The whole Fediverse is at danger from a EEE takeover by Meta.
This isn’t a threat that can be dealt with by moving to another instance. That’s a death spiral.
The whole Fediverse is at danger from a EEE takeover by Meta.
This isn’t a threat that can be dealt with by moving to another instance. That’s a death spiral.
They absolutely matter, how could you think otherwise? What an absurd statement
young people
I disagree, I think Apple users are elitist picks who care about brand recognition way more than is healthy. Text bubble color, seriously? The level of peer pressure that young people face to use apple products is unhealthy for society.
Funny, I use web browsers because apps are almost universally terrible. Tons of white space, suck up all your data, need a sign in which usually just redirects to a web page anyway, bloated, run slower, oh and most important of all I can’t block ads.
No, [every company in existence], I do not want to download your app.
I like it lol
Apple users need to be taken down a peg.
There are plenty of services that maintains lists of “bad IPs” or “VPN IPs”.
Yeah and they’re dicks for doing so.
VPNs are a very basic privacy tool, everyone should be using a VPN at all times.
I would have phrased it as “supporting” Threads. If you don’t defederate, Threads will take over your instance. Either directly through the sheer amount of posts, or indirectly by colluding with your instance admins. Or both. It’s how they operate. And then the ads and data harvesting and walled gardens will come.
Defederating would pretty much cut off a lot of potential new users that want to see posts on Threads while also not wanting to have a Meta account and all the issues that come with it.
Kinda the point, no? Kill Threads in the cradle by denying it access to the fediverse.
Ugh I wish it wasn’t a video. Just give me a recipe, maybe a couple of pictures. Maybe. I can read a recipe in 30 seconds. Instead I have to watch a 7 minute video.
After the fox news thing, the sane ones split and left for r/workreform. Which is a more reasonable community whose tone was, “we don’t mind working but we want to be fairly treated, and the best way to assure that is through unionizing or leaving for better jobs”. None of that “I literally think no one should work and someone else should pay all of our bills” crap.
because in your terms beehaw/lemmy is dead
Huh? No, I’d say the opposite, the fediverse is in the sweet spot right now.
Whoa, no way!
I need to go edit my community
The one great thing about mega communities with long histories is recommendations. I would go to r/movies and search through old “what’s the best [x] movie” a LOT. Or in my city sub, “where’s the best burger”, etc
But yeah, I think the bad mostly outweighs the good.
I love that “kbinauts” is gaining traction
I wish kbin made it more obvious what instance a given thread in your feed is from. If it’s from lemmy, I know I can post memes and I should be prepared for flame wars. If it’s from beehaw, I know I can have a thoughtful and respectful conversation. I’m okay with either, but I don’t want to accidentally write an essay on lemmy that no one will read, or pick a fight on beehaw with someone who had no ill intent.
If it’s from kbin I know we’ll spend some time talking about how great everything is and how we’re all just stoked to be here 😁
There’s a sweet spot. A dead forum is of no use to anyone. Reddit had a good few years where there were enough users to have a good exchange of information, and not a sea of low effort posts. I think it all changed when they started advertising their app and “new reddit” on Facebook.
Beehaw in particular is difficult to find the correct syntax to search on kbin. If you’re signed into your kbin account, and you enter the url https://kbin.social/m/[email protected] you’ll get to this community. Likewise, https://kbin.social/m/[email protected] is the beehaw science community, etc
As for finding communities in the first place, I just open a new tab and go to https://beehaw.org/communities
It kinda breaks my head that some people would PREFER doomscrolling. I always thought of it as a cheap psychological trick by designers to keep eyes on ads.
Oooof that is some grade A copium.
The idea of an independent fediverse is very dangerous to traditional social media and it’s worth its weight in gold to destroy it, especially before it gets too big.
And dare I add, DUH.
All of this is really obvious stuff that we’ve seen happen to hundreds of new technologies and small companies before. The idea that “no, it won’t happen to us, because reasons” is just sad.