Like NNTP?

Those were both responses to TikTok shredding revenues for those services.

It’s a huge reason for the TikTok ban: meta and Google have no real good counter to.it, due to first-man-in factor.

You would think… but those aren’t taught.

I dunno. Thanks to Black creators there, I learned about Tulsa, Rosewood, a lot about America indigenous culture, learned about the cops city protests and actions…

Sounds like TikTok was very good for democracy.

Fuxking a man, you win.

Instead of regurgitating CCP propaganda?

RiseUp.net for both. Disroot.org for email (And other services).

I can speak to go, ruby, and PHP: Their libraries for support is per-spec.

Json is pretty great, and sure, if someone wants to make RSS2, using JSON, that’d be fine. But, RSS came long before JSON was even an idea, and XML was the only way we figured out.

RSS’s format is, in fact, so old, there’s been a huge amount of time refining those language’s libs to support RSS just dandy. You never even need to look at the XML.

There’s very robust libraries for most every language that can parse rss for you easily.

ArsTechnica kinda does this too, but in a nice way. You can pay to subscribe to a better set of curated feeds, as a part of your subscription.

National security threat?

So how come Twitter ain’t shut down then?

People are already moving to rednote.

are you even taking this seriously? did you not even comprehend what I said or are you just blindly responding hoping for a “gotcha”?

That aint a “gotya”, that’s proof it has nothing to do with preventing foreign interests from influencing anything. Because we have a foreign interest influencing it already: Musk.

not obvious, and just because you say it with more conviction doesn’t make it true.

So, we have other large social media networks, that are rife with foreign influence, that already influence the US’s internal politics… But yet, banning tiktok was to prevent it from happening?

Its either true, or its not. And in this case, its not true. The sole reason was to keep China specifically, and it only arose because people in the US were learning about shit that US supports. Which the US doesn’t want.

by that logic, then you’re just as guilty for allowing them to do nothing. so what gives you the right to complaint about it if you haven’t done anything to stop them?

Except, they’re not trying to stop foreign influence. They are trying to stop one country, and they only took notice because of news that is damning to the US.

there are so many reasons why but you’re just too emotional and inexperienced to see them, but I’ll point out a couple just so you can see how absurd you’re being.

And… with all your excuses… How come nothing is being done still? Its not new that Elon is a fascist. And it’s not new that Elon is in bed with several foreign interests that are hostile to the US… In fact, its at least 6 years old news at this point.

But tiktok. home of the Pro-Palestinian content is what is being gone after now. Not the Fascists running Twitter, or Facebook… Wonder why that is? Could it be their political donations?

strawman gonna strawman.

Hardly a strawman! We have a major social media company in the US, that is controlled by a foreigner, for their own, and for foreign interests, and impacting our elections with measureable results.

So, obviously, this move wasn’t done to prevent such a thing from happening, just to prevent certain countries from doing it.

you act like it’s the current administration that let’s Elon do whatever he does, but it’s the incoming administration (Trump) that is allowing that.

Our current admin has done nothing to stop it, and therefore allowing it.

Why are all the US Gov accounts STILL on Twitter?

to protect the people from outside influence and to protect national defense.

Thats just not true, otherwise we wouldn’t be welcoming a South African who illegally immigrated to the US and has some serious international conflicts-of-interests with US interests control a major social media platform.

Exactly. Zucc was always a POS. I mean, FB got its start so he could rate the “hotties” on campus…

Hello friend…

I see you…

Acquiring target…

Good night.

Thats a whole lot of heavy assumptions, doing some really heavy lifting.

Variant is probably a better choice than abnormality, if you’re asking genuinely, that is.

What is “woke” to you? Not using racist slurs?