No. Lemmy (and any other FediVerse service) can be targeted for take over from any corporation. But there’s a few things that prevents from thinks like… Idk, Facebook buying Instagram or Musk buying Twitter:
The source code of Lemmy is open. Anyone can just take the code and create another “Lemmy alternative” in case of a buy out.
The underlying protocol (Activity Pub) is open too, and managed by W3C (which manages other things like the HTTP protocol). So I think would be very hard for it to highjack to only work for one company.
You are right, a company can create or buy an instance or another similar service (and probably will, see Threads from Instagram). But they cannot interfere with the other ones. If the instance you’re in was bought and you don’t like the new owners, you can just create another account in another instance and keep following the same communities and content (because of the protocol I mentioned) and having the same experience. Unlike what happened to closed services like reddit that you cannot follow subreddits from here.
Tl;Dr: we are not free of corporate interest, but we have tools to prevent a corporate dominance.
It’s very rare I give up on a book but that’s mostly because I choose books I know I’m going to at least find passable entertainment.
The one I should have given up on was “Annihilation.” I hated it starting about 20% in but kept going to see if it got any better. So many people loved it! Nope, in the end I was just angry at myself for reading that boring junk.
I read Annihilation after I saw the movie. The movie stayed with me for weeks afterwards, the book did not. Also, the movie has one of the best CSN songs ever - Helplessly Hoping
Ansible vault. All my config files and scripts are deployed with Ansible. Usually they are pushing those into a file or environment variable but if you scope permissions narrowly and don’t run services/containers as root you should be somewhat safe. If someone has filesystem access you’re already in big trouble.
Instead I’d focus on keeping your attack surface as small as possible. Keep services behind a VPN or segment public facing services to a separate VLAN or docker network.
Nah, when I think whether it was worth it overwriting 10+ years worth of content in Reddit I just look over and see them come up with yet another shit move. It instantly validates getting off that sinking ship.
After fucking up API access they decided to delete all PMs older than 2023, get rid of awards/gold, and add more dark patterns to force people to their garbage apps.
Seems now that they’re gonna add “tipping” as if it was a disgusting instagram clone with ‘content creators’
They’re quickly tearing down everything that made Reddit unique at all. They don’t want a discussion board, they want a tiktok clone or whatever.
Since I got Yubikey 5, I ended up using Yubico Authenticator. It’s a bit of a PITA since it requires unlocking with the key at each use (NFC or USB), but I grew to actually appreciate that extra layer of protection. The OTP accounts are actually stored on the key (I believe up to 32 per key), so it is highly portable.
App is decent and available for every OS, including Linux.
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