What about it
HughJanus
joined 2 years ago
This isn't the brilliant revelation you think it is.
Yet another great reason to Pirate
Good, they suck at it anyway. And podcasts are one of those rare things in this day and age that is federated, truly "open" and also mainstream so fuck them for trying to ruin that.
What are purge lines for?
To purge the system?
The reason is called the Digital Markets Act.
Facebook is not federating.
I still can't make sense of Mastodon threads.
The problem I see with almost every Fedi product is that they just try to clone whatever is popular instead of considering what makes sense.
Character limits make absolutely no sense.
Tagging 12 different fuckin people automatically 34 replies down the thread makes no sense.
The layout and the way it's displayed makes no sense.
It makes no sense for PixelFed to federate with other micro-blogging services or to include the teeny tiny fucking buttons.
Lemmy has very easy to follow and legible threads but Twitter/Mastodon ones just confuse the absolute fuck out of me.
didn't we create and use fediverse software like Mastodon, Lemmy, PixelFed etc in large part to escape the constant hate-baiting and algorithmic manipulation of companies like Meta?
"We" created the Fedi to have interoperable systems and to give users autonomy over their accounts and their feeds. That's why there's an option for users to block other users and even entire servers.
Why are so many in the fediverse prepared to throw their fellow fediverse users under the bus
No one is doing that.
If Threads was a fediverse instance, it would've been defederated from by just about everyone by now.
True.
Why are some people bending over backwards to give Meta a free pass?
No one wants to give Meta a "free pass". We want a way for Meta users to see that they can leave the platform, escape the ads and data-mining without losing access to their friends, family, news, etc. It's specifically because Meta is so terrible that we want to federate.
You see it as the Fediverse promoting Meta but we see the opposite.
'Wait and see' I hear people say
I've literally never seen anyone say this except FediPacters as a strawman. No one needs to "wait and see". We know exactly what we're getting.
OP said "the software and driver support isn't there".
Someone replied and corrected them to explain the software and driver support does in fact exist.
OP replied to say that what he actually meant was that it didn't support the specific software and driver they wanted to use.
Seems like a perfectly reasonable conversation.