blazarious Now • 88%
Hm ja.. veganes Huhn gibt‘s nicht. Ich nenne das Zeug mittlerweile einfach Erbsen-Fleisch, Weizen-Fleisch, Soja-Fleisch, oder was auch immer die Basis ist. Ist irgendwie akkurater.
Vegane Wurst gibt’s aber! Ist ja nur die Form, nicht das Fleisch.
blazarious Now • 100%
There was a time when the typical redditor was a geek and weirdo 😅
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I see. But won’t it be more like Microblogging and not have any communities like Lemmy? I guess we’ll have to see…
blazarious Now • 100%
That's a fair point.
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Entirely possible, yes.
blazarious Now • 100%
Okay, if it'll never enable federation then all our discussions are obsolete!
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And how will this extinguish the fediverse? We'll still all be here, won't we?
blazarious Now • 87%
More people isn't always good. But imagine some organizations and journalists that for whatever reason still are on Twitter can now be persuaded to sign up to Threads. Well, now they're in the fediverse.
And if the content from Threads is overwhelmingly bad we can always defederate and the fediverse still isn't destroyed.
So, how do I picture the extinguish part?
…or how do you all picture the endgame of Meta's EEE campaign? All I see right now is a 10x increase of people in the fediverse and while this may be challenging, isn't it ultimately a good thing?
blazarious Now • 100%
Yes, people are panicking because Meta is coming for us. They’re taking two opportunities with one strike:
- fill the void that Twitter is starting to create
- profit from the buzz around the fediverse
At the end of the day, more people in the fediverse is a win in my book. And if it becomes a problem there’s always defederation as a last resort.
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Will people come?
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yeah, that's kind of an issue. Many communities exist more than once on multiple instances. Then again, this can also be a benefit. Maybe one of them isn't to your liking -> choose another one. Or one of them goes down -> there's a backup.
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I mean, are companies really paying attention to user needs? Lol
Look, the user needs to see stuff that keeps them engaged. That keeps them coming back for more. Algos are designed to achieve exactly that. Your self chosen bubble of followings and interests may not be optimized for engagement and addiction.
No, the companies don't pay attention to user needs, they pay attention to the bottom line.
blazarious Now • 100%
sometimes I miss giving awards like on Reddit...
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well, that's going to change as soon as Threads will be available for federation. Then you can use Mastodon and be in direct contact with all the folks from the Meta-verse.
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It would still use the API. Doesn’t matter if it’s a native app or a PWA.
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How is this legally binding? I still remember when people posted similar stuff all over Facebook. It means nothing.
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I like this answer. Thanks!
blazarious Now • 97%
How do you feel about people joking about and using 404 far off from HTTP?
Also: yay, AMAs have finally arrived. Who’s gonna verify your identity, though?
Because I just realized the app I’m using doesn’t let me set the language.
Where did the Flutter crowd move on to? Are they all still on Reddit or did they go to Discord?
I've been setting up my own instance and I ran into issues with pictrs. I have it running with an S3 backend, so no filesystem involved there, but I just learned it uses sled as an internal key-value store. I suppose we need to persist that sled data somehow? How do you all handle this? Any isights appreciated.