who searches for these things is ever going to find this community.

also there is already !EuropeanUnion@europe.pub

IRC still exists, the closest FOSS IRC client to mIRC is KVIrc.

The closest thing to a modernized IRC is Matrix.

I remember reading that Loops (? - may be wrong about which one) does the same thing, only displaying statuses with videos in them. I have not, so far, seen anyone claim that that is a bad thing, and frankly don’t agree that it is. If we can’t do that, then we can never have specialized platforms built on ActivityPub, e.g. platforms only for videos or for photos, etc., and that would severely limit what we can do with it.

In GTA 5, get on a train, get a wanted level, try to keep the wanted level for an entire round-trip around the map, then try to escape the wanted level, all while staying on the train and surviving.

(it’s been a few years since I tried this and don’t remember if those were the exact rules, but they were something like this)

The law will be the same in all EU countries, including whichever parts you think will be “not mandatory” (I did read those news articles and am fully aware that mandatory scanning is no longer on the table).

misleading headline, this isn’t a list of countries in which the law will (if it passes) be different (it won’t be, it’s an EU law, so will be the same in all EU countries), it’s a list of countries that currently support/oppose the law

a desktop version of a web version of a desktop app? talk about going full circle :D

somewhat oddly, in the real world, a clause like this would make the program no longer free and open source software

It’s an expansion to say that LLM training constitutes a derivative work. You are of course entitled to your opinion that it should be the case; all I can say to that is that in the 2000s and 2010s nearly everyone on the Internet tended to argue for more limitations, not further expansions, of copyright law, and I wonder what happened to that attitude.

and yet it is still a legally unsettled question whether LLM training requires a copyright license at all; and it is my opinion that no one should want that to be the case, why would people on the Internet want to argue for an expansion of copyright law?

I don’t see where I said anything that contradicts anything in your comment.

If Google is their default search engine, they must at least be tech-savvy enough to have changed the search engine in Edge, or installed another browser (probably Chrome).

Which “non-techy people” are we talking about here?

Nowadays some people only use smartphones or maybe tablets, and they might not know that. But most non-techy desktop users still use Windows and they certainly ought to know the default browser (and its search engine) on their OS, I would think.

What does that even mean…? If you know of something specific that is superior about analog compared to digital clocks, I’d like to hear it.

That’s what https://lemmit.online/ is for reddit to Lemmy, https://sr.ht/~cloutier/bird.makeup/ for Twitter and apparently also Instagram.

One problem with this is copyright; if it’s OC images or text posts, it could infringe on the original poster’s copyright. Not a problem if it’s merely sharing links.