I’m so mad at myself for impulse buying the rtx 3080… can’t wait to switch to team red completely in a couple of years. Or do you think someone is willing to swap their AMD for my nVidia card? 😂
Edit: I just woke up when I wrote the original comment and I can see that it’s not the clearest piece of text I’ve ever produced. What I meant is that I fully agree with defederating (and I’ll do it on my instance), but I don’t think censoring Meta in the core technology (ActivityPub) is the way to go.
It literally is, do you not see the power dynamics here? If the fediverse is to defend itself it must at all cost not federate with Meta or we will end up like XMPP.
Meta doesn’t need Lemmy/Kbin/Mastodon. They are competing with Twitter. Threads will probably have more users than the whole fediverse combined within the first few days.
That’s known, but it’s foolish to think that for example Mastodon isn’t seen as a Twitter alternative. Meta knows that and I think they want to not just be a corporate alternative to twitter, they want to make sure they are the alternative to twitter. The Fediverse has to take measures defending itself or Threads will overtake and stomp over everything, even if the sudden user surge might be appealing to some.
Changeable definitely, would have to think about whether default block is the smart thing to do. It’s hard, I really dislike Meta, but on the other hand if you go censoring instances by default, where does it stop?
IMO this should be the job of articles that tell you how to setup Lemmy, mentioning something like “Note that by default you also allow Meta the access to your instance which might mean privacy breach, here’s how you disable it.”
Many admins are lazy, and they expect their software to run well on sensible defaults, most won’t care and just go with whatever the devs consider to be fine. By choosing wether Meta is blocked or not by default the fediverse will have to take a stance.
Do we allow extremely powerful corporations that want to monopolize their influence but we get a user surge in the short term.
Or do we block them by default and anyone making an instance should make the concious choice to join the corpo-verse themselves so we can continue to foster a healthier alternative to whatever they are cooking.
Its not censorship and its not up to you, the instances are run by private people, they can defederate whatever they want. If you don’t like it use their “service” problem is that due to federation its very problematic to forward data to Facebook, especially for European Servers.
Arbitrarily blocking an actor at the protocol level is directly contrary to the entire point of decentralized protocols in the first place.
I know, Meta bad, but the fact of the matter is that they probably won't be defederated by everyone, actually, because the idea of being able interact with your real friends and family and other people you know is going to be enticing.
I want their products to fail so miserably that they regret coming here, and if i have to host several bot instances to spam the worst shit imaginable on their shitty platform. I don’t want Facebook to be a part of the internet in the future, they can go bankrupt. They don’t deserve the internet.
I know there won’t be a Meta filter in activityhub, its just a wish.
I agree, but I don’t think Facebook is going to openly promote the ability to choose instances or explain federated software. I’m pretty sure everything that makes the fediverse cool is going to be hidden from users.
If this allows at least people to discover how the fediverse works (even if I doubt they will push people to it), it will be a great victory, because it’s the biggest pain for newcomers imo.
Also the simple fact that the fediverse is mentioned will hopefully bring more people here.
Nothing good will come from meta, ever. They will alway look for a way to corrupt any social media to their favor in order try to dominate the Web. At this point of the internet history anyone giving a speck of trust to them is dream walking into a disaster waiting to happen.
Very good example , they create/do/make something nice and find a way to ruin it showing (again) what is their end goal is : lock the cow in their garden to keep on milking it to death
The problem is you don’t want the kind of people Meta will bring here to be here. Also the fact that they’ll take all your info and sell it to every company and government on Earth.
It really needs to be considered that included in that group of "people Meta will bring here" is the vast majority of people's real-world friends and family. And for better or for worse, a lot of people are going to want that, actually.
If meta pushes this it will be to brand themselves with decentralized social media. The average person will associate the concept with meta and assume it was a meta invention. This may be a long play by meta to get in front of things like mastodon/lemmy/kbin/etc and become an established player in the space to the laymen before the actual established players can do so
It’s a gross misuse of their obscene power bordering on monopoly and hardly a good thing. Even if the above isn’t true they will 100% use it to harvest as much data as humanly possible without consent and tons more if you’re stupid enough to give them consent. They will tune algorithms to feed people rage bait and stupid bullshit to drive engagement at all costs. And they’ll load it with intrusive targeted advertising
For the people who don’t want to squint at a weird format image:
Communism: You have two cows. The state takes both and gives you some milk
Fascism: You have two cows. The state takes both and sells you some milk (someone here has a very benign definition of fascism)
Socialism: You have two cows. You give one to your neighbor who had none.
Bureaucratism: You have two cows. The state takes both, kills one, milks the other and then throws the milk away.
Tradition Capitalism: You have two cows. You sell one to buy a bull. Your herd multiplies and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the profit.
Venture Capitalism: You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother in law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island Company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option to buy one more.
French Corporation: You have two cows. You go on strike because you want two.
Italian Corporation: You have two cows. You don’t know where they are. You decide to have lunch
Swiss Corporation: You have 500 cows. None of them belong to you. You just charge for storing them.
American Corporation: You have 2 cows. You sell one and force the other to produce milk like 4 cows. You hire an independent consultant to determine why the cow died.
Indian Company: You have 2 cows. You worship them.
Irish Company: You have 2 cows. One of them is a horse.
Australian Company: You have 2 cows. Business seems pretty good. You close the office and go for a few beers to celebrate.
Iraqi Company. You have no cows. Noone believes you. The US bombs the crap out of you and invades your country. You still have no cows but at least you have a democracy now.
British Company: You have 2 cows. Both are mad.
Greek Company: You have 2 cows borrowed from French and German banks. You eath both. The banks call to collect their milk but you cannot deliver. The IMF loans you 2 cows. You eat both. The banks and the IMF call to collect their milk. You’re out getting a haircut.
Chinese Company: You have 2 cows. You have 300 people milking them. You claim full employment and max bovine productivity. You arrest the journalist who reported the real situation.
Im undecided, to be totally candid I am not super confident in my Ansible skills yet, and dont want to push some of my ansible to github and accidentally expose passwords, public IP addresses, etc. I chose Gitea because it was the first application that came up on Google when I googled “self hosted github”…
I am working on vaulting all of that stuff now and will eventually just move over to Github
Reddit didn’t keep their deadline for the API implementation. I’ve still got Boost installed and it’s still working, nsfw posts however went away yesterday. You can still get nsfw if you use revanced apparently but I’m just checking reddit now out of curiosity.
Perhaps it’s not completely implemented everywhere. You can go to r/BoostforReddit if you want to read more about it. Idk and honestly idc either, the whole thing is kind of a shitshow. When Boost stops working without patching I’m out of the reddit ecosystem for good.
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