"To the contrary, the decision barely mentions copyright's ultimate purpose of promoting broad public availability of literature, music, and the other arts," it said.
It feels like the thoughts of the past came straight out of fiction. Today, nothing seems worth anything if you can't directly make money from it.
Once federated with Meta, not only "valid Meta users" would join the network, but also bots which would nudge the users, influencing the narrative.
I also have been personally victimized by honk!
For the curious (like me), after doing some googling I found this article (it's about spez): https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-for-the-super-rich
Given this reaction, he seems to be doing something which is working.
Can the ozone be countered by a reverse polarity static charge? Not sure how the laser printer do it, but recent printers barely emit ozone. I think it should be possible.
New money laundering scheme?
While you may dismiss Zuckerberg as delusional, he's shown a talent for using others' ideas and making them profitable under Facebook. The success of Instagram and WhatsApp is proof. Google+ is nowhere to be seen anymore.
As for Mastodon, underestimating Meta's potential threat, particularly federating with Mastodon (this can be seen as "easy hosting" of something like Mastodon), might be a mistake. Even without originality, they have the resources to cause significant disruption.
Not surprising in a kleptocracy thogh.
Burn me once, shame on you. Burn me twice, shame on me. Big corporations want mainly one thing: gobble up as much value exclusively to themselves. They will take whatever means necessary to get there. The strategies to privatize public resources (XMPP, ActivityPub, etc.) are known. They look great for the public on the outside, but over the years will erode the value for everybody BUT them. In order to not let it get as far, many (including me) are of the conviction to not even give them a finger, let alone the whole hand.
They are really well designed too. They lock into place when flipped 180 degrees (drinking mode) and don't interfere at all while drinking.
Which will result in only those remaining which are complicit. This is clearly a negative outcome. 1. For the people resigning, as resigning didn't advance their cause, but made the situation worse. 2. For society, because it made the institution less trustworthy.
Then colleague upgraded glibc by copying it in via scp. Then we couldn't ssh in anymore. :) Not sure how important that server was. I think it was reinstalled soon-ish.
Some other critter would evolve to take their niche. Not sure how long that would take though, but eventually there would be other insects which will annoy you.
Honestly, there isn't much else we can do. Spread the word that there are better alternatives to Threads and don't let them join us. If you prevent "If you can't beat them, join them." then that's a step in the right direction (survival of the network).
The size difference between Meta and Mastodon isn't even funny. Mastodon is basically a rounding error.
But even if Meta wouldn't even represent a significant proportion of the fediverse's user base, their presence could influence the development and evolution of ActivityPub and the network. Meta's financial resources and influence could drive changes that a smaller, independent network like the Fediverse might disagree with but have little power to resist.
But the are definitely called "Müllpandas" which literally translates to trash pandas.
At this stage it's all hot air. Nobody has even started talking about how to finance it and the defense minister isn't even 100% sure he will get his requested additional funds for the next cycle. When somebody asked him about the topic he replied that he isn't categorically against it but he would have to finance (and restructure, as the necessary infrastructure for it has been degraded/scrapped) more important topics first.
Since working with SQLAlchemy a lot (specifically it's SQL compiler, not it's ORM), I don't want to work with SQL any other way. I want to have the possibility to extract column definitions into named variables, reuse queries as columns in other queries, etc. I don't want to concatenate SQL strings ever again.
Having a DSL or even a full language which compiles to SQL is clearly the superior way to work with SQL.
The audience is not the problem. Meta's mere presence on the network will be. We are now at a critical point in the struggle to survive as a network, and it's not looking good.
If we continue like today, the network effect (Google it) would eventually lead to ActivityPub being the de facto too-big-to-fail standard in all of the web. We aren't there yet, though. Meta knows this too and doesn't want it to happen, because extracting value from a diverse network is way harder than from a centralized user base. The fact that they even want to federate in the first place (shouldn't be in their interest!) rings alarm bells.
Do you have a link? I'd like to know that sorry story too.
It does that for some decades already. The trick for dual booting was always to install Linux second. :/
We should bake it into the software (Lemmy, Kbin, Mastodon, etc.) as a first line of defense. If you want to federate, you'd have to fork the server first.
We don't have to rely on them. They initially support open standards, extend those standards with proprietary features, then use those features to outcompete smaller rivals. You can't deny that this would be in their interest. You can't deny that Meta is known for anti-competitive behavior. Why trust them blindly, just because they do something which looks like they have (or act on) the same values than you?
Don't anthropomorphize social networks, they hate that.
That's true. I posted more here in the last 2 months than on the other site in years.
Aww, you didn't normalize.
This is just perfect.
Crazy. North Korea throwing poop. China going on an axe rampage. Which asylum will take those two please?
Underpants!
Their idea is likely to eventually present themselves as the "better part of the network" and make migrating to their servers very easy.
This must be prevented at all costs.
🖕=👍
They don't need to absorb it. They just have to prevent it from growing as fast. The Fediverse grew orders if magnitude over the last month. If this continues, everything will be the Fediverse. Meta obviously doesn't want that and Threads is a panicked attempt to "nip it in the bud".
Are you one? Over the years I've gotten quite paranoid on Reddit. Now, with LLMs, it's even harder to spot them.
I'm not even sure if including a hashcash scheme into the software would actually help, because they are so targeted.
I feel like I'm back in the early 2000s, where it was so bad that "the brightest minds of the generation were spending their time writing spam filters".
We don't get the users on the Fediverse. Brand recognition is benefiting Meta only. They won't advertise with ActivityPub, but will use it as a fig-leaf for the antitrust agencies, where they are under probation.
Your view of the situation is too narrow. It's not about the individual, never has been. It's about the survival of the network. Why would you invite somebody with known anti-competitive tendencies into your network? That just invites bad outcomes.
If I couldn't manage to convince you specifically, this is too important to be taken lightly. You brushed off EEE without addressing the valid points. Please take some time to understand where the main point of the criticism lies and what is at stake.
Try OrganicMaps. It's the best OpenStreetMaps backed app I've ever used, and I've tried almost all of them for 10 years now.
You could be onto something. On of my first language was "dBase" (early 90s) which, through it's style, enabled you to build complex user interfaces with data storage very quickly. I only built small things with it at the time, but it influenced my desire for some better solutions than we have to today.
Well, you can still have the up-to-date plugin, you just have to pay for it now.
I like to think they see the rapid growth as an opportunity to grab some Reddit refugees. I'm not sure they see the Fediverse as a viable threat YET. They could hedge it though and try to snuff it out while they still can.
You underestimate Meta's resources or influence. They have the potential to influence user bases, use competitive pressure (features!) to draw people to their own instance or manipulate the platform (extend ActivityPub) to their advantage.
How many developers does the Fediverse "have"? A few part timers or Patreon financed developers which to tackle servers, apps, etc. Compare that with Meta's (roughly and conservatively estimated) 10000 developers. There is no comparison. The Fediverse can't compete.
Also, assuming the failing of Threads and using it as an excuse is reckless or at least irresponsible. The dangers we are facing right now are too big to be easily brushed of with a "will fail, meh".
I think it is a mistake to underestimate Meta's resolve here. They present a concrete danger to the wider Fediverse and we need to take it seriously.
Missed opportunity. It should have been spelled: "Reddit CEO Diggs in heel ... "