Seen in a message-board comment:

“Vote for Hillary. We know she won’t blow it. Just ask Monica.”

No way I’d vote for that felon in a million years…but that’s funny right there.

(Crossposted from Diaspora, the decentralized, federated social network.)

https://diaspora.alfter.us/posts/96

I’m still fairly new here, but would like to see things take off. The Internet has been all about decentralization almost from the beginning: anybody could set up a mail server, NNTP server, or whatever and communicate with anybody else. You can still do that (and I’ve run my own mail server for about 16 years now), but Johnny-come-latelies such as Facebook and Twitter have sucked up most of the oxygen–and users. If they could be trusted to do the right thing and offer a neutral forum for all views, maybe this wouldn’t be such a bad thing. Unfortunately, this is turning out to not be the case:

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/01/09/twitter-declares-war-on-conservative-media-unverifies-breitbart-tech-editor/

The #FreeStacy Story: Why Was My @rsmccain Account Suspended?

http://www.wnd.com/2016/01/facebook-bows-to-obama-banning-private-gun-sales/

This is a potentially huge opportunity for decentralized/federated networks to rise to the occasion and bring on the end of centralized “social media.” SJWs, repressive governments, and other bad actors can’t shut down decentralized networks.

I'm still fairly new here, but would like to see things take off. The Internet has been all…

I'm still fairly new here, but would like to see things take off. The Internet has been all about decentralization almost from the beginning: anybody could set up a mail server, NNTP server, or whatever and communicate with anybody else. You can still do that (and I've run my own mail server for abo…