Now that I’ve started playing around with my own lemmy instance I guess it’s fitting for possibly my last beehaw post to reflect my first.

I see discord’s business model is still burning cash trying to be the next slack steam zoom reddit patreon

🤷 try asking on the peertube forum I guess

I hope this is the case. As much as I tempted to shrug off the possibility of losing my largely disused google accounts I can never be certain I will never need to recover some old account with gmail or google authenticator that I hadn’t deemed worth the effort to port into keepass.

Servers do not “follow” servers. Servers may allow federation with other servers (utilizing either white or black listing based on specific configuration) but do not make requests to a server unless they have a user who has followed a user on that server.

The word “user” here can refer to several different types of entities including your user account, a peertube channel or a lemmy community.

If you follow a peertube channel then it should show up in your timeline provided that your filter settings are not excluding it, say for instance by viewing the local only timeline.

This is my layman understanding at least from social osmosis but I have never read the activity pub specs.

Zuckerberg frequently talks about the “pivot to mobile” which is the successful big bet that he is clearly determined to recreate the conditions of. The article calls VR his idea of the next frontier but I think what he really is looking for is the next gold rush. Zuckerberg didn’t give marching orders but the only reason anyone was willing to walk out into the desert was because someone with a high profile was saying there’s gold out there.

Meta was intended to be a platform on which the objectionable stuff would be built or as the saying goes in a gold rush sell pickaxes. But in a wasteland the more apt metaphor is the one selling weapons while considering themself above the fray.

It is true that social media reflects our own society. However social media is much more than a mirror, it is both an engine that actively shapes society molding it into a more profitable one and itself a product of that society which already was increasingly atomized and profit driven.

It’s not enough to just ignore or silo the indecent, we have to build our own engine that encourages people to engage positively. Commercial social media is fundamentally incapable of this as it conflicts with their profit driven motive. We can’t blame people for getting on the train to the wasteland, we need to build the train to utopia and convince people to get on it.

Scan QR for price is the same as “call for quote”… if you feel the need to conceal your prices then they are obviously not good, I won’t waste my time confirming the obvious and simply go elsewhere.

Spy agencies have a long history of funding projects through proxies, both government and private, so it’s probably nearly impossible to prove the negative here. The positive remains unproven until there is a leak or declassification.

I think a c/documentaries would be a more specific fit for this video

If you exceed 100 asshole units then you will be autobanned by one of the cyborg mods.

If you are using DuckDuckGo then you are using Bing.

AP does push the data load onto volunteers (the operators of servers) but those volunteers gain some autonomy in doing so. The important part of that quoted segment is that bluesky has distributed the costs but not the authority, in other words taxation without representation.