https://xkcd.com/1381/

IMHO messages from things you’ve signed up to are unlikely to be “spam”. I’ve always understood that word to mainly mean completely unsolicited messages from people you have no previous relationship with at all; though if it’s clearly unwanted it might include some of the former too.

that may in part be out of consideration to others, most others don’t want to see that… so maybe a bad example…

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How old is “old” for this purpose?

“Mastodon” is probably not doing that, a specific instance might be though?

Thx, fixed

If you click around a bit more in that documentation, you can see that that isn’t an enumeration of genders, it’s an interface for answering the question which gender any given name belongs to. (For example, “Andrea” is understood as exclusively feminine for German speakers, but it’s a common male first name in Italy.)

A long time ago I did some things with https://revealjs.com/ but not sure how viable that is.

I’ve been calling it threadiverse because that is what I saw most other people call it.

Really all it is is “ActivityPub groups” or if that is too technical, “fediverse groups”.

Is this not basically true, that that is how group federation works? Not sure what exactly you are trying to say.

Who is “he”? I think they might mean Donald Trump, who AFAIK is a resident of Florida?

The worst bills in Congress are usually overwhelmingly supported by both parties.

It seems pretty unreasonable to me that laws like that exist in the first place, so my answer to the question how trans people should be counted for such purposes is “neither because such laws shouldn’t exist”.

Federal government in the UK? The UK isn’t a federation, so doesn’t have a federal government.

It’s a possible distinction to make, the main problem is that the article in the OP didn’t make that distinction.

Again, how do you define “social media”?

I grew up on IRC as well as web forums and found those social interactions very fun overall, not dissimilar from IRL social interactions.

OK, what’s the definition of “social media” for that purpose then?

I tend to be unsympathetic in general to ideas that anyone (including young people) needs to be “protected” from their own decisions.

So teens who don’t fit in well in the IRL spaces that are available to them should have 0 ways to have social interactions?

If teen me hadn’t had the internet, I would have 0 joyful memories whatsoever of my teen years. Anyone sympathizing with the ideas in the OP is in my mind purely evil and oppressive, I have no other words to describe this.