[we are doing it for the] “integrity of information and resources connected to the Clemson network”.
They're not doing it to censor or discourage use. They're doing it because they don't want the software running on their network alongside their network resources.
You can still use tiktok, just not while connected to their network infrastructure.
✅️ is a shopping platform
✅️ has an app ecosystem with a billing api
✅️ high probability that someone who shops online has interacted with a store on the platform
✅️ multiple rounds of layoffs w/ staff stretched thin
✅️ unclear ambitions of being a megaplatform, beyond what it already is
I guess we'll never know, lol
I'd love to take credit but that was midjourney (and all the artists that feed its capabilities.)
I think my prompt was "a logo featuring a mouse holding a magnifying glass"
I've since realized that I should have said lemming instead of mouse, but a dummy like me can only do so much.
Thank you, I appreciate that!
That's interesting about mastodon, I'm not exactly surprised, I feel like it's merely a question of when, not if, apparently that time has already passed for mastodon. I have no doubt folks are already capitalizing or attempting to capitalize on lemmy data in some way or another, or at least letting the data fill their bucket while they figure out how to monetize it.
Fair point! I was thinking that too, but i settled on the idea that it probably would not stop the folks who would actually do this though
To illustrate op's point I'm going to spin up an instance, federate with everyone, and not tell anyone what that instance is.
Then I'm going to feed all that data into my new website, called Open Lemmy Stats, where anyone can query the user data ive accumulated. The homepage will be ripe with insights, leaderboards and all kinds of data on prolific users.
Additionally, I'll display a snapshot/profile of a random user by feeding that users data to GPT4 to make inferences about the user's political affiliations and display the results.
Worst of all, I'm not going to out my instance for everyone to know it as the one to defederate. In fact I'm spinning up a few instances that will host innocuous communities that I plan to mod and support to give my instances cover for their true purpose: redundant fediverse datastreams for my site, Open Lemmy Stats.
I'll also have a store where anyone can buy my collected fediverse data for a handsome sum.
Just kidding I'm not doing any of this. But someone absolutely will or already is.
Connect for lemmy has this on Android. Since others are saying it's on the road map for lemmy, I guess its built into the Connect app and doesn't apply when you login via pc/browser but it should help if you're on mobile, works for me.