It sounds like it’s the same situation as the TI calculator signing key which I think was brute forced many years ago, allowing custom firmware to be developed. And also any DVD ripping program which is able to bypass CSS which is also based on a master key that was figured out or leaked. There’s a decent pedigree of master keys not being copyrightable, much to the MPAA / TI lawyers chagrin
At some point I exceeded 500, but I also have firefox simple tab groups (formerly known as panorama) so I’m usually not looking at a window of more than 100 at a time, and any tabs I haven’t visited since last launch aren’t loaded into ram until I click over to them so they behave more like bookmarks except instead of creating/organizing/cleaning up bookmarks in addition to tabs I just browse/organize/close tabs. Each rabbit hole I go down gets a tab group so if I’m done with a topic I can just close the whole group.
The ability to nullify side effects :) I’ll be rich as a doctor
Hah, it also caught me off guard that they’re reusing the name wikitrubune, I signed up for the old one and found it to be really boring. It’s interesting that he’s planning to add activitypub support to this attempt, though I’ll only be interested when it’s not a “in the far future” plan and instead right around the corner.
Agreed, platforms should compete by providing better UX and features, not by abusing network effects and walling off themselves to hold communities and accounts hostage. In a way the fediverse provides a common carrier that is neutral to the users and platforms connected to it, which enables competition in the same way that guaranteeing equal access to physical internet infrastructure to new ISPs is essential to preventing ISP monopolies.
I think they mean other fediverse clients, like any mastodon instance, any calckey instance, etc. (not sure if there are more that work currently). It will just show communities as an account where all the posts in the “subreddit” look like tweets and the comments are replies. It’s pretty neat and gives us a glimpse of a world where you can comment on a reddit post / reply to a comment from a twitter account/ui.
From the related post linked by op, it’s described as just a portion of the managed instance hosting fee going back to the project devs. So if you pay them to host a lemmy instance, a small cut goes to Lemmy devs. Doesn’t seem sketchy at all. Seems to have nothing to do with monetizing the instance itself, which could be funded by voluntary donations as normal or you could probably do membership fees as some instances do. It seems this is just about giving funding to the software devs. Hopefully this encourages other managed hosting providers to also give a cut of their revenue to the software they are using for their business.