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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Looking at feddit.org’s homepage now, it has this rule:

    “Content that is illegal in Germany, Austria or Switzerland will be deleted and can lead to an immediate ban of the account.” (emphasis mine)

    I am totally ignorant of how German law applies to social media hosted in Austria and moderated by Germans, but the intent to not host content illegal in Germany seems clear and a clear motivation for their censorship. I also can’t evaluate the quality of their censorship because I’m not familiar with the requirements of German law.

    I wish some of those comments “just expressing dissatisfaction and questioning the policy” had survived, because without them it’s your word against theirs. :(







  • I’ve been using vertical tabs for a while now. It rearranges your address bar and that’s going to take some time and annoyance to sort out, but I’ve got it back to where I like it.

    Vertical tabs aren’t as great as they would have been ten years ago. So many websites nowadays use a two- or three-column layout to use the excess horizontal space on a normal screen, and having the vertical tabs showing full length often compresses those. Thankfully there’s a button to switch between full-length tabs and just the favicon for those sites.