You’re probably right. I don’t like it, but they don’t care about the science.
To me though, this is a breath of fresh air because it will re-enforce the relief and other good feelings that people who transition feel and perhaps quell some of their doubts and fears. I consider that a net positive.
Well. This is good news.
You are assuming that A. Google isn’t scraping data for their own AI, B. that these companies will create their own instances (which opens them up to a certain amount of liability and requires them to retain moderation/admin and maintenance staff (which costs money)). C. That the enshittification of corporate owned versions of Lemmy and the fediverse won’t push people to Lemmy sooner or later.
A fourth assumption you made is that the Threads federation push was made in order to do anything other than create hype around a feature that might draw people away from places like the fediverse. I kind of assumed (maybe I’m wrong) that they were offering it as a way to have all the benefits of federation - namely the assumption of FOSS adjacent services, but with all the “benefits” of corporate social media.
The truth is that it’s likely that Meta absolutely has had a detrimental effect on the fediverse because it has things that pull users away from the fediverse. Instagram has content. For days. And because the fediverse is small (shrinking as you say), and because it doesn’t have an algorithm that pushes certain content to certain users, Meta and the other services that have analogs in the fediverse continue to be popular.
A lot of this is because the fediverse still hasn’t figured out a way to be profitable to content creators and we no longer live in the early 2000’s of YouTube etc where content creation for free was popular.
I’d argue that a lot of the appeal of the fediverse is organic conversation and communication. The popularity of that as a whole is declining because of algorithms that tickle just the right feel good chemicals in our brains.
As for your comment about these corps investing in the fediverse? The only reason for them to do that is if they can make money off it. The major money making scheme the internet is relying on is ad service. So there’s a catch 22 here. I would rather donate money to fedi services than have the fediverse infested with ads.
I don’t want that. Part of the fediverse’s appeal for me is that people aren’t constant trying to sell me things on it.
While I can understand certain communities having "suggest a (game, service, product), for the most part I really don’t want to basically invite corps to think this is free real estate. And that’s exactly what I think this would do.
It’s seems like it would invite corps to basically astroturf Lemmy and the fediverse the way they’re doing with bot armies over on reddit.
That’s my comfort lemon husk.
I’ll mess with it one day. Just gotta remember to poke around with it.
I use Voyager (and boost, and sync before that). I like Voyager (now that I’m used to it), but I wish the medium sized thumbnails in compact mode were slightly larger.
That’s not the question you asked.
Windows 1.0 launched in 1985. Which was 40 years ago.
This is one of the things that smart phones have done for me.
I may not remember I wrote it down, but I will remember where because it’s in the notes app on my smart phone.
That being said, this obviously still doesn’t really solve anything if I don’t even remember there was something to be written down.
And it creates a brand new problem if I do remember because then I get caught up scrolling through notes trying to figure out what they mean, if I still need them, and lamenting that I didn’t remember to check notes for these other things back then.
I understand your fears. I live in the US. My son is autistic. My youngest brother is autistic. Both I and my youngest sister have ADHD.
We were all diagnosed as children and my parents could only afford to help the worse off of us (my youngest brother) so that’s where their time, effort, and money went.
I struggled for years. My sister struggled for years. Because there was no support for us.
But I want you to understand that (as someone who suspects they also have Autism), the support for children with autism and ADHD far outweighs what is available for adults, and it might be more beneficial to him to give him support now than to allow him to suffer in some aspects without it.
The support he’s already getting likely won’t cover everything.
I would fight for your son and my son and all the others who could likely be affected by the current regime. Others will too. There’s so many more of us than people think and there’s power in that.
At the end of the day your child and his care is your business. I’m sure you’ve thought this through a million times.
I just wanted to express that there’s a downside to it.
Mostly because I don’t like gaming on windows and I want things to work without having to tweak every single security feature and all the junk I turned off every single time there’s an update. I’m also tired of MS breaking things with updates and generally using the public as free beta testers to the detriment of their products.
Also, fuck 365.
I read an article the other day about the woman who wrote that tell all book about Meta. Supposedly (according to the article) she faces a $50K fine every time she breaks the contract she agreed to when departing the company by defaming them. But she has not ever been charged that fine. But she is facing bankruptcy.
That’s an article that’s so poorly written that it literally doesn’t seem to have warranted any comment except mine which says literally “I do not understand the facts presented in this article and how they correlate”. Last I checked there were no other comments.
We see articles like this all the time.
If it was, people would have left Lemmy and made their way to piefed or similar. As it stands they either don’t know he made statements at all (I didn’t know), or they don’t care.
It’s pretty cool being a member of a den of iniquity.
Because they will create their own circlejerk in the fediverse too and people will leave them alone to do it. Instances would likely defederate from a truth social instance if it were federated. They are also in the habit of banning anyone who speaks against their side so it wouldn’t do much good to try.
I suggested “Fedlings” in the main thread and I think that could work for the fediverse at large.
I really like it too. If it takes off, no need to attribute it to me. I’m sure other people have also thought of it.
I like “Fedlings” personally.
Can I ask what you’re planning to use block chain for? To verify each account? Or to federate instances?