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Cake day: October 16th, 2019

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  • Yes, it’s typical of these people to believe/say that in society ideas are exchanged on a fair playground, while in reality the discussion is gamed in favor of the power that be from the start. Durov like many other knows this damn well but “free speech” is a selling point for Telegram and Durov is a propagandist as much as Kirk, that also believes in competition as the driving force of any kind of progress, so it’s not really surprising to hear these words spent in favor of a “debater” like Kirk. He could have just shut the fuck up though, like he does with all the other political activists murdered by their own governments and not by the hatred they caused














  • Follow up on the 🇷🇴 elections topic. Tweet from George Simion:

    🇷🇴 I officially ask Constitutional Court TO ANNUL Romanian presidential elections (May 2025). For the very reasons December elections were annulled: EXTERNAL INTERFERENCES by state and non-state actors. This time proven with evidence! Neither 🇫🇷, nor 🇲🇩, nor anyone else has the right to interfere in the elections of another state.

    To all Romanians: ask urgently the Constitutional Court to annul this farce. We will not give up and we will not betray! This is only the beginning of a great victory!

    Durov’s reply:

    I’m ready to come and testify if it helps Romanian democracy.











  • yesy yes thanks mozzilla i love logging in to work on monday morning to find a new homepage with “thought provoking stories” about:

    • jannik sinner being op
    • who is still using floppy disks, by geopop.it
    • best pictures about the chinese new year celebrations in italy, from viaggi.corriere.it
    • how the new trash tax works, by today.it
    • NBA players that are also rappers (😱😱😱 thanks mozzilla I almost missed this one!)
    • 5 types of incense to remove negative energies from your home

    …and a whole number of other useless slop I will never open and I will never care about. I hate enshittification so fucking much



  • I am in a similar position, yes. I’ve resisted for so many years, but Instagram right now is the only place where some of the local organizations I’m interested in post. Clubs, town events, even leftist social centers who are usually sensible to online privacy and megacorp dependence sometimes only have an instagram or facebook page.

    Right now I have a text note with the urls to the websites of the instagram pages that don’t have a newsletter/RSS feed. And another note with the link to their instagram pages, that I sometimes check out. Luckily you still don’t necessarily need to login to access an account’s recent posts from the browser, so as long as you periodically clear your cookies, a browser will do.

    I also have been trying to convince some of these pages to create an account on Mastodon or use Gancio, if available. Even a Telegram channel would suffice. Some of them (two) did, but stopped to update it after a few months because most reach comes from facebook/instagram and they won’t bother to post stuff on another platform