JelloBrains

Now, I am on the can we ban Threads train, I wasn’t at first because they hadn’t gotten involved in actually joining the rest of us, now they are and they’ve admitted they want all our information too, I just don’t want any part of that.

Things collected from fediverse participants that interact with Meta users…

- Username
- Profile Picture
- IP Address
- Name of Third Party Service
- Posts from profile
- Post interactions (Follow, Like, Reshare, Mentions)

They’ve never met a piece of data they didn’t want to mine, have they?

Mastodon also doesn’t feed you content from my understanding, you have to curate your feed yourself, and a lot of people don’t mind the algorithm of places like TwitterX and Facebook feeding them random stuff.

Credit score · Optional
App functionality, Fraud prevention, security, and compliance, Account management

What function could Meta possibly need for this? Why would Instagram/Threads (Same policy it looks like) need your Credit Score? WTF?

I’d only touch this if the team behind Instander made an app for Threads and I’d still use fake info.

What is the bottom line here? Is Youtube big enough to be allowed to publish full albums of Pink Floyd? Or does Youtube pay a dime to Universal so they are allowed to publish the audio content?

The short answer to both is likely, yes.

Google has a lot of money and can prolong court cases, you’ll notice most copyright bullies tend to go after the small fish so they can get a precedent before using it against the bigger fish. What protects them the most is that they have installed their copyright system, Content ID, which allows Universal to upload hashes for their content and it will then hunt for any video with that in it, at which point the automated system is designed to block the content or leave it up if that’s the publishers wants or monetize the content and send the money to the publisher.

My question is: If Youtube can go away Scot’s free with this, why can’t the fediverse? If we start to host massive video/audio content, what will happen to the fediverse?

The owner of those instances will likely be sued, if their server host doesn’t kick them to the curb first, probably both.

PS2/PS4 controllers feel like they fit my hands the best, the PS5 controller seems a bit large for my liking. I really like the Xbox Series S|X controller but the plastic etching and rumble make my hands go numb after about an hour, if they could fix that I think it would beat the others.

Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty, but I’ll give Wolfenstein 3D an honorable mention.