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Some Mastodon apps are build different than others - seeing everything in the fediverse

So I know that there are some limitations for federation, especially if you are on a smaller instance. On Mastodon I stumble upon this problem on a daily basis. Here is an example. My account is on a smaller local instance (social.cologne) and in the following picture is a post of Eugen Rochko (which I follow):...

It Called Itself a Yoga School. Prosecutors Say It Was a Sex Cult. (www.nytimes.com)

Prosecutors say the organization exploited and drugged some of its female members, forcing them to sell their bodies and generating hundreds of thousands of dollars monthly from clients in Argentina and the United States. BAYS also ran an illicit clinic where some members were administered drugs to induce prolonged sleep,...

Top EU Court Says There’s No Right To Online Anonymity, Because Copyright Is More Important (www.techdirt.com)

This is a good example of how copyright’s continuing obsession with ownership and control of digital material is warping the entire legal system in the EU. What was supposed to be simply a fair way of rewarding creators has resulted in a monstrous system of routine government surveillance carried out on hundreds of millions of...

Judge flags Facebook post claiming inside access to Trump verdict (www.bbc.com)

The US judge overseeing Donald Trump’s hush-money case in New York City has written a letter to prosecutors and the former president’s defence team about a Facebook post in which a person claims to have known the jury’s decision before it became public....

[Solved] Swaync volume slider not showing when using all:unset

I always use all:unset in my css files and I did the same when configuring the swaync notification but somehow when using it inside global selector *{} it doesn’t show the volumeslider which is shows in a notification, related pictures will be attached. I wanna use all:unset and so I want to know how to re-enable volumeslider...

Japanese hospitality wears thin as overtourism takes toll (www.thetimes.com)

From one point of view, it is a remarkable success story. In 2000 Japan had 4.7 million foreign tourists a year. The government of the former prime minister Shinzo Abe set an ambitious goal of 20 million foreign visitors a year by 2020, and achieved it five years ahead of schedule....

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