We used to rent movies every weekend when I was a kid, and we supported our local video rental store instead of Blockbuster. It was so much fun to decide what to rent! The staff there always knew so much about movies too, and we'd follow their recs often. We watched a bunch of classics and silent films that there's no way would get visibility on streaming libraries today. I wish I'd kept a journal of all the movies we watched, I remember almost no titles now.

ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the surface of the Moon

lol

It was a way to view multiple lists at once, your home feed, various accounts, hashtags, your mentions, notifications, DMs, etc. Super useful. I stopped using Twitter altogether when they updated it earlier this year and made it significantly clunkier UX + promised to make it paid.

sorry, I X'd out of twitter before X X'd twitter, so I can't actually X about Twitter or X on X,

TL;DW:

• Why is the EPA of all government orgs involved in this? A: Because the claim by John Deere was that you can't repair your own shit due to "emissions concerns."
• Okay so what did the EPA do? A: Read this article which is what he reads out loud in the video
• Will this actually do anything? A: Shrug emoji

isn't it pretty hard to determine if it's worthwhile if they aren't going all-in on making it an interesting place with breaking news & accounts for certain types of news etc?

A little harsh on /kbin given that it's been released for less than two months and the author doesn't even mention this. Otherwise seems reasonable.

Keep in mind that it's in a particular context. It seems a bit ridiculous as a headline, but if they were actively using the branding, it might not seem so ridiculous: imagine Facebook (I will not call them Meta) is already operating a social media site for posting short thoughts called X with the TLD social (hypothetically). And they've been operating it as X for 10 years. Then Elon does this. Clearly Facebook has a suit because that's straight-up infringement.

This is a little more hazy because Facebook isn't actively using their X trademark, and it's not exactly the same as Twitter. But they do hold the rights to it (as far as I can tell from the one tweet (xeet?) about it). And it's not (quite) as ridiculous as it sounds.

Also,

Twitter auto-replied to Insider's request for comment with a message saying that the communications department would get back to us soon.

Is this a euphemism for the poop emoji??

Sorry, why would you not see what your competitors' products look like? Why is this a headline???

I don't have a high opinion of this.

What has Jimmy Wales been doing recently?

1. Losing a bunch of money creating WikiTribune
2. Pivoting that failed venture to WT Social. Quote, "However, as of November 7, 2019, Wales stated that he had just learnt about ActivityPub and was looking into it." It took him four years to get around to it?
3. Just now taking advantage of us to start yet another social media network. And what does he do first thing? Ask for donations.

Yeah I'm not going anywhere near there.

Not only this, but most people here creating magazines (including myself) probably have no desire to mod some of the communities they've created. I know I don't. If the reddit mods want to take it over I'm gonna sigh a huge sigh of relief and give it to them without a second thought. (except for the single one where I actually was the mod, lol)