The most likely story I have heard is that these automated kiosks at McDonalds have built in face-recognition, but there is no officially legal agreement between law-enforcement and McDonalds to share this data, so they hushed it up with the unlikely story that an employee recognized Luigi.

https://gush.social/

But it's early days. And of course Bookwyrm.

Selektives Gedächnis ist auch toll: (ungeimpfte) Mutter bekommt Covid, ist mindestens ne Woche schwerkrank und auf Hilfe angewiesen, aber übersteht es zum Glück ganz gut. Aber drei Monate später erzählt sie ernsthaft das Covid ja nur ne milde Grippe ist... 🤬

Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou is maybe not your typical recommendation, but very laid back.

Comparing centrists with Birkenau will bounce right off them as they will (somewhat reasonably) argue that Birkenau represents extremism in the other direction.

In general I think "centrists" or "moderates" is a bit of a disnouner. They are indeed mostly just status quo supporters not willing to rock the boat too hard.

Misskey and Mastodon are two different types of open-source software for running a social media microblogging website that can interact with each other through the ActivityPub standard.

Bluesky is a similar but incompatible software run by a single company that was founded by ex-Twitter employees and is funded by billionaires and cryptocurrency scammers.

Given how crufty Wordpress is, I don't even dare to imagine how bad the Tumblr backend must be that this is seen as an improvement by the developers.

Behold:

A common thing in continental Europe too. NOYB and some EU lawmakers are trying to make these pay-or-ok schemes illegal, but I guess in the UK you will be out of luck regarding that.

SimpleX Chat Ltd is a seed stage startup with a lot of user growth in 2022-2023, and a lot of exciting technical and product problems to solve to grow faster.

Run by a VC funded for-profit company. That really should tell you all you need to know. Sorry, but no thanks.

While I appreciate the efforts Valve puts into improving WINE/Proton, lets not forget that they are standing on the shoulders of giants and gaming with WINE was not that bad before the integration in Steam either.