Banana_man

Banana_man, 27 days ago

My guy Palestine is occupied since 1948 by Israel who, usually, “only” did sporadic bombings here and there. Now there’s an active war with some 35k dead and Israeli forces preparing to invade Rafah which has an encampment of unthinkable amounts of refugees. There’s a genocide going on right now. This kind of behaviour is encouraged, not ignored. Their ranks look bad enough committing genocide, it isn’t a few “bad apples”.

Banana_man, 27 days ago

And then throw bombs in the basement lol

Banana_man, 4 months ago

I found simple gallery though. It even showed me that I had it installed as it should.

Banana_man, 4 months ago

I’m not sure, it seems others can’t find it either. My own simple gallery works fine and without the new stuff everyone is complaining about here (I got it from f droid, so that’s why). Maybe it’s because it can’t take down the page for a downloaded app?

Banana_man, 4 months ago

I suppose we shall never know. F droid and all apps are up to date for me, so it’s not that… I am not tech savvy enough to find out lol.

Banana_man, 5 months ago

If they didn’t why would they develop tools to federate? It’s obvious that the threads project was sped up significantly following musk’s obliteration of Twitter, so they wouldn’t go out of their way to implement such a feature if they didn’t have a very specific reason for it.

A company’s goal is maximization of profit, so don’t assume they intend anything else. The activitypub userbase is too small to be a significant addition to their userbase but in this way they can destroy it before it escapes their control. They don’t take risks. Mastodon could seriously compete with threads and it’s gaining popularity. If one more big boom happens it might be too late to stop the fediverse from competing with meta in the most cost efficient way possible. Do not be lured in by the false sense of security, meta wants us to help maximize their profit. We aren’t doing that right now so Meta wants to stop us (or limit us, whatever they deem more profitable)

Banana_man, 5 months ago

Freedom is the goal with the fediverse, so I’d prefer it stays niche than become like reddit. I used reddit and now sadly Instagram too and the users can’t be compared to Lemmy. Instagram is obscenely toxic, I will never doomscroll there again it was worse than reddit, which was also still pretty bad.

However what I really can’t stand is the slow restrictions, the watering down of content to the point where it’s insufferably bland. I came here to escape that. Post whatever the hell I want to post and browse whatever the hell other people felt like posting. The sincerity of everything is what makes the fediverse special for me.

Banana_man, 5 months ago

Nothing good will come of federating with meta, the fediverse should simply stay out of their reach and realize whatever potential it may have.

I think there might be another way to hurt it though that this article doesn’t seem to mention. Funnily enough, it’s also a theme of an asterix and obelix comic book, which the introduction referenced. This way would be monetization. Threads might try to “help” the fediverse by feeding the bigger instances money, therefore the hosts of the instances would be more open to negotiations with meta and accepting of their policies.

I will compare this to YouTube which started paying all it’s big creators until they became dependent on the platform for a living and then started slowly implementing more and more rules that limit their freedom of expression. Remember how much PewDiePie used to swear in his getting over it videos? In another “pew news” or whatever it was called video I happened to watch he directly mentioned that he censors himself because he isn’t going to put his job on the line just to say “fuck”. Profit invites creators to comply with YouTube’s regulations even if they aren’t enforced violently always.

The same pattern was used in the asterix comic I mention above. Ceasar decides to open a building complex almost next to the problematic for him village and so the residents flood the markets and are shocked at the low prices compared to Rome. As a result, the villagers start increasing prices and advertising their goods and services, neglecting their previous morals and ethos. In the end, however, the Romans lose again after (panoramix, I think?) makes them realize how much separation this has caused them, living only for their business. As a result they kick the Romans out of their village, once again united, and Caesar’s plans fail.

I think both these stories could serve as a potential warning to anyone who might consider selling themselves out if meta adopts such a policy.

Banana_man, 5 months ago

It is as you say, but look at the difference. Allowing metaverse to grow is only going to hurt them, while the potential profits from the metaverse could be massive. They deemed it a risk worth taking because of the potential success. Meta won’t leave the fate of lemmy up to chance, because they decided we are not very likely to disappear in time.

Banana_man, 5 months ago

m.youtube.com/watch?v=UuLq0kkr0zQ

Banana_man, 4 months ago

commenting for mod

Banana_man, 4 months ago

now i see there kinda already is a mod? How does this work, I tried posting a meme from Lemmy Connect and it didn’t let me, but it does from PC?

Banana_man, 6 months ago

I feel like I lose myself if I feel good and do things I regret. I don’t like the person I am when I’m feeling good so I choose not to feel good at all.

Banana_man, 6 months ago

That’s sweet of you, thank you. It’s kind of like I get drunk on the emotion and become more like the person I was before working on myself. More selfish, more insensitive, etc. I want to feel good about things but I don’t want to lose myself doing it. It feels degrading, both in the moment and also after. I become able to see myself do stupid things but can’t interfere no matter how I feel inside.

Banana_man, 6 months ago

Το επόμενο μεγάλο ΟΧΙ θα απευθύνεται στην Microsoft >:)

Banana_man, 6 months ago

Thanks I can’t believe I forgot