With decentralized content and federated services growing in popularity, many existing web technologies are adopting the ActivityPub open standard. Services like Meta’s Threads, Tumblr, Medium, Flipboard, Mozilla, and WordPress.com have all added or announced support of ActivityPub, allowing for their content to be accessible...
The only reason I use WordPress is for the free web hosting. WordPress itself is shit. Things that would be very easy in real html and javascript are hard in WordPress.
Posting to raise awareness of this behavior with kbin. Maybe it's something Ernest can address in the ActivityPub rewrite, maybe it's something that doesn't need to be (or can be) addressed at all....
This is a feature, not a bug. I'm not sure how you know they are the same user, but if they do the same thing that got them blocked before, you can block them again.
Hospitals nationwide are dropping Medicare Advantage plans due to excessive prior authorization denial rates and slow payments from insurers. Scripps and St. Ch
The survey suggests nearly 18 million American adults have suffered from long COVID at some point since the pandemic began — and children can be affected too.
A discussion happening over on beehaw about problems with federation and moderation, and on fundamental issues with Lemmy itself, and what would go into making a fork vs starting something new.
If the community is on kbin that the kbin mod removes the spam. If the community is on lemmy instance than mod on lemmy instance removes spam.
Isn't that how it works? The mod on the community instances removes the spam and then it gets removed on all sites right?
Likewise, mods on lemmy and kbin might lock comments on a post that’s getting toxic, but that lock doesn’t carry over to kbin, and they can’t do anything about it.
Wouldn't a lock on a thread on that community's site prevent any new comments from coming back to that site over the fediverse?
The agency now must decide whether products containing the ingredient, like some Sudafed and NyQuil products, should no longer be sold or perhaps give companies lead time to substitute other ingredients.
An advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration agreed unanimously on Tuesday that a common decongestant ingredient used in many over-the-counter cold medicines is ineffective.
The panel’s vote tees up a likely decision by the agency on whether to essentially ban the ingredient, phenylephrine, which would result in pulling products containing it from store shelves.
If the F.D.A. ordered their removal, a trade group warned that numerous popular products — including Tylenol, Mucinex and Benadryl cold and flu remedies — might become unavailable as companies race to reformulate them.
On Monday and Tuesday, the panel reviewed several existing studies and largely agreed that the research settled the question that the ingredient was useless and no better than a placebo.
Several advisers noted that patients taking the drug were merely delaying their journey to a useful remedy.
“I think we clearly have better options in the over-the-counter space to help our patients, and the studies do not support that this is an effective drug,” said Maria Coyle, the chairwoman of the panel and an associate professor of pharmacy at Ohio State University.
Why It Matters: These Are Popular Staples of the Medicine Cabinet.
Every cold and flu season, millions of Americans reach for these products, some over decades. The decongestant is in at least 250 products that were worth nearly $1.8 billion in sales last year, according to an agency presentation. Among the products: Sudafed Sinus Congestion, Tylenol Cold & Flu Severe, NyQuil Severe Cold & Flu, Theraflu Severe Cold Relief, Mucinex Sinus Max and others.
The ingredient has long been considered safe and effective under an old, outdated agency standard, and the F.D.A. still says that it is safe.
Many remedies that do include phenylephrine also contain other, more effective medicines as well.
And medications that are considered effective for sinus and nasal congestion do still include nasal sprays with phenylephrine, like Afrin, or oral pseudoephedrine, such as Sudafed, or nasal steroids, such as Flonase.
Many popular cold and flu products that don’t specifically target congestion do not include the ingredient.
And it is still widely considered effective when it is used in surgery and to dilate the eyes. It is destroyed in the gut, though, scientists have concluded.
If the agency decides the decongestant should be eliminated from products, it could significantly disrupt the market for the makers of cold medicines if they do not have enough time to replace it in popular items.
What’s more: It could possibly renew widespread use of an alternative, pseudoephedrine, which was placed behind store counters or in locked cabinets because it was often used in illicit meth labs.
Dr. Hendeles, now an emeritus professor, said in an interview on Tuesday that he had been evaluating the ingredient since 1993.
“The bottom line is quality research has told the true story about phenylephrine,” he said.
The F.D.A. has formally now concluded that phenylephrine, when taken orally, is “not effective as a nasal decongestant.”
For consumers, the potential benefits of ending use of the ingredient, the agency suggested, would include avoiding unnecessary costs or delays in care by “taking a drug that has no benefit.”
It is pretty easy to change your default web browser, compared to changing your operating system [Microsoft], your social network of friends [Facebook], or your auction site [Ebay]. Microsoft, Facebook, Ebay, etc all have a far greater lock on their markets because a single person cannot make a switch without degrading their experience.
President Biden is now posting into the fediverse (www.theverge.com)
Biden’s Threads posts can show up in Mastodon clients.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24119353/joe-biden-threads-mastodon-activitypub-fediverse (kbin.social)
President Biden is now posting into the fediverse
How to Set Up ActivityPub for Self-Hosted WordPress Sites (jseggers.com)
With decentralized content and federated services growing in popularity, many existing web technologies are adopting the ActivityPub open standard. Services like Meta’s Threads, Tumblr, Medium, Flipboard, Mozilla, and WordPress.com have all added or announced support of ActivityPub, allowing for their content to be accessible...
Last few days are the least functional kbin has been for me since the July exodus. Just me? (kbin.social)
Just curious if it's somehow got to do with anything on my end. I'm generally desktop-only, firefox-only.
Blocked users who move instances don't stay blocked (kbin.social)
Posting to raise awareness of this behavior with kbin. Maybe it's something Ernest can address in the ActivityPub rewrite, maybe it's something that doesn't need to be (or can be) addressed at all....
Hospitals are dropping Medicare Advantage left and right (www.beckershospitalreview.com)
Hospitals nationwide are dropping Medicare Advantage plans due to excessive prior authorization denial rates and slow payments from insurers. Scripps and St. Ch
Long COVID has affected nearly 7% of American adults, CDC survey data finds (www.cbsnews.com)
The survey suggests nearly 18 million American adults have suffered from long COVID at some point since the pandemic began — and children can be affected too.
Beehaw on Lemmy: The long-term conundrum of staying here (beehaw.org)
A discussion happening over on beehaw about problems with federation and moderation, and on fundamental issues with Lemmy itself, and what would go into making a fork vs starting something new.
How COVID-19 turned a 'baby bust' into a 'baby bump' (www.marketwatch.com)
Doom-and-gloom scenarios about the future of the family and the U.S. economy have not materialized.
With democracy on the ballot, the mainstream press must change its ways (www.theguardian.com)
The American press is failing to adequately emphasize the stakes of the coming election
A Decongestant in Cold Medicines Doesn’t Work at All, an F.D.A. Panel Says. The panel’s vote tees up a likely decision by the agency on whether to essentially ban the ingredient, phenylephrine. (www.nytimes.com)
The agency now must decide whether products containing the ingredient, like some Sudafed and NyQuil products, should no longer be sold or perhaps give companies lead time to substitute other ingredients.
US to argue Google abused power to monopolize internet search as antitrust trial begins (www.theguardian.com)
Outcome could reshape how public accesses and interacts with the internet, or embolden Google to pursue tighter grip on the market
Biden faces continued low approval ratings, concerns about age, poll finds (www.politico.com)
Sixty-seven percent of Democratic and Democratic-leaning surveyed voters said the party should nominate someone other than Biden.