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Not the first time I’ve heard of the luddites. It doesn’t matter if you’re the workers getting replaced by automation or a cable company getting replaced by streaming television; fighting against changes in the economy and technology is an unwinnable battle. The problem with self driving cars is that they’re worse solutions for transportation than other, lower tech solutions.
So, problem solved? We don’t have factories anymore because of them?
They can track you right now without federating. These posts are all public. They can just make an account and farm information.
When I said I don’t have a horse in this race, I meant I don’t much care whether my instances federate with it or not. You’re not the first doomsayer over Threads, but I have yet to see anything that would stop this decentralized thing from allowing us to just de-federate or otherwise ignore any changes Threads makes to ActivityPub after the fact. We literally CAN not use Facebook. You may as well say Microsoft is trying to extinguish Linux, but I don’t think they could if they tried. Yes, I’m familiar with EEE, but the things these technologies are used for appear to make them inextinguishable.
I think I mentioned in the previous comment, what happens as Meta begins making contributions to the open source protocol?
Then you don’t use their version.
As people looking to run their own instances come across a Meta build due to SEO? Maybe Meta money starts getting thrown at W3C and the co-author - who knows man. At that point, are we just going to use whatever forks that get Meta’s stuff stripped out from it?
Yes? We’re already using not-their-version, without the 100M users. If it’s okay now, it’ll be okay when we decide they took it too far and can go fuck themselves.
Anyway, I don’t have a horse in this race. I have a Mastodon and Kbin account, and I don’t know if either of them plan on federating with Threads or not. It just seems like a lot of alarm over nothing. Saying that people aren’t going to want to defederate from Threads once they’re federated is the same argument people would use to say I wouldn’t leave Twitter or Reddit, and I easily left both of those.
Isn’t ActivityPub an open source protocol?
How do you buy ActivityPub?
Well, you can stick to instances that federate with Threads even if/when they misbehave then, but having the option not to is pretty great, from my perspective.
I’m a Linux user. That “fragmentation” is probably a good reason for why that hasn’t been extinguished either. So as far as I can tell, yes, I’ll enjoy the resilience that that implies without fear of it being extinguished.
I always saw that as a feature, not a bug. The feature that prevents it from being the last E.
And we’re free to move to another instance that has the access, or lack thereof, that we want.
That’s not really an issue though; or at least, I’m not yet convinced it’s one. We’re here because we don’t want to have compatibility with Reddit, and I’m on Mastodon because I don’t want to have compatibility with Twitter.
But then if other instances don’t want those features, isn’t the worst that can happen that instances just de-federate from Threads? I know the history of EEE, but I don’t see how that can even work here.
How about any option at all to buy digital movies DRM-free? Buying a “streaming copy” is not a substitute.
Yeah, that would probably level everything out, but I’m guessing that these subscription services are trying to avoid becoming the open book that Hollywood is. If you’re visibly the 4th most successful streaming service, customers might start to bandwagon.
So the solution is ad supported services, if I understood the takeaway of the article? Because that’s no solution I’m willing to participate in.
It’s restricting corporations on one charge and not another, and lowering income on one thing just puts pressure on the other to rise. It would lower a copay, and they will absolutely raise premiums to cover it, which they’ve historically done as drug prices rise. It also doesn’t do anything for the uninsured.
#4 is difficult to quantify, so it’s probably the one they feel the strongest about. I also frequently hear from people who prefer working in an office (they exist) that if you need someone, you can just walk over to their desk and ask them for help rather than trying to get a hold of them via IM. In my experience, that person is at lunch or in a conference room somewhere, so you’re leaving an IM for them anyway.
There are a lot more costs to a car besides gas and tolls that add to the cost of that trip. But even besides that, you get to take 3.5 hours of your life back doing things that you can’t do while you’re driving.
If fighting against the economy was winnable, we’d all still have cable, haha.