False. Browsers can announce themselves as desktop or mobile, or even advertise pre-determined fake window and screen sizes for this purpose (in Firefox it’s called “letterboxed” in the hidden settings). There is no need for a server to have any of this information anyway - either the design of the webpage should be responsive by default, or the server can send specifically whichever files for styles the browser specifically asks for, perhaps falling back to a “all.css” or something.

A fair warning when joining Piefed: they incorporate a number of CCP-style “Social Credit” underhanded measures, so any criticism of eg.: “tankies” from that side is if anything at least negligently myopic.

A local community also makes it much easier to check humanity vs botness. Just summon the members to an open meeting at the local cat café and exchange GPG keys or something, like in the good ol’ days.

chances are worse than not that there’s no activity in the community built for that one game.

Bold of you to assume there even is a community instead of just a random mention in !games@insta.nce !

Sure, evil people already don’t respect licenses, but also ATM we don’t even have a legal framework to take the fight to them. With an Ethical Use of Software license, we would (getting us the actual power to use that legal framework is left an exercise to the political reader).

And that’s why such a license would be for. For when we manage to organize and revolt into a better world, that we actually can use the power to pursue infringers. Call it prep work, if you would.

“Hashtags-as-a-service”? I can’t see why we’d need this. Hashtags already exist.

The GPL licenses, as written, forbid developers from forbidding their software to be used for evil.

We need a new model, something like Ethical Software Freedom licenses.

Oh glad to see there’s quite some representation around.

Now, we have to add to it.

(I should really adopt a non-photogenic cat sometime)

Unironically this. We need cute animals. Cats, owls, moths, capibaras, pangolins. If we’re not gonna have one of the two “true movers” of the internet (porn and correcting people who are wrong) we need something good to compensate.

It’s 2026. We’ve more than accepted that the people who simp for capitalism are the problem.

The trick is starting a community, but delegating moderation to someone else. Admin ≠ Mod.

We’ve always been ready. Ready for the drama. 🍿

If you don’t trust it, why use it? It’s still slop in the end, just somewhat less slopified.

Consider: either you are smarter than the tool you use, in which case it doesn’t really offer anything much, or you are dumber than the tool you use, in which case you wouldn’t be qualified to judge its results anyway.

Fortunately, here we are in charge of our blocks (for the most part).

To be fair, when it comes to both physical and digital fascism, every time the slippery slopers have been told they are sloping and exaggerating, they are actually proven right.

Unless you use xdg-desktop-portal, the field that systemd added does absolutely nothing.

Yet. it’s a foot-on-the-door to demand more stuff, and some distros have already shown they are going to merrily open up their arses and ours.

Unsure about the IETF and WHATWG, but if at all, they’ll be better than the W3C. The W3C was, and still is, a group co-opted by GAFAM to essentially make the web as hard as possible to implement so that only big corpo can “do it correctly”, and they brought us wondrful features such as literally DRM in the HTML Standard.

To this day the W3C is one of the big reason the internet doesn’t progress.

This, worded in far more technical terms than I had understood back at the time, is one of the reasons why I’ve always opposed the idea of “merging” communities in the Fediverse. Merging views is fine, but merging the communities themselves and all that this means (focus, themes, memberships, rules, censorships, timezones…) is just Not.

Congrats guys! We did it!

Thanks for joining in!

Seriously, enough was going on with the project that the AI was just the final nail (or the deepest nail) in the coffin. What’s important is that we denounce AI where we see it, as this (and not “usage”) is the only non-violent way we have to try and lead a change in how AI is developed and deployed in the first place. The problem is not simply “someone can use AI in their spare time”, it’s what even has to happen as a prerequisite for that to even be a thing in the first place (code theft, mass license violation, environmental destruction, RAM shortages, erosion of civil and digital rights, exemptions for big corpo, you name it).

We should all feel ashamed that an open source project was shuttered because of how our community acted.

Open Source means the source is open, not that you can do whatever ass-unethical thing you want. That weird impression of the world is something that techbros, cryptobros and liberals are trying to push. Don’t be fooled. We defended ourselves, and we managed a tie.