Best of the year, in January? 🤔

Let's make farting in public a crime.

But there won't be a general election until 2025. And a week is a long time in politics.

The original purpose of the police was crime prevention. They should be out on the beat, not sitting in the office staring at screens. Having police wandering around deters crime.

People on Mastodon are complaining about people talking about twitter, and posting their complaints to the hashtag #twitter which is very odd, as they could filter it.

I expect there will be filters on Lemmy eventually.

They also force you to use cookies if you don't want to see them over and over.

GDPR is an EU law, and cookie warnings existed before GDPR anyway, as a result of EU law.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/jp5a77/google-a-search-company-has-made-its-internet-archive-impossible-to-search

I remember it filling groups with non-text posts which could not be read by Usenet clients, among other things.

Remember what Google Groups did to Usenet? We should be wary.

If it is software how do you know who has implemented it and whether the instance respects privacy?

I discovered google had recorded all the hashtags I had visited on mastodon. I thought I had turned off this recording, but there were additional categories which I think they have added since the last time I was there.

Of course the UK government and ISP record everything too, by URL, so that includes hashtags, even this post has a unique URL.