James R Kirk

“Fag” is a homophobic slur and “shoop da woop” is a blackface meme and yes it was all very normal 4chan.

“fag” is a homophobic slur that was actually even more hurtful to use back in the early 2000s when LGBT people were a lot less accepted by society than today. That said your Dad is technically correct and it was a “term of endearment” among homophobes on 4chan which was largely comprised of straight white men in college had/has a self-deprecating sense of humor.

Is there a source anywhere for this besides this youtubers saying so? I searched but was unable to find anything.

those powered by Bluesky’s AT Protocol

Like what? Which platforms are those Sarah Perez writing for TechCrunch? Can you name more than one?

major GPT vibes

“Portable identities” is a major feature of Mastodon and ActivityPub platforms in general. It’ll be on Lemmy one day too.

Top highly upvoted comment saying you need different accounts for each instance 🤦🏻

Time to jump into the fray I guess

I agree totally. I think people benefit of think of their instance as the window through which they view the rest of the Fediverse.

Yes was happy to see their edit