Same happened to X and they’re still using it. Once you a billionaire you’re above stupid laws like copyright or trademark.

While jumping and running on scene you want something sturdy not a whimpy 3.5mm jack.

“We were treated like cattle, they even wrote numbers on our hands,”

Hey, at least they didn’t tattoo the numbers in.

They don’t care about you but yes they would probably go after a newspaper and sue them for copyright infringement.

As far as I remember it’s part of Xitters Terms and Conditions that if you want to show a tweet you need to embed it, otherwise you’re stealing it.

And for Xitter it’s great, they still can change or delete it, they run javascript on the news page to get all your information, etc.

Touche

My first child was born in February.

Alternative would be that defederation happens on user- not admin level, which we’re getting closer to with 0.19 where users can block instances and don’t need to rely on the admin. This hopefully will lower the need for admins to defederate so many instances them selves.

I think most of the problems you mention I’m mitigating by hosting my own instance. And that makes me to see lemmy as a set of forums instead of a reddit alternative like you propose.

Reddit cannot rely on other instances to provide content for its users. As such, it hosts all its content in a single, general-purpose instance.

I would rewrite the second sentence into “As such, content it doesn’t like is not possible to be hosted on their single, general-purpose instance.”

People who code in Rust would do an amazing job if they focused on instance creation and management.

Instance creation and management does not require coding skills. It’s a very different skill set, one of system administration and web hosting.

Your feed depends on which instances yours is federated with

I think it’s the other way around, your feed depends on which instances yours is not defederated with. You can always kick in the federation with an instance by subscribing to their communities and then see all of those.

Interface developers should expect users to have 2+ accounts

That is just a ugly workaround, I hope we can come up with something better.

I like the people I already know. I don’t like the people I don’t know yet.

That is exactle what I wrote I’m not sure why you cut the quote just before I say that those people should use whatever Spotify gives them.

And Apple podcast, AntennaPod and all the other podcast catchers do exactly that they use the RSS feed.

I really don’t get the sentiment of that comment.

If I had so much money allocated in China I wouldn’t find any evidence either.

People who use Spotify for Podcasts already sold their soul to that company they might as well just use whatever Spotify wants them to use.

Everyone else can just use one of the podcast apps which just download the podcast from the podcast website. This includes Apple’s Podcast app or if you’re on Android I’d use AntennaPod which is packed with great features.

Here in Korea there are some but not very many. I guess you could squish quite many in here. The question is only who will go there to buy something? I haven’t been to McDonalds for years. It’s good at night when nothing else is open but if I can choose then I’ll probable choose something else.

But we have a German saying “Daheim sterben die Leut’.” which means "People die at home.

Probably, but we know that this is only a hypothetical question because in reality this will never happen.

I also didn’t quite expect it to stick around for that long with so many people. It’s my main new source actually (I have some additional but anyway). I kind of switched from Mastodon to Lemmy when it comes to consumption of social media.

Have you seen the movie WALL-E? The people on the space-ship they’re consuming engaging content all day long, nobody is creating anything anymore, so all this must been created by the AI. I’m just trying to say that it’s not a novel idea. Writers and artists have been imagining this future for ourselves for a long time.

I’m a programmer, we’ve been advocating and working on replacing ourselves with scripts since the 50ies.