Mastodon does add all to a reply, but it is easy to remove people from the text. Leaving someone in after they have requested removal is an asshole move that Masto's prevailing culture would agree is harassment.
@gnu2 @fu Well, all large organizations are, but government IT is particularly vulnerable to pressure from #pollies ... company A gets paid to maintain its legacy software that $AGENCY has used for 30 years; company B comes out with a modern replacement that eliminates the need to pay company A; company A's lobbyists tell the congressionals for that area that jobs will be lost. Now those congresscritters go into attack mode.
@fu That would require a unified, government-wide initiative that replaces everything that each individual agency has done since the 1980s or earlier. No one wants to fight the mother of all turf wars while begging Congress to fully fund the project.
I don't know who Candace Owens is, but I feel sorry for her. She apparently has to clown and dance for her White audience, so she shuffles her feet and makes comments that celebrate ignorance. Juneteenth is as made up as Independence Day (July 4) itself.
I know plenty of people did not know about #Juneteenth until it was finally (after more than 100 years!) became a national holiday, but if you were Black in certain locations, it is one of the longest standing celebrations.
So Ms. Owens, if you do not want to celebrate, don't celebrate. But don't let yourself be the useful clown to those who like you only because you parrot their own racial insecurities back to them. They will eventually discard you, the same way they discard every Darkie. Because in the final analysis, you're not their kind of people.
When 2nd son #sonTwo was in college, one of his roommates had a family that his family "inherited" as servants for more than a century. So it appears that some enslaved people still remain.
@simsa04 I do not know of any such service for #GNUsocial. There are a few very old web-based quick installers from the #StatusNet days, but even then they weren't much better than getting a VPS and installing by hand, because as soon as you wanted to change something, you needed to use ssh, the command line, and edit config files.
If you still have contact with Lohan G, the artist from Sri Lanka, he hosted an instance somewhere, maybe he has ideas and warnings that would help. Last I knew, @lohang .
#Meta / #Facebook is building a #Twitter clone under their #Instagram brand. Apparently, there's discussion of various #ActivityPub #Fediverse projects' lead developers signing an NDA and having discussions with them.
The participants appear to be deleting evidence.
I'm not spinning a conspiracy theory. I just don't think Gargron or Dansup have any idea what kinds of restrictions an NDA can contain. They risk long-term damage to their projects and some impact on their careers.
@simsa04 The weird thing about that art class thing is that every conservative I know of claims to like Michaelangelo's works. I don't know if evangelical protestants do, but conservatives say they like them.
@fu I don't like Discord, but there's probably some sort of hooks into streaming software or streaming sites. I have noticed that almost every game streamer seems to use Discord.