What similar mainstream advantage do you see to the fediverse though?
Liwott
joined 3 years ago
Only relevant sources and no insults, thanks I guess?
US played a direct role in both funding and orchestrating the coup
It did play a role, we agree on that; my point is that it is very speculative to assume that it single-handedly had the whole decisive power. Whether they truly led the revolution is a disputed fact, even among your sources. Same for choosing the new government, the phone call shows they had a say in that, but to my knowledge nothing shows that they single-handedly picked the whole government, as there were other parties involved, including Ukrainian pro-EU and Ukrainian nazis.
That they were going to join NATO is a pure speculation based on the opinions that
- US held all the decisive power over that government
- US's only goal is military expansion
About the latter, do you think an economic weakening of Russia through the EU-deal would not already be a favorable turn for the US? I recall that the official position of the Maidan government was that it was not planning to become a NATO member, at least until the annexation of Crimea.
Because there is no competition. I already explained, people use what they can use and you cannot expect that people code their own frameworks.
The question discussed in the video is not WHY firefox is dying, it is the consequence of that. Other engines exist, maybe Blink is better, the fact is anyway that it has a huge market share, so they have a lot of power on how the web evolves.
Hence, Google has that power. Because Google is the main entity behind Chromium. You can play with word, saying the 80% of contributors is not 100%, that it doesn't give explicit instructions to its employees, that maybe the commit count should be slightly different as to include bounty hunter, libs,... It remains that, as you admit yourself in other thread, Google has the biggest voice in Chromium development.
when I meant 1949 and not 1959 to demonstrate NATO expansion
there's a huge difference between "since the 60's" (as is continuously) and "in the 50's then since the 90's". Depicting what happened in the early 50's as agressive western expansion against peaceful eastern block is at the very least unfair, both sides were preparing for the eventuality of war at that time.
To the east of US and UK, the colonial masters of Anglosphere, is everything else on the east side of theirs.
Spain is West of UK though, at this rate you are realy suggesting that Europe be viewed as Russian territory. It is realy strange to call "eastward expansion" something that happened west of most NATO infrastructure...
User feedback about Friendica
I can follow Lemmy groups from my Friendica account. I am able to follow Lemmy communities and get updates from them. I am able to write comments but they do not appear on Lemmy.
the answer lies somewhere in the middle. Copyleft is that correct middle, in my opinion.
Depends what one's goal is. Is fighting big tech is the most important thing to you, then yes. If you want to share with as many people as possible, no matter their ideology, then no.
Actually, I was only meaning use it internally to improve their own workflow.
They can still bundle it with other things, only release your code, secretly improving only what they did on top of your API and make money out of the bundle, so why stoppping there and using a free license rather than something with a NC clause?
On the other hand, one could argue that GPL would refrain a corp from including your software in their product, while at least the cite you get with the MIT license at least gets you some advertisement and potential contirbutors.
What if other free software developers use a license incompatible with the GPL for their own reason, is it OK to deprive them from the right to simply incorporate your code in the name of fighting big tech?
I don't mean to say that it does not make sense to use the GPL, it is probably the most sensible choice if your aim is to fight big tech corporations. But not every piece of software is written as a commercial weapon.
Tbh this sense of "we are even further in the future" sounds a bit crackpot. I like "Fediverse" :) Also I don't like the trend of changing name
The upvote system likely causes subreddits to only have one view. If your opinion doesn’t align with that view, it will be downvoted and hidden. Opinions that align with that view will float to the top.
This can also happen on lemmy, except that the numbers are not the same.
Nice analysis !
From what I understand about the "lib right" instances, I would not say they don't have a politically biased administration. Individual freedom is fundamentally a liberal/libertarian value. In the case of wolfballs, their sidebar is very explicit about the admin's political opinions :
In addition to the biases that set instances apart, it is probably useful to mention that users of decentralised media will have a tendency to be more anti-corporate and/or privacy enthousiast, which is also probably why socialists and libertarians are more present here than soc-dems and liberals. Plus, as you said, being less mainstream platforms, they often have to face the arrival of banned users from other sites.
I think it is interesting to compare the recurrent migrations of banned Reddit users to Lemmy with last month's massive influx to Mastodon following the latest Elongate. I wonder how things will play out when a zillionaire offers to buy Reddit.
About stats, what happened in early 2021?