I had no idea you could do this! Joseph Basquin points out that you can manage bookmarks by treating them like files. The drag-and-drop strategy doesn’t work everywhere, but is solid in Chrome and Safari.
If you’re a Spotlight / Alfred / Raycast user on the Mac or the Start menu search on Windows, this might be the fastest possible way to get to a website.
[afewthingz.com]
DomainInvesting spotted the Whois-listed change yesterday.
Last year, threads.com was just the website for a Slack-like app — you can imagine the traffic it got when Meta launched its Twitter alternative. Shopify bought Threads-the-company in June, though, perhaps clearing the way for Meta to scoop the domain for Threads-the-platform. And just in time for its Connect event, no less!
[DomainInvesting.com]
The Browser Company cofounder thinks it’s time to modernize the browser and reinvent the web.
Meta tried to settle, and it tried to appeal, but former moderators and the Kenyan courts have now rejected both attempts according to The Associated Press. In the US, Meta settled with content moderators for $52 million in 2020, after some were diagnosed with PTSD.
Last year, Kenya also ordered Meta to provide mental health care to moderators.
The company is ending its Mozilla.social Fediverse experiment in content moderation and will remove all content and accounts — but you still have time to move elsewhere:
At any point before Dec 17, 2024, you can migrate your account to another instance on Mastodon by following these instructions.
TechCrunch notes that Mozilla had about 270 active Mastodon users as of Tuesday. A tracker based on the Mastodon API reports about 8 million accounts and 1 million or so active users overall.
[support.mozilla.org]
