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Yes, mostly.

X.com was Musk's site after he worked at Scotiabank. They merged with another site that had a product called Paypal that was getting some traction. Musk tried to tie the other services X.com was offering at the hip with Paypal, and if you're old enough you probably remember a "Paypal by X.com" (or similar) branding back when you needed to buy a used 56k modem from eBay.

Musk wanted to rebrand everything to x.com, was a huge baby about it, and got pushed out as an executive and replaced by Peter Thiel. A few years ago, Musk purchased the X.com domain name from Paypal like it was a treasured childhood sled, and he's finally found something (very stupid) to do with it.

I thought Ms. Marvel was one of the better things that they've done post-Endgame. I liked the Spider-man "neighborhood superhero" vibes in the first half, I liked the themes of a child of diaspora reconnecting with their heritage but still needing to recontextualize it, and Iman Vellani is a god-damn treasure when, as here, she's properly cast. The "hard-light" powers and visuals were a decent enough riff on the "embiggening" power from the comics without asking the audience to accept Stretch Armstrong as a major superhero (Good luck, Mr. Fantastic).

Still had underbaked villains, needless save-the-universe brinksmanship, and some of the flair from the first couple of episodes eroded into Marvel formulas, but overall I enjoyed it.

Thanks so much. Sounds like it's the consensus.

Thanks! I'll have to try Markor in particular.

It's roughly equivalent to using Outlook versus Thunderbird for your email. Same protocol, same ability to interact, but different codebase, slightly different interface, and possibly a few tweaks around the edges where the protocol itself doesn't demand a certain way of doing things.

So, for instance, a "!" link in Lemmy doesn't work in kbin, but remove the exclamation point and it will be fine. A Lemmy community is identical to a Kbin magazine. Properly configured and federated, a Lemmy and a Kbin instance are completely interoperable with each other. Kbin has the "microblog" tab that integrates it better with Mastodon, but I haven't seen a lot of discussion around that part of things, since link aggregation is driving the current increase in users.

One of the interesting things as a newbie is seeing how the relatively small existing population of the Fediverse reacts to the influx of new faces. The article sort of outlines an example of, as far as I understand it, exactly how the federated sites are supposed to work, but actually being faced with it is causing a little bit of trepidation and rethinking of old behaviors. Not really good or bad, just interesting.

And a Russian navigator at the height of the Cold War.