Do you have a link that doesn’t get all shitty with mobile (iOS, if it matters)? Perhaps an archive.org or 12ft.io link? I’d copy/paste myself but it seems not to be ok with that.
When I try to click that it demands an app, which I’m not willing to install cuz fuck that. It does this even when I have all settings requesting desktop.
The report hints at it but doesn't really say it out loud: get rid of one particular server and there goes 99% of it, along with 90% or so of the overall Japanese userbase (as they were the first big Japanese instance and had a mostly-trusted locally relevant company behind it). But nearly every non-Japanese-orientated instance already either fully defederated from it or has something to strip media content from it. It's essentially its own thing not really related to Mastodon aside from the software in use.
Hard to tell if he’s winning or losing. If he’s being incentivized to destroy the integrity of a mainstream information-sharing platform, he’s done well. If he in any way wanted to run the company, he’s done laughably bad. I guess time will tell
I’ve always been kind of tin-foil-hatty about that. Like there’s no way he can actually fucking suck this much at this, right? It really seems like somebody paid him to take down a major information sharing platform that helps to further protests and other organized dissent.
Copyright and trademarks are different things. In this case it looks like it applies mainly to the Xbox "X" logo like is seen on this (hilarious) page of the filing and is only for things related to messaging and gaming, so it's not as broad as it sounds. Based on a cursory look at Google results from before July 1st, I can't find any examples of Microsoft actually suing anyone for using the letter X, either.
Abstractly, whatever isn’t generic enough that multiple companies could want the name. For example, you shouldn’t be able to name an online chatroom company something like “Chat” and expect to have the trademark enforced.
Trademark, not copyright. It means that you can’t make something and call it “X” if there’s any chance that your “X” and their “X” might get mixed up. Google ran into this same problem when they created “Alphabet” - it was already a trademark of some German car manufacturer (probably Audi or BMW), but the court ruled that “Alphabet the car company” and “Alphabet the online services company” are far enough apart that the average user probably won’t confuse one for the other (although the Dove soap and Dove chocolate makes me doubt it). Twitter and Microsoft both offer online services. It might be enough of an overlap to constitute a trademark violation.
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