their algorithm is garbage

Can confirm. It’s engagement bait at its worst

ActivityPub is a W3C standard, though.

Also in Italy, I believe

Eugene of Mastodon has signed an NDA with Facebook.

Is this true? Where can I read more about it?

I generally like the spirit of the DMA and the DSA, but the age verification policy is utterly garbage. Privacy and age verification are mutually exclusive

Because the pope is old and frail and every illness might kill him

You have to thank the Mashall Plan for that

Axios is very good. Very dry journalism - almost crossing into news agency territory -, very fact-based, always mentioning the different positions on the matter at hand. They do talk about politics but you can just visit the other sections. They are especially big on tech stuff

EDIT: For how to get news, I use RSS. Inoreader in particular lets you subscribe to entire sites or just specific pages. It’s possibly the best piece of software I’ve ever tried

The situation here in Switzerland is similar. Every time I go to the grocery store, it’s full of people (especially kids) that cough on everything and everyone. A couple of my colleages at work came in sick from what turned out to be covid. I somehow managed to avoid getting infected.

Last week a person in a supermarket basically coughed on me while passing by, and now I have a cold. According to the rapid tests (which are still available here, fortunately) it’s not covid, but still. The pandemic has not taught us anything.

Dayum, that’s crisp

It’s not made by google

Since banking secrecy has been abolished, so basically 2009

ToSDR has this report about Feedly.

Inoreader scores slightly better but the android app has 2 trackers (Google Crashlytics and Google Firebase Analytics)

AP and Reuters are unbiased, but that’s because they are news agencies. They are not journalistic media, which means they often don’t provide context to what they talk about (which is only fine if you already know the topic) and you won’t find any in-depth stories, investigative journalism, explainers, etc

The Exodus Privacy analysis shows that the android app has no trackers, which is pretty amazing

RSS readers are the best. You can install any “dumb” RSS reader or use one that also suggests sources by topic, such as Inoreader (my personal choice) or Feedly

EDIT for clarity: Feedly and Inoreader are cloud-based, meaning that everything is synced between devices. Inoreader is based in Europe, Feedly in the US.

Looking at other articles, it looks like abusing the ellipses is something they do frequently

Now that I think about it, it’s actually my first time reading a TMZ piece. Looking at other articles, it does seem to be a thing they do pretty frequently. Weird!

I have a question for native english speakers. I’ve read the TMZ article and they keep using the ellipses aka the “dot dot dot” (…). Why is that? It’s usually used when skipping words inside quotations, but it does not seem to be the case here. They seem to be used instead of commas. Anyone can explain why?

Love the idea, but you should really ask someone who actually speaks english to check the whole questionnaire. It’s filled with spelling and grammatical errors.