I look up and right then roll to up and left. Are there people that actually do a full circle?

I guessed it based on the picture but I’ve never heard of them either

Wait what? I’ve never seen it, how does that make sense?

Is there a sci Fi world where that ancient civilization is just the current modern day?

The older I get the more I learn about the workers history that the rich have hidden from us, so of course I become more socialist.

Is this how Kool aid man was made?

Wouldn’t reducer be more precise?

I don’t think any body for example would brush their teeth completely sub consciously, but when it becomes a habit I’d say it becomes the default choice rather than something you need to remember to go out of your way to do.

It depends on the project. A server used by thousand of users and companies? Super secure. A random library with barely any usage or engagement? I wouldn’t trust it without reading the source first.

Holy shit, I thought this was supposed to be a list of cult warning signs in increasing escalation and was like this makes no sense. I didn’t realize this was actually rules for their cult. WTF.

I assumed they were pretty common in cities. I don’t know how practical they would be in suburbs.

Here’s a secret, online analytics are never that accurate. They’re a huge mess pretty much everywhere. If you want to get real insights from analytics the best thing to do is compare things relatively, like with a/b testing.

I don’t understand how with all the ai we have not it can’t auto correct properly with the context of the sentence, but I still can’t use letter typing as an alternative, it’s too slow

When it comes to dating? Yes. Absolutely. Why would you think that beliefs are a non factor for dating?

Surfshark does have a Linux gui now. I got them because they had a really good deal going on at the time but I can’t comment if they’re the best option.

Do all that and a single cruise ship will undo it in about 3 second

And it’s already illegal in California where both Twitter and Facebook are headquartered

Threads is bootstrapped off Instagram. People I know who tried it out like it because they don’t need to rebuild their network, it just copies the Instagram followers over so you start with all your follows and followers. Instagram also has over 2 billion users so they probably just tacked this on top of the existing Instagram infrastructure and called it a day. Instagram already supported comments so the backend for this probably required minimal changes.

The hard part is scaling and building a user base, but threads simply bootstrapped both off Instagram so it probably wasn’t hard for them to make.

He chose to get cocky right when competition caught up

Unfortunately meta owns Instagram, and while Facebook and oculus are floundering, Instagram isn’t.

They had good engineers?

You wouldn’t necessarily want this since communities are different depending on the context of the instance it may not be relevant to you. It would be great however to be able to create combos of the communities you subscribe to.

Open source software is safe because so few people use it it’s not worth a hacker’s time to break into it (joking, but of course that doesn’t apply to server software)

1. By providing better services and features. Corporations are capable of providing good pro user services when they’re forced to through competition, but what they’ll do is do that until they build a big enough user base then splinter off and start pulling the same shit again. It’s the whole thing behind embrace-extend-extinguish.
2. Money. Lots of money. If money doesn’t work they’ll try to compete on point 1.
3. Agree. Most people will be too lazy and unprincipled to care, but I’m fine with a smaller higher quality community and Lemmy makes that possible. If corporations get a foothold on the platform it’ll still be impossible for them to get a 100% monopoly like they can on their own proprietary centralized platforms.

On the corner hand I unsubbed from the meme Reddit because it was horrible cringe. This meme doesn’t make sense (don’t really think it even qualifies as a meme), but it’s at least bearable and I understand the joke it’s attempting to make.

Also not smelling is neutral while the other two aren’t. Nobody said “there is an appropriate amount of light in here” or “there’s an expected amount of background noise”.

Dark and quiet are the extreme ends of the spectrum. I think smelling bad and good are the ends of the spectrum for smells, although smell is much more multi dimensional, but no smell is neutral.

Yo man this isn’t enders game

There will always be niche instances. Federation just solves the content problem of niche communities. Ideally you find a instance with a niche community you like and you interact with them first but if you run out of things to look at you can just move on to the infinite content of the fediverse.

A tree fell on the road blocking the path! Why don’t you eat the tree?

Yup! But they put them in the promotions tab so they kinda blend in with promotional emails and they’re presented very natively. The only way you can tell the difference is a little ad symbol.

They can’t over exploit their users because users have choice. Back when Gmail first came out there was a rush between companies to provide the most storage and features and that’s because email being an open standard inherently encourages competition!

So it would need to be a movement across instances, not just a single action, but given the principles of the user base here and why we’re here I think that movement would be very successful.

Most email providers are monetized. For most providers you either pay a subscription or they inject ads. The important thing is if they get too greedy and start providing a bad service you can switch providers.

Email services are monetizable, but email itself cannot because it’s not a tangible thing, it’s an idea and agreement to follow that idea.

How does defederation work? Is it global or is it in a per instance basis?

The big difference with Lemmy is that it’s not really a service, it’s a open protocol and standard, like email, or http. The service itself is provided by distributed instances that adhere to the protocol. Like those protocols, no one company has been able to get a monopoly on it. Some have taken over a lot of it, like Google with Gmail, or cloudflare, but if you don’t want to work with them there are a ton of other options you can go with, and you will not be locked out of the system if you do.

Reddit was a centralized closed source system so if you don’t have a Reddit account then you are locked out of the system completely.

Lemmy is decentralized so no one instance has or can gain a monopoly. If you want to break ties with one instance you can just switch to another one and still participate with it and the rest of the fediverse.

Not only does that give you choice in a worst case scenario, it also keeps all the instances on their toes because they don’t have dictatorial control over their users.

Spez’s fatal miscalculation was that he thought he had user lock in, but unlike other social networks where it’s your only option to keep in contact with your real life friends, or it’s the only platform your favorite creator posts on, they had neither. Almost all accounts were not connected to your real life and posts were mostly links to other platforms. Very few creators had Reddit as their sole posting platform. The interactions were ephemeral and superficial. Dropping Reddit was the easiest service I ever had to drop.