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Obviously one for those with an interest in plants and flowers but RHS Wisley is vast and breathtaking. In my view the best garden in the country, the variety and quality is seriously impressive - and there's regularly new displays, loads of educational info, and great food options

Agreed, but your emails actually reaching people wasn't in the initial requirements presented 😉

You are. It's just as easy now to host your own mail server as it was thirty years ago

ActivityPub is no more radical than NNTP. Lemmy is almost an exact reimplementation of newsgroups

My reading of that isn't that Google killed XMPP, it's that they thought XMPP would be useful for the userbase they brought in, they realised it wasn't, and they ditched it. There's no indication that XMPP had the userbase and lost it to Google, or even that XMPP had features that were stolen by Google

Yes exactly

Unpopular opinion but defederating Meta is a terrible idea. What are people thinking will happen? Allow them to federate and you'll have mastodon users able to view and interact with posts from Threads without needing to be concerned about ads or tracking, without giving over any more control of privacy than they would to any other fediverse instance, and without needing to possess accounts homed within the Meta infrastructure.

Defederate them, and anyone who wants to interact with anyone on threads will most likely need to maintain a presence on both and handover more personal data to Meta than they otherwise would.

Defederating is actively hostile to fediverse users.

I have a chrome plugin to strip any Pinterest results from searches, it's the absolute worst

Changing your DNS doesn't stop your ISP seeing what sites you visit unless you use a VPN. DNS just resolves an address to an IP. Your requests (with destination IP attached) will still pass through their network gear and be able to be logged should they wish to.

They're all posted by a single bot account. Block the bot and you see none of the posts