That would be great if anyone was actually attemping to reclaim pepe, but in practice, more often than not, the red flags are right.

Thank you for proving my point

People who use it are either using it as a way of displaying that they’re bigots, or they don’t care about the association with bigots.

There’s not really any positive way to use it, so it’s a giant red flag whenever I see it.

She wears a placid, pretty expression

That is not how I’d describe her expression. To me, that expression looks smug/condescending/knowing

Someone spilt the tea…

I don’t care if I like them. I very much care if I’m making money for people who are actively trying to take away my rights

He left Mozilla (chased out because he’s a homophobe) and went on to found Brave, where he still remains

The fact that the dev behind brave is a homophobe isn’t opt in though…

Who?

That’s really interesting. Australian here, and I’ve remarked several times how the userbase of the fediverse isn’t dominated by American voices like most other social media platforms I’ve used.

HDR in a nutshell. But we have to get through it eventually right?

If this actually stands a chance of taking off, I’ll honestly take what I can get to normalise HDR images

HDR capable PNGs that don’t look shite on SDR displays? Sign me up!

I don’t use bluesky or nostr for the very reasons I outlined in my comment, and I wouldn’t recommend them to anyone. Especially nostr, which is a shit hole.

My point is though, they both do non centralised ID, giving similar benefits to what the OP is suggesting, without the centralisation they’re suggesting

I’m not the OP.

And no, a central account doesn’t require a central service, it just requires amendments to the protocols to allow for a decentralised identity. Nostr, bluesky, etc all work that way. Nostr is full of nazis and bitcoin bros, and bluesky is effectively centralised in other ways, but both of them do have a genuinely decentralised single identity system.

There are a few ways of doing it. A single account on the first platform, and then signing up to remote platforms with that account. A system of trust that allows a user to verify that other remote accounts are genuinely also them. Combine it with platforms that recognise content posted from other accounts/platforms that belong to the same person, and let them edit the “remote” content locally and federate it out again etc.

So you don’t end up with a centralised identity, but rather, the ability to manage your identity from whichever instance you happen to be signed in to as if it were created locally on that instance.

A passport in the way described here doesn’t need to be centralised. Your profile could link to your other profiles through metadata, rather than a centralised system.

The admin team burned out

It just redirects to https://join-lemmy.org/ for me

They not only know, they’re gloating over it and rubbing it in

tfw dystopian science fiction is your favourite genre!