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A very active britposter

I think because Emperor has vanished, might be a factor

Feddit.UK is kinda nice as there’s the little british bubble in Local

I think it’ll be cool for lemmy communities as well to create an aggregate of multiple communities

What’s a better alternative that offer good ddos protection and tunnels

The most they can do is add a load of more users to the fediverse then take them away again. For them to successfully EEE the fediverse, it would require convincing existing fediverse users to switch to threads. I cannot see that happening on here on any noticeable scale.

If anything, Bluesky is the bigger threat as it touts itself as “decentralised” in order to gain users who would have otherwise gone to Mastodon, then easily pull the plug.

My unpopular opinion is that we should federate with threads. “Embrace extend extinguish” would depend on existing fediverse users migrating to threads. Quite frankly, I don’t see that happening. In fact, if there’s no federation, there’s more incentive to use threads to have a presence.

Embrace extend extinguish, if done on the fediverse, may cause an uptick in signups on other instances, and when extinguished, a portion of those users would leave.

With the Google Chat / XMPP thing, people were using Google Chat, had xmpp support, it was cool, then google pulled the rug so users seemingly dropped.

I don’t think Meta has enough goodwill at all to even convince it’s own users to return to it’s platforms these days. I think Bluesky is more of a risk as it claims to be decentralised to rope people in, but isn’t.

Why would they protest and make it opt in? The whole point of the fediverse is that your posts are completely public. Literally anyone and anything can scrape it, your server would hand it to them on a silver platter. That’s the point.

What’s wrong with wordpress

What slop are you posting. And your description sounds AI

I am

Sky ad technology can be developed out of the good of someone’s heart. Maybe to show emergency alerts quickly. Disaster warnings. But then, it gets in the wrong hands.

We could say similar stuff about the internet. I don’t think Tim Berner’s Lee had bad intentions when founding the World Wide Web. It’s a double edged sword. Same has happened with a lot. I even believe that God’s sacrifice on the cross- an act of perfect love for all humanity- has been misused to control, manipulate and abuse. The guy who created dynamite wanted it to be used for safer mining practices, not a weapon. Many things we make as humans seems to be invented for good, but used for evil

Internet advertising wasn’t initially that bad either. People would pay to have a button for their site to appear on another page. Or a video to play on a streaming site. Then someone thinks “let’s actually make more relevant ads appear. This video is about videogames, let’s show a videogame ad.” Then: “We can see what videos this user likes, so we can get an idea that they like videogames, so let’s show them videogame ads, even on other videos”. And it eventually morphed into “We can see this user visited this videogame shop 1 month ago thanks to our other maps service. Let’s show them adverts for that shop’s sale”. It’s just crazy.

Please throw all of your computers and electronic devices into a lake and never buy one again.

Still not the technology at fault. Webapps for example are a good innovation. But it’s used for evil as well.

Not the most related, but if Instagram becomes an issue, there is an Instagram patched app which is DMs only

It’s not the technology at fault, but the advertising industry