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Meta are also starting their own ActivityPub platform, Threads.

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Google could have also made a competent messaging service to compete with iMessage but just… Didn’t until like 2019

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Is frustrating on a new instance though when you have to wait for the content to appear though, lol

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That means you can interact with your friends on threads without using their app and seeing their ads. It’s a big win.

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Then we’re back to ActivityPub as it is now. I hardly see Mastodon people jumping to threads. And governments might prefer having their own instance.

I’m sure the vast majority of people on Mastodon hate Meta enough to not jump ship. Why would you move from Mastodon to threads anyway? Instagram integration?

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I agree. The best thing we can do is take advantage of their federation by making a significant enough portion of their userbase on the fediverse, to the point that it relies on them. Many currently on the likes of Mastodon would probably rather die than use Threads.

The only real benefit I can see threads having over the rest of the fediverse is Instagram integration, which the convenience of that might be enough to have people prefer it enough to give them a market

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Isn’t that what Chromebooks are for?

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Chromebooks were genius

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Isn’t Android Linux?

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A neighbour’s cat tries to do that by staying with us. Little does he know that we just text the neighbour to let her know that her cat is happy and safe.

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Don’t listen to them OP. Share your cat with your neighbours.

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Would it be bad to say that this would be a good use for NFT’s?

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I think the cringe part about them was them being sold. But the technology is actually quite decent, a way of storing data/ownership on a decentralised network

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Same with car accidents. More likely to die in one on the way to the airport, but plane crashes are more terrifying

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Wasn’t that Near? I felt completely sick with that situation. Glad someone in Belfast destroyed kiwifarms.

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Oh :(

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Based. Evil website which encourages child trafficking and the destruction of men.

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No. Just like how a baker isn’t made a cake, a creator isn’t made of creation and is uncreated.

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The Christian God follows this quite well, especially with the concept of the Trinity.

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Yeah because we cannot comprehend a creator who isn’t, just like how a person isn’t made of cake.

What can we do when something is too vast to provide representative examples for?

I feel like often people ask me “Oh yea? Name some examples.” and the burden is on me to prove something by providing representative examples. But often it’s so overwhelming how many examples there are for something that I feel obligated then to either list everything, or try extra hard to find good examples, and even then...

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That’s what debating atheists is like in a nutshell

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Because I care about you. I care about your souls.

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What sort of evidence would convince you?

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Your choice!

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But that’s a created thing, not a higher being.

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These are documented in the New Testament.

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Can you show me proof that St Patrick existed?

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There isn’t any proof for St Patrick?

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I did. If you discount the New Testament as a “magical book” then you literally have to throw away several other historical figures who we have no evidence of other than in writing

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Which book says I need to go on a pilgrimage to Mecca?

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I was making sure so we’re on the same page. Let’s compare the Bible and the Qur’an, shall we?

The Bible: A compilation of poetry, stories, eyewitness accounts, songs, wisdom, letters and fulfilled prophecies written across several thousand years.

The Qur’an: A single book authored by an Arab warlord claiming to be receiving direct revelation from god, after being visited by an angel. Also claims that the Bible is a previous revelation sent, and this is the addition of it (Qur’an 5:47). Contradicts the entire message of the Bible which says that even if an angel appears in contradiction of it, they are cursed (Galatians 1:8)

They aren’t comparable.

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I’m not unable to provide proof. It depends what you’re specifically looking proof of and your standard of proof. For Jesus all we could possibly have for Him is historical records. But I know you’ll dismiss them as “not being proof”. What proof do you want?

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How could an infinite concept like the Mandelbrot set exist in a finite universe?

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It’s not that I’m moving the goalposts, atheists moved the goalposts to impossibility. If the universe is finite and there’s nothing infinite beyond, infinite concepts cannot exist. Neither can objective morality. It’s like looking at a cake and asking for evidence that somebody baked it.

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So basically your method is “Disregard all evidence of God as being something else”. Seems rational.

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I do, it just doesn’t meet your ridiculous standard

Evangelical app 'Bless Every Home' is mapping personal information of immigrants and non-Christians in a bid to conduct door-to-door religious conversions and “prayerwalking” rituals targeting them. (newrepublic.com)

It puts a lot of features at the fingertips of the faithful, including the ability to filter whole neighborhoods by religion, ethnicity, “Hispanic country of origin,” “assimilation,” and whether there are children living in the household....

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That’s a lovely idea! /S

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Average nutomic response 🗿

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Sounds like Google

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The year is 2076, we’re all now on Outlook OS.

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Isn’t the Salvation Army not Methodist?

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Oops. I must be thinking of a different organisation, then

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Unibomber is a weird case of terrorism which got sympathy

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Make them yahoo while you’re at it

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Or even something akin to how music works where Apple Music / Spotify / YT Music generally has the same stuff across different services

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