Speaking of hosting, Discord used to be one of the biggest (inadvertent) image hosts, so they might have set up the system to reduce legal exposure than to monitor conversations per se.[1]

A lot of the internet broke the day they flipped that switch off.

Weren't external Tumblr hotlinks also a thing back in the day?

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/16uy0an/not_sur...

From an accessibility perspective, the HTML emoji might be an issue for screen readers.

You can still keep them as `h2#foo::before{content: "emoji ";}` CSS pseudo-elements instead, if memory serves.

(Used "emoji" as a placeholder to ensure it renders in the example.)

Great project; (way) more websites should look like this.

The number of times I've read articles about the upcoming "Silicon Valley in Europe" warrants an article running through the last twenty years of the EU getting its act together "any day now".

I checked out the website, and it looks more like Instagram than TikTok. We've had a few TikTok-like apps, and it didn't work out. Even the people behind Vine couldn't make their own Byte app take off:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huddles_(app)

TikTok showed that the platform lives and dies by the algorithm and ease of use. I'm not even a huge fan of TikTok's recommendations these days with too much slop slipping through the cracks. And their comment moderation is some of the worst.

If another platform ever gets popular enough, I'm sure the same people will find another way to neutralize it.

Yeah, I read about this thing called network effects on blue sky.

stream.place[1] operates in a similar way but for stream livechats! We haven't even begun to scratch the surface on how Bluesky comments are going to be used, apparently.

[1]: https://stream.place

I just tried to download a podcast series from Spotify today, and even this turned out to be a massive pain: no dice on gallery-dl, yt-dlp, and the browser doesn't have a dedicated download option, even when logged in.

I was redirected to the Windows app to download an episode, and then I got denied from using the app because I was on a VPN with a different location than the one they had on file for me.

Genuinely wonder how much podcast history we're going to lose, if we're just making walled gardens out of RSS feeds at this point. Hope someone does back up the Spotify-exclusive podcasts somewhere.

    Undo Close Tab - A very handy add-on, adds a button to quickly undo
    a closed tab. There is probably a shortcut for that, but I
    cannot bother remembering it.

It's Ctrl+Shift+T for those wondering. Works similarly if the last thing you closed was a window.

To be be honest, the worst Google-like thing about the before and after is how you have to scroll down to see actual results. On my iPhone, I get half of an app showing below the full sponsored app.

Just makes me want to find iOS apps through other means than the App Store.

Hydro Flask cooler cup. No more rushing to finish cans before they get lukewarm.

Give these people the Nobel Prize as far as I'm concerned.

https://www.hydroflask.com/12-oz-cooler-cup

I remember these from their weird Twitter posting, too. I muted them because they sounded like some weird astroturfing for Twitter that kept getting recommended.

https://x.com/ReclaimTheNetHQ