I don't understand what part of their statement you read as pro-LLM

I think I would have liked it better if they had cut another 60-80 minutes from it.

I think your point about moderation tooling is worth a bullet point on its own. I think more tools for users to stay safe and for moderators to keep their instance safe would go a long way, and that there are people who would be willing and able to donate their time implementing them.

Also, the current draft is still pretty focused on Mastodon. I think it's worth talking more about how the problems (and solutions) are different on different platforms, or if not then talk about working on the problem for Mastodon/microblogging as opposed to "the fediverse."

For many, Threads understandably felt like a breath of fresh air following the chaos that engulfed Twitter. Unlike the latter, Threads is not run by someone that I and many others find to be an exceptionally despicable human.

This is... telling.

Idk if downvotes don't federate at all or if it's homegrown jank, but I've never seen a downvote on another instance's post.

They said the same thing about stuffed crust pizza, and look where we are now.

Flexo, shoot Flexo!

I've been wondering whether "a functional web search" is something that will increasingly become impossible as the death of the web progresses.

Feels like I'm wearing nothing at all!

Reminds me of the plastic placemats I ate off of as a toddler.

Has anyone else told you that the nested parentheses make your writing hard to read? Not a sarcastic or rhetorical question, I genuinely don't know if I'm the only one who has a hard time with them, especially when you don't close them lol

If you're into blockchain, AI is somewhere where blockchain would obviously be a huge boon. It's only in the real world where it's a laughable combination.