None of these points make any sense to me when I think about the pre-reddit internet. There were all kinds of communities everywhere on various forums across the internet. Some forums discussed specific topics, some very niche, other forums were for more general discussions. But hosting and setting up a forum was not always the easiest thing. So when reddit came, subreddits eventually replaced forums. Easy to set up, easy to discover, everything in one place.

Now the fediverse is to me pretty much like going back to the old forums, but a bit more organized. And all of the points in this article could have been made about forums if you decided to analyze forums as one big thing. But in the end, none of it has been a problem (and there are still some forums around today).

Can Zoom handle 50,000 participants?

I don’t even understand how a boycott would be illegal. It’s illegal to not buy products from a certain company? How can you tell if a person is not buying because they’re boycotting or because they never had the intention of buying in the first place?

https://loops.video/v/70kc87BUqc

conflates sex and gender

I read the order. It explicitly avoids defining gender and says that only sex should be used everywhere (which it does define, but incorrectly).

It basically says that the government doesn’t care about your gender, they just want to know what’s in your pants (or used to be).