The whole point of federated social media was to get out of walled gardens, yet here we are, building a walled garden.
To an extent yes, but I think it’s pretty easy to see why people are building their own closed communities on the Fediverse. That was the whole “selling point” of it at the beginning. “Not happy with Twitter? Just spin up your own fedi instance where you have your own rules and you can control who joins and who doesn’t”.
You know that it is comically easy to scrape stuff off of the fediverse, right?
Yes, so why would you argue in favour of making it even easier? Do you see why people aren’t too hot on that?
If you are worried about scraping, use Facebook. Facebook has teams of people who combat bot/scraper activity.
I don’t use Facebook for philosophical reasons and that’s why I’ve picked the Fediverse as a whole. I find it amazing we still need to re-explain that all the time.
We’re talking about Meta and Dorsey’s baby (yeah sure, he’s not there anymore but we all know what kind of company he backs) and you’re talking about startups?
Instead, if Bluesky grows, I can see people move away from it.
When has that ever worked?
This is how we wish to present ourselves as an alternative to corporate social media?
The whole idea in the first place was to NOT be corporate. It’s pretty understandable that when those corporations come knocking pretending to be nice, a lot of people want nothing to do with it.
I keep seeing this argument but like… no. It doesn’t scrap stuff, it merely facilitates scrapping. Come on, can we stop pretending for a second.
“I didn’t kill him, the bullet, gravity and velocity did.”
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There is a metaphor about Britain tucked in there.
Are you stupid or just pretending to be? She isnt doing 2 things at once, that’s exactly the problem and the point was: “priorities”.
“Whataboutism” = someone who discovered politics on twitter with bad cheetos orange man
“I don’t have an opinion on genocide”. That’s cool, dude. Pro tip: don’t advertise that in good society.
Are you stupid or just pretending to be? She isnt doing 2 things at once, that’s exactly the problem and the point was: “priorities”.
Mass murdering brown kids? Go ahead champ, here are a few more billions so you can keep doing and it’s antisemitic to call me out for it.
Cant get my blue bubble??? Now wait a fucking minute champ 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
They haven’t because it was slightly convoluted (and you had to fork over some money to Apple) AND it was free.
They’ve removed the difficult bit, the “apple gets its share first” and the free part.
I’d be shocked if Apple’s leadership hasn’t contracted a hitman yet.
If we really want to boycott Israeli products and techs, we won’t get access to modern tech at all - they are everywhere.
lol what
Whilst apps made straight from the country doing the killing (and often by people who do, support or encourage the killing) are perfectly fine.
No in some cases it’s literally not an option.
Rental agencies won’t contact you on anything other than WhatsApp where I live (im serious, they won’t, they have 45 other prospective renters who want the same place you do and they all have WhatsApp).
So it’s a deeper issue than just a content one as I need a roof over my head.
Long time FF user, things really aren’t looking good for Mozilla as a whole.