Oh yeah. Making a subdomain like that also works. And maybe is even easier for existing domains.

I follow a couple of not stations that have a Masto presence, but I get where you are coming from.

Hopefully the tide will shift more this year.

I know that some people are upset about Threads federating, but I feel like some people may never end up on Masto but could have a Threads account. A local weather station, for example. But if you could simply subscribe to them via Masto without ever making a Threads account that’d be great. And the weather station gets to serve more people (the “normies” — for lack of a better word — on Threads and the nerds on Masto).

Just as an example, really.

A lot of Masto servers I’ve seen have use the .social extension. I feel like it does lend itself to letting people know what to expect when seeing a handle that ends with .social. It’s maybe an easy connection to make that that’s some sort of social media entity.

They certainly don’t have to use that type of url, but I think it’d be cool and it makes sense for what it is.

I’ve thought that news stations should do the same, too. Like an @news@cnn.social would be cool and have built in verification simply because they could lock down its users to only approved people so you’d know that @wolf@cnn.social is definitely Wolf Blitzer. No need for checkmarks.

I still can’t believe we haven’t seen a @whitehouse.gov.social or whatever spring up. Why in the world would they not want to control their social media presence in house? Why allow Twitter that luxury?

If they went cold turkey on Twitter and set up @potus@whitehouse.social the posts would still end up on Twitter because people would cross post them (just like we see Twitter posts on Masto or lemmy).

At least some EU governments have started making their own accounts.

Weird how firing the trust and safety team on day one could come back to bite him.

It took me a while to mute all the furries that kept popping up in random feeds.

And that may just be the feeds’s algorithm. But if I’m in the cats feed or nba feed, I don’t need to see furries.

A lot of companies now offer two day shipping for free (if you spend enough of course), and it’s just as good. Hell, I bought some batteries for a UPS that died on Monday from a battery wholesale site, and they arrived today. And that’s with the shipping saying it could be at least a week. The competitive advantage of Amazon doesn’t seem like it’s there any more.

Another thing you realize when you quit Amazon is that you don’t really need to be ordering so much junk. You just don’t. I promise. And when you do need something, I feel like I’m more confident buying the jacket or whatever from the company that makes it instead of sitting through a thousand knock offs and hoping I picked the right one among all the AI written reviews and titles.

He makes all these cuts yet still can’t seem to cut that ugly beard.

All I know is that basically every IPO I’ve seen has eventually made the product worse. I have no data to back this up, just feelings, but still. As soon as a company starts worrying about shareholders, corners start getting cut or prices start going up for no reason.

Maybe one of the features they thought about is how some Android phones install Facebook and other crapware that you may not be able to delete.

Because of basically ALL printer manufacturers. I know people like Brother printers, generally, but why pay something like $60-100 for a printer when you only need to use one a few times a year?

For me the cost savings are pretty huge.

This is why for the one or two times I need to print something a year I just go to the library and pay them $0.10 a page to print something out.

I bought a 2014 Mac Mini for $60 a couple months ago. It still runs just fine, and literally yesterday it got a new security update. That’s ten years of support.

People can make fun of Apple for myriad things, but not supporting their devices is not one of them.

I’m curious about what their definition of “engaged” is. I imagine most people don’t make comments on YouTube videos, but twitter’s main focus has always been posting and commenting on others’ posts.

No, but I bought the pack of four and it’s nice to have one on my bike, in my car, and in my bag where my laptop and iPad live when I’m traveling.

I feel like this is the version they’ll put in the goodie bags for celebs at the Oscars to let them create a bunch of buzz. And then next year there will be a version that only costs $2000 or something - still expensive but less out of reach for mortal humans.

Apple Vision Pro will be available starting at $3,499 (U.S.) with 256GB of storage. Pre-orders for Apple Vision Pro will begin on Friday, January 19, at 5 a.m. PST, with availability beginning Friday, February 2.

So 256GB for all those movies and games you’ll want to play on that long plane ride they keep showing as a way you’ll definitely use these.

I’m in the Apple ecosystem pretty hard, but we’ll really just have to see what rich folks do with this thing.

Muting is at least something you can do from any post now.

We’ve been right on the edge of “Mac Gaming” since 2006 when they switched to Intel. Almost twenty years later and every year it’s brought up as something “right around the corner,” but during the Intel years they always had garbage GPUs.

I guess we’ll see if/when games will be a thing on Arm.

Apple News needs to allow me to share the original link to the article instead of some Apple News link.