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Love all of these, but really happy to see Sumatra PDF because that thing is just incredible and is a day 1 install on a fresh OS.

I’m not sure if I was the intended reply, but as someone with a Beehaw account I can say that this defed is intended to be temporary and at the behest of better mod tools and better moderation of the offending instances.

Important note is that Hot is current broken in Lemmy leading to older posts getting boosted to the top in error. It’s currently being worked on for the next release.

In all honesty, its better to a have a few accounts anyway. Imagine your main instance goes down for a period of time or permanently. Your account will go down with that ship. Having a few affiliated accounts across the fediverse will help mitigate user downtime. I’ve got accounts at Beehaw, lemmy.world, and here at Kbin.

Depending on the stipulations of the bill it could result in some social media platforms completely removing themselves from Texas. Also beyond the enforcement question, what defines “social media”? Does Discord fit? What about Telegram? What about iMessage? SMS?

Ultimately, and like much of the recent GOP social legislation, this is mainly just a way to show Republican voters they’re “doing” something because none of those same voters will care when this is taken up to the court system and struck down as unconstitutional. Even the article indicates this:

“Critics contend that Texas’ law violates the First Amendment and the principles of limited government and individual responsibility.”