They don't care about the users who are making a fuss. In fact, they want those users to leave. They want the complacent social media users who can be easily monitized.
JonEFive
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It isn't "arbitrary" though. ActivityPub is just a baseline protocol that supports interoperability. Apps like Lemmy and Kbin build upon that framework, but also implement their own unique features and interfaces.
There's definitely value to being able to specifically search for Lemmy instances or things coming from Lemmy as much as any other fediverse app. But to your point, that could be handled through a filter on a much larger whatever set of data.
The stance from this author sounds like someone who doesn't want to have a dozen social media accounts. If only there was a way to have one account that could participate across a wide variety of sites. We could call it... The togethercosmos!
Is this particular individual the unfit mother?
They simply don't care. They don't see the problem with it, and no matter how you explain it, privacy is just never a priority for these people.
I don't know who Twitter thinks they're fooling with this. Pretty sure Meta already had the knowledge on how to build a successful social media platform or two. I haven't downloaded Threads yet and don't plan to because Meta, but I imagine it's basically Instagram without the picture requirement and some fancy url handling.
Hey cool, my first opportunity to block a troll on the fediverse!
New barely newsworthy post appears.
Reddit staff: A MILLION BAJILLION UPVOTES!
Yeah, people tend to forget how this all started. He just wanted to see under the hood and he was told that the only way he could do that was if he bought the company.
He saw a big opportunity to both get what he wanted and to manipulate the stock market in a big way. So he made a credible offer thinking that he was smart enough to create a loophole that would give him a way out. His loophole didn't pan out although the stock market manipulation arguably did.
He got too far along in the process to back out and the SEC doesn't fuck around. There was no option other than to actually make good on his offer to buy the company. I don't think he ever truly wanted to own Twitter, but I never thought he would set the company ablaze in such a spectacular fashion.
Same. Outer Worlds has been on my wishlist forever. Now it's in my humble choice for free* (well, the $100/year I paid). Humble Choice can be really hit or miss in the quality of games they put out, but every so often you'll get a gem or two.
It's a lot like Twitter. Twitter was doing alright prior to Musk. Their user base was as strong and plentiful as ever. There have always been shitty users and toxic corners but Twitter did their best to downplay that and highlight the better parts of their platform. They did their best to walk that fine line between moderation and censorship.
But with Musk spending $44bn so that he could meme without consequence and restore accounts of politically powerful people to gain favor, along with him gutting all of the departments that did the moderation, the site has gone from a legitimate place to interact to a well known cesspool of toxicity that users and corporations are starting to shy away from. Turns out that getting rid of moderators might not be such a good idea.
There are still a great many users on Twitter who are actively participating and that won't change anytime soon. But the ratio of good content to bad has changed and Twitter's reputation both as a company and as a platform has been tarnished. Twitter isn't going anywhere, but many people have grown weary of the antics and moved on. And that's what we're seeing of reddit right now. The only difference is the simultaneous mass, organized exodus of users from reddit vs the more gradual enshitification of Twitter.
All completely missing the irony that forced speech is antithetical to free speech that patriots love so much.