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"Beyond being enthusiastic about organising, Gen Z is also just plain good at it." (www.bbc.com)

“They grew up being told they were going to be better off than their parents. The fact is, they struggled to find jobs, and the jobs they found were not as good as their parents’. They and the generations that follow them are saddled with college debt. They’re looking at a world where they wonder if they should even have...

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That's because the same issues are affecting both millenials and gen Z. Economic stagnation for young people as well as climate change are multi-generational issues that began before our time.

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Technical explainer:
https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md#how-it-works

It apparently requires some kind of proprietary operating environment to function, thus making it compatible with free (as in freedom) computing. You would need either a proprietary library/OS or an open OS but a proprietary piece of vendor hardware to act as the attester.

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What exactly is the microblog? It seems like it's just one big comments section per magazine?

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@Otome@kbin.social Alright, thanks, I have noticed posts from Mastodon showing up here. What I still don't understand: How do posts from the fediverse get sorted into Magazines on kbin? And what is the difference between articles/threads and microblog posts, in terms of the ActivityPub protocol?

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I've followed my fosstodon account on kbin.social and my kbin.social account on fosstodon and I'm unable to see posts in either direction. It doesn't seem like cross-interaction is working at the moment to me.

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WAIT. I'm actually half wrong. I can see my kbin posts from mastodon! It's just that they're all comments so far, so I have to go under the "Posts & Replies" section to see them. However, I'm still not able to see my mastodon posts from kbin.

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I'm actually half wrong, posted an update.

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In my experience, numerous people who love tackling hard problems for the sake of it go on to work at soulless corps. That's part of their success.

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For the record, I wish more talented people were working on open source and doing volunteer work, I'm just stating the view from the ground here in Silicon Valley.

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I assume Elon fired the compliance and moderation teams whose job was to prevent such a lawsuit from occurring.

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