Now they’re promising to only be pretty racist.

Can you force the browser to send a cookie header to the DuckDuckGo website? I think there are plugins that add headers to specific websites.

That’s the way I read it as well.

He’s a c-list celebrity and genre author. I generally agree with what he says and enjoy his writing, but I’d be surprised if any of his usual audience joined a platform specifically because of him.

Edit: I am surprised that some of his usual audience joined a platform specifically because of him.

it’s on us the fediverse for really failing to communicate the value of instances as well as making them easy

A bunch of people came over to Mastodon when Elon bought Twitter, but they left because it was missing features. The big ones I saw were

1. a lack of “trending” list - that means journalists and other people who want to know what’s happening right now didn’t have a way to find events
2. no suggestions for follows. As a new user, how do people know what to follow?
3. no suggested posts. Once I scroll through all the posts from the people I follow, the system doesn’t provide me with new posts.