Someone disagreeing with you isn’t shilling.
I’m not sure why there’s so much concern about hostility being a new thing when Threads comes in. Responses like the ones you’ve replied with demonstrate the existing userbase already has a few toxic apples.
I haven’t missed the point, I simply disagree with your assertion. The advocacy to preemptively defederate from Threads is grounded in unsubstantiated FUD.
Peter Fairlie touched on this briefly in one of his videos about equipment used by satellite TV pirates in the early 2000s. If you’re interested in seeing how some of this worked in practice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JKYJLH6lGQ
Yes, but the point you’re trying to make doesn’t make sense. The content subscription model for both of these are completely different.
On Twitter (erm, I bounced shortly after the X shenanigans…) you subscribed to people and mostly saw tweets of people you follow, and the tweets they re-tweet, so it’s heavily individual-curated.
On Facebook you “subscribe” to people and groups. Because your feed is mixed between people and group posts, you’re still getting a mostly-curated feed from friends, with algorithmic posts from groups. In the last few years they started blending in posts from groups/pages you aren’t in if your feed doesn’t have much content.
Lemmy is entirely different. You only subscribe to communities. The curation is moderation style and upvotes. Individual people can guarantee their way into everyone’s feed by posting to the most active communities.
That is exactly how it works. If your users are abusing your instance, it’s on you as the instance owner to decide whether their usage is inline with your expectations as a host, or if they’re better served elsewhere.
On your second point, it’s worth calling out that a lot of folks on Lemmy today came from the Reddit API changes. These folks left a very, very active site to a network with substantially fewer users and less content, and still pales in comparison.
I think this serves as sufficient evidence to show there’s a large enough group of people who don’t care for the size/activity of a social network and participate on the principle of less-VC/Wall St funded social media.
I don’t think EEE applies here. Worst case a bunch of servers defederate Threads. If the ActivityPub protocol gets terrible influence from Meta, the protocol spec can be forked.
If, on the unlikely chance, the Lemmy devs start becoming Meta advocates and add ads in Lemmy, the software is AGPL3, it can be forked.
Look at how Linux works around corporate abuse, especially with the Red Hat nonsense. As long as enough people care, a fork is made and maintained, and users will come.
Have you actually tried using Lemmy from Mastodon or Twitter-like-focused ActivityPub server? It technically works, but through no fault of Mastodon nor Lemmy, it’s a pretty miserable experience. The feed is nearly impossible to use for communities that get frequent comments through the day.
There is a 0.00% chance Lemmy has anything to worry about. If Mastodon isn’t a tolerable client for Lemmy, Threads’ substantially worse feed management will be much more miserable and enough of a deterrent by itself.
If your users are subscribing to 10,000 accounts who spam so badly that it causes resource issues, that’s not a Threads issue, that’s an issue of who you allow to use your instance.
Adding more people would dilute some of the excessively frequent ragebait posters…
It’s like the same 2-3 dozen people.
There is no point to defederate threads.
If folks find the content on the instance I maintain interesting, I want them to join from whichever platform they feel most comfortable with. As long as they don’t cause problems, that is.
The fediverse’s worst enemy is itself. The persistent paranoia that people are out to ruin it is going to drive all the rational people away.
Many thanks to you, Nutomic, and the several folks contributing in different ways. The effort put in to fix various “papercuts”, adding features, and the prompt handling of the security issue earlier this year have been fantastic.
I especially appreciate the consideration that you folks put in to ensure it’s pretty straightforward and reliable to host. I’ve had a few hiccups here-and-there, but nothing a couple of very minor actions haven’t been able to fix.
Lemmy’s fairly-straightforward architecture has made it fairly easy to troubleshoot issues, and overall, it’s one server package I really don’t have to worry about or babysit, so thanks for a headache-free experience 😀
Agree on the janky workaround. Though according to sources for Bloomberg, the EU might not consider iMessage popular enough for the DMA, in case anyone is actually holding out hope for that.
Yeah, I’m in the US. A lot of folks I know distribute themselves over Discord, Telegram, Signal, WhatsApp, and in a few cases Viber. Most text conversations of mine are just exchanging numbers with people then immediately asking to use another service regardless of colors 😅
I could just be in a weird bubble though.
I don’t understand why there’s such a hard push for iMessage access on Android. The tinkerer in me finds this thrilling to follow, but the end-user in me is skeptical.
First, Apple being this hard-headed forces a marketplace for third party messaging apps. I don’t want to see Apple (or Google, or Facebook) be responsible for the dominant messaging platform in the US. If iMessage is on Android, the lure of being able to immediately add 50% of the country to your phone becomes compelling and gets rid of the need of third party services for a lot of people. I’d imagine this would cause Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp, Viber, etc. to shrink.
Second, as an Apple user, I don’t see the excitement about having iMessage. I have group chats with all iPhone-buddies and mixed Android/iPhone. iMessage isn’t that exciting. The apps built around it and linked in Apple’s Messages app are the actual useful parts of it – Facetime to video chat and Find My to continuously show your friends on a map (great for traveling!). Maybe the games are silly fun from time to time?
I think the RCS adoption is what’ll solve a lot of issues that Beeper is wanting to solve here. Apple is supposedly working with the GSMA to create an E2E standard (vs. relying on Vibe’s proprietary encryption extension), we should be able to exchange higher quality media, and (I think) cross-platform interactivity around messages improves significantly.
The hand movements bothered me too. I think they’re just good enough where someone could try to justify it by claiming they’re very awkward/inexperienced anchors though.
I’m still grappling with the insane path it must have taken to get to this point .
The repair shop became so frustrated about not being able to figure out why the repairs weren’t working to the point they sought out a whitehat hacking group.
That seems very “we’ve tried literally everything and are completely out of options”
Tech demos being scripted is something I’ve come to expect, but for Google to practically lie about their capabilities is alarming. After all, they’re passing off a video of “here’s where we are” that’s really “this is what we want to get to”. Not really confidence inspiring.
Their research ended up as the groundwork for what’d become the foundation of a lot of other AI services, so it’s obvious Google has the talent to pull this off. I can understand the rush to play catch-up since everyone else was questioning Google’s ability to deliver AI in a meaningful way publicly, but instead of leaving me with the impression that they’re on track to catch up, this leads me to think they’re much further behind than I previously thought.
OpenAI has a lot of momentum right now, they showed an impressive product that’s become a household name in under a year. Even if OpenAI doesn’t show any improvements on their AI work, I think they can comfortably rest knowing that one of the wealthiest companies is having a difficult time catching up to their “wow” factor.
I’m glad to hear your community raised this up and that you’re receptive about the feedback. I’ve subscribed and will give it a shot!
I make great use of filters on Mastodon and it’s improved my experience tremendously for much of the same reasons over there. On Lemmy I use Voyager so it is an option.
I’m hesitant to do keyword filtering because I also host an instance, and I’m concerned that I’d miss something that needs to be handled. I didn’t really care so much about wanting to keep an eye on stuff until people were posting malicious content affecting other servers a few months ago.
SiriusXM’s abuse of customers aside, it does have it’s uses. It’s decent for areas with no cell service and when you don’t want to deal with terrestrial radio, or if your carrier limits your data and you drive a lot.
Consider 2006-2015. The earlier range of years were kind of terrible for reliable/fast cell service. The later set of years were terrible because cell carriers limited how much data you can consume in a month.
“Meh” bitrate beats out empty silence.