In other news, water is wet, as anyone detained at Guantanamo Bay can readily attest

It’s just a reference to some weeb shit from 2002

I have a question:

Well, on Reddit, with subreddits, you can go inside with your shoes on, right? Then, what if you stepped on dog poop out on the street, and you went to a subreddit without realizing it… If the Redditor father and mother and eldest son and eldest daughter all stepped on poop and went to a subreddit without realizing it…

Honestly, I feel like Mastodon is kinda never going to be like Twitter, even if its user count were to grow by two orders of magnitude. There are several reasons why, as the other replies point out, but the most important (IMO) is that Mastodon is just not a profit-driven platform. And if Mastodon is not a profit-driven platform, it is not designed to maximize user engagement. And if it is not designed to maximize user engagement, it is not designed to encourage toxic behavior.

Déjà vu, have I been in this place before?

But Venezuela, you need to understand that there is no good place to put the V in the acronym, wait for some other countries to join first

The absolute absurdity of a news article on nefarious data collection requiring that I enable JS to read it, just so that it can load a ridiculous number of trackers.