It’s very cis, BTW, for you (ie me) to take one of those “are you transgender” tests and try to game the results so it says that you’re not transgender as ultimate proof that you’re totally cisgender.
For those of you who don’t know: LQF follows you in the hope you follow back. Once you do, they will remove their follow of you. They will repeatedly try to follow you in order to engage with this tactic of theirs. It is a way to artificially boost their follower count
The city council posted a new plan to limited vehicular access in the city centre, including more bike lanes, parkland, and making the integration between New Street, Moor Street, and the Curzon Street HS2 station better.
This is obviously good, but all the comments are full of conspiracy idiots talking about anti-car wokies or complaining that businesses will die because nobody can drive into the city centre.
I think these people forgot that the current situation has only existed for about 15 years, beforehand all the streets in the city centre were for vehicle access. Like, there were flyovers and underpasses and stuff. All this is doing is just finishing the job up.
bluesky and AP serve different audiences and it's time for people to realize this. bluesky has optimized it's protocol for the "global town square" twitter wanted to be, with everyone being able to see everything by everyone else. activitypub is much more peer-to-peer in nature. even if the contemporary topology isn't p2p as you'd think, you can absolutely tell from the design that, that kind of setup is valued by the AP designers and explicitly taken into account on most parts of the spec. that does mean that you won't be able to see things you don't have a direct connection for without some form of external influence (AP relays or whatever) AP makes a lot more sense for smaller, tighter knit communities where everyone's not too far from everyone else "social graph" wise, whereas bluesky make a lot more sense to know the opinion of "the world" (to an approximation) about something. they have different use cases and different audiences, and this identity crisis especially pushed by mastodon that pretends AP is capable of the same "global town square" model is probably one of the internal struggles AP must overcome in order to find it's place also, in this model, AP allows entry to the network for MUCH cheaper than bluesky, as you don't need to keep track of the entire network in order to participate. dot social getting a sudden influx of users won't show up as a dent on my instance's resource usage, whereas the influx from brasil bluesky encountered had MASSIVE impacts all across the community led projects. the AP bridge for example ended up with a 3 day backlog RE: