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Its not going to be hardware level lock but linked to Apple ID region. For some it will definitely be worth jumping through some hoops but I think 99% will bail at having to arrange payment method that confirms their EU residency.

What is going on with Kbin (kbin.melroy.org)

I almost feel like it's October last year, when I pled for improvement on all fronts regarding the Kbin development strategy. Now it seems development has ceased once again and there hasn't been chat on the matrix channels for over a week. Update: that's two weeks now (including his blog) and over a month of no visible...

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Ernest is still posting devlogs:

kbin.social/u/ernest

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@fediverse Is this a title ?

So... Theoretically this should be visible from Lemmy. Hi Lemmy users ! Greeting from Mastodon !
(Im never leaving the fediverse if this works)

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I’m fairly sure Lemmy image embeds won’t be visible in Mastodon since it doesn’t have rich text formatting / markdown.

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Don’t let anyone tell you what counts and doesn’t. If you believe it did then it did.

I haven’t played that game and I have no idea what you’re talking about but I stand by my advice.

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I had good luck with paying for YouTube Premium. Can use a VPN to get it so dirt cheap I wouldn’t bother with working around it.

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I’m perfectly aware. Everyone keeps saying that piracy is a convenience issue but people seem to go great lengths to get YouTube for free given how expensive it is to run and how much value it provides.

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It’s telling that you’re completly skipping over content creators.

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If this becomes a high risk then this form of verification will be dropped. If it’s going to be assessed as relatively low risk then online / webcam verification will have risk scoring penalty adjusted. KYC will still exist. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

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This is genuinely one of the most useful Analogue Pocket criticisms. Before buying AP you should watch this and either Digital Foundry or My Life In Gaming reviews. I still bought one and don’t regret it but you should know what you’re getting yourself into.

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That would be quite easy given that Gmail launched in 2004 as invite-only and access has been somewhat limited well into 2007.

Geez, Fedipact people talking about XMPP prove time and time again that they’re too young to remember that.

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My smart home is Homekit + Homebridge based and I don’t have that much smart devices so I’m not super up to date. The way I understand this, Matter is supposed to make Homebridge unnecessary and after many delays it finally happened to some degree, hence inclusion in “year in review” type of article. I know of Home Assistant but did it get any big updates this year?

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I think it will be okay for smaller manufacturers, right now they have to spend resources on supporting multiple major smart home platforms so Matter will make their lives a bit easier.

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Vergecast people and @davidpierce who wrote this piece have been on board with Activity Pub for much longer than Threads has even been a thing.

I do wonder if they know about Lemmy though :)

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What an infuriating UI design, red for federated and green for blocked?

Either way, thanks for a useful link since my instance admin blocked Threads for whatever reason and I needed to find a new one. Cheers!

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With FB and every other instance. Are you vetting who has controlling stake in every instance you federate with?

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Article added to post body now.

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The article lacks some details that are inconvenient to the point it makes. What was the state of XMPP before being adopted by tech giants and after they dropped it / walled it off? What could be done to prevent it?

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Yes, it was a good alternative, and it remains good alternative now although Matrix seems way more popular these days. Nothing really changed regardless of adopting XMPP because with a hindsight we know that for tech giants it’s the platform and not protocol that captures mainstream popularity:

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This is a lot of text about Meta being evil which nobody disputes. But you didn’t answer the question.

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There’s one comment speaking about EEE which regurgitated talking points from that one blog post, with author missing the point on why XMPP was unsuccessful. Nothing else but it could be because my instance doesn’t federate with some weirdo instances.

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If they opened as read only then they created API in a most convoluted way possible. If that ridonculous claim is true then I wonder when we see first third party Threads apps.

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blog.joinmastodon.org/…/what-to-know-about-thread…

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How does defederating prevent that from happening anyway?

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The whole argument is that Meta will do whatever they want with their implementation of Activity Pub and lacks any further details. Blast radius of what? How does that affect existing Mastodon instances? Do they lose anything compared to what they have now?

Threads doesn’t need Mastodon users because it has orders of magnitude more already. Mastodon has unique competitive advantage, for example no ads, that could compel Threads users to switch with little friction. It might turn out that Threads will offer things Mastodon won’t on principle (follower and notification management for huge accounts) which might actually make whole ecosystem more healthy and diverse.

Really, it’s best to see what’s going to happen. I’m optimistic because I think open alternatives are generally better and will win long term.

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I’m getting an impression you’re not using Mastodon. Vast majority of Mastodon users are there for a very specific reason, to decouple from corporate social networks, and won’t switch, period.

My optimism is grounded on having reasons to believe Meta is implementing Activity Pub so that EU regulators will allow them to operate here depending on whether Meta plays nice.

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They have orders of magnitude more users than all Mastodon instances combined already.

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BS. There are 140 mil Threads accounts and over 2 bil Instagram accounts. You can create Threads account with Instagram and for a time they couldn’t be decouple but that changed too.

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