Because you disagree with them, they’re not credible?

A BBC documentary here demonstrates some evidence of what is shown and what occurs is two different things:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmId2ZP3h0c

There is evidence that isn’t insinuations and it isn’t American.

There was a really good BBC documentary on this 6 years ago which takes a look in one of the facilities from both and official visit and visiting unannounced. Also using satellite footage to demonstrate changes made prior to journalist visits…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmId2ZP3h0c

High recommend watching it.

Healthy and diverse.

That bacon is positively carbon… Gone past the point of crispy (and I love crispy bacon).

You do realise they only run one server? All the others will be free of their direct influence.

Remember, they built Cassette Beasts in Godot. If anyone has a view on how to make a solid game in Godot, it’s them. Trying to push them to sell an engine they know better than either of us is weird. They walked the walk.

It’s amazing how France and Germany seem to have the same view after US has been pushing the nuclear path. Feels like some play book is being acted out.

Sure, Manjaro is known to break on updates. OpenSuse TW is stable AF. Manjaro is a joke compared to most distros though.

What? Is this a positive step by large companies?

The cynic in me thinks they’ll push to legislate for this so Indies cannot compete and they make more money from MTX hell.

If you’re on xitter, most users are toxic and toxicity is incentivised because engagement is money.

If prioritising your mental health, taking a break from ones like X and Facebook help.

Blocking negative content and hope it becomes wholesome can be exhausting and fruitless as it will reccomend it, regardless.

I personally found regularly scrubbing contacts that are not meaningful until you can take breaks more and more helps. Eventually, I refused to allow it my time or to cost my mental health so no longer use it. For me, the cost was greater than the benefit.

Yes. You corrected a dyslexic. Well done.

That is more down to poor marketing. Here on Lemmy or reddit there are big open source communities where you can extol the values of it.

I never went with a software project from random scrolling. It has no value to me if it doesn’t meet a need I have right now.

No contributor is going to be good that doesn’t use it.

Why would it be? Software is good based on it’s use and recommendations from real folk, not *s. Many project not on github

Minecraft is one of the biggest games on the planet. Very popular with the young. Not what many would consider beautiful.

That is quite a mixed bag response. Leaves me between they won’t do nothing, and they might do something.

I mean, they can easily flood the ratings and sure All is just Threads content, then you’re not getting involved in Lemmy/Mastodon content, you’re just talking and engaging on content sustaining Threads and your comments are probably helping engagement next to adverts displayed to users.

It isn’t a good proposition, at all.

Meta doesn’t do anything that doesn’t benefit their bottom line, especially for their ad business.

I mean, the last point is weird. They’d never say that, and do not care about the illusion of being open.

Point 1 is true.

Point 2, what makes you think federation will make millions of users want to move away, or even know folk are on another service. They’ll probably censor the word lemmy and every lemmy address to avoid folk advertising away. The fediverse will just be filled with nonsense data and they’ll pull the stuff that helps their platforms and keeps people hooked on the teet. Without that data, they may not be at critical mass to sustain Threads and it might eventually die. With that and Twitter going to pot, avoiding federation actually helps Mastodon as it provides a distinguishable separate entity that has reached critical mass and has significant good will with the user base that motivates them to keep sharing content.

world won’t defederate from the right without a long drawn out process (see Exploding Heads for example). However, if someone posts “Karl Marx is great” or “Communism makes sense” or “capitalism is bad”, you’ll probably see a defederation before the enter key is hit. (Hexbear).

lemm.ee or lemmy.ml are where it’s at. I don’t think it’s great for power or userbase to be focussed on one instance. lemm.ee has 0.19 and world doesn’t despite their junior and senior infrastructure folk from their full 7 week interview process for volunteer positions.

I think most here have come here to avoid big tech companies. Reddit has become bad and beyond the pale. Facebook, and Meta companies are not good for privacy, and many wouldn’t like to promote them or have their content building those platforms up. Eventually, you become the thing you hate.