CombatWombat

Sorry to do this to you twice, but you can embed the gif directly in the comments using markdown like this: 

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You’re thinking of libel. Liable means legally responsible. If you win your libel case, the defendant will be liable for the damages.

In meteorology, clouds are also physical objects with a size and a weight and a limited lifespan that are subject to the vagaries of nature and time? It seems like a fine metaphor?

I do. Consolidating my phone and tablet into a single device would be very convenient. Adding support for an external monitor, keyboard and mouse to replace my laptop would be even better. I didn’t buy a Duo not because I don’t want the product, but because I know they won’t work well for another few iterations (at least).

The bad news is: you can already follow accounts bidirectionally between Threads and Mastodon. The good news is: Meta did the bare minimum and seems to have stopped development.

Nope

So Apple quietly fixed a nasty vulnerability reachable over the air in iOS 26.5, yet they made no mention of it in the security bulletin.

It’s definitely the case the fediverse requires a lot of specific, technical knowledge to really grasp, and that the onboarding story for new users is pretty confusing, especially since the most significant decision you make (what instance to host your account on) is the first decision you make, before you even see any content. It’s a problem I’ve been thinking about for many years, and still haven’t found a good solution for. Other some bland reassurances that “you’ll get the hang of it eventually,” all I can say is that every time I talk about instances, it feels like the scene from Mean Girls where Lindsay Lohan’s new friends explain the various high school cliques.

I quite like quokk.au, especially their sports community; I don’t really recall why rimu is beefing with them, though I have a vague recollection that I thought it was somewhat overwrought. I don’t think you’re really missing out being defederated from lemmy.ml though. Most of all, though, I think you should avoid default instances whenever possible.

Some piefed instances turn it off – iirc piefed.blahaj.zone does as well. Piefed the software supports it, but maybe rimu turned it off for the default instance? I still can downvote from my instance.