PascalSausage

@PascalSausage@beehaw.org

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PascalSausage,

It’s actually three medium-sized online platforms in a trench coat.

PascalSausage, (edited )

I’ve been dipping in and out, but frankly I can see myself leaving it behind entirely in the future. It’s really, REALLY apparent how toxic and miserable the majority of Reddit is when you’ve spent time using a platform where the main point isn’t to collect as many upvotes and awards as possible at the expense of empathy for your fellow humans.

PascalSausage,

Neat, another service that Google will inexplicably kill in anywhere from 6 months to five years time.

PascalSausage, (edited )

If it ends up that meta is able to destroy the fediverse simply by joining it, that is a design flaw on OUR end.

“Simply by joining it” is not an accurate representation of what will happen in the slightest. Meta is not some scrappy little Lemmy instance operator relying on donations to keep the lights on, they’re one of the biggest companies in the world who simply do not care about fair competition or open standards, and they have a proven track record of using that position to either buy out or destroy competition.

When Meta have so much money that they can simply outspend any other fediverse platform and become dominant that way, how is that a design flaw on our end? You can make a project as resistant to corporate overreach as you like, infrastructure to run it still costs money and there is no fediverse operator on the face of the earth that is going to be able to outspend Meta when it comes to infrastructure and R&D. How is defederation not an appropriate response when smaller instances are crippled under the inevitable load stemming from Metas users?

Corporations have been embracing, extending and extinguishing FOSS projects in the tech space for decades now, and their demise has rarely been because of a fatal flaw in the projects themselves. It’s been an intentional play by Microsoft, Google et al to ensure that there is no viable open alternative to their walled gardens.

I encourage you to read this blog post which outlines these concerns much better than I can: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

PascalSausage,

Anyone operating an instance should defederate from this shit immediately. This is exactly the kind of corporate overreach that isn’t welcome here. This will end very poorly for the fediverse I think.

PascalSausage,

Elon is a free speech absolutist, as long as you’re hurting other people and not him.

PascalSausage, (edited )

In short, no.

In detail, nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

PascalSausage,

Heated Gamer Moment

PascalSausage,

This is very 2023.

PascalSausage,

Better speeds, better access to niche content, arguably better privacy.

PascalSausage,

If you think this will change anything at Reddit, think again.

Reddit will not pay them or meet their demands. If they do reverse any of their API changes, it won't be because of this. Businesses can't been seen to be caving to ransomware groups and rightly so, as it just encourages more of these types of attacks. ALPHV is 100% trying to cash in on the current resentment towards Reddit and it shows.

We also don't know what exactly has been accessed, as neither the group nor Reddit will confirm beyond Reddit stating that no production systems or user data was accessed. It could be 80GB of cat GIFs for all we know - I'm going to need more evidence that they have something big than a screenshot of the attacker saying "trust me bro".

PascalSausage,

Reddit announced it in February shortly after it was uncovered, the group that allegedly exfil'd the data has just started making threats now.

PascalSausage,

If this is “cancel culture” the phrase has lost all meaning.

PascalSausage,

ITT: People not understanding that if they don't like the rules on one instance, they can use literally any other instance and that problem will evaporate.

PascalSausage,

Tech bros are a scourge on society.

PascalSausage,

New fear unlocked: unknowingly signing up to an instance that federates with servers hosting CP 🤢

PascalSausage,

Forgot to set my alarm, missed my bus to work, got fired as a result for being late, found a new job, started dating a colleague there, we’ve been together six years and she’s now my fiancé as of last month. I sometimes wonder where I’d be now had I set that alarm.

PascalSausage, (edited )

Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge. Still amazing to this day.

PascalSausage,

Where you draw the line is ultimately up to you. Some people are using both Reddit and fediverse platforms, some are dropping Reddit entirely, some like yourself are lurking only. There’s not a community on the fediverse for everything yet, and the ones that are may not be as active as they are on Reddit or may not be federated into your home instance. The way I see it, if there’s some information that you need that happens to be on Reddit, you shouldn’t deprive yourself of it. The unfortunate reality is that Reddit has come to replace a lot of forums and discussion boards over the years and now has a monopoly (I’d personally call it a stranglehold) on community-sourced information. We can change that, but it’s going to take a while. Do what you need to do.

PascalSausage,

Exactly. Freedom of speech doesn’t mean that anyone is obliged to allocate their server resources to you.

PascalSausage,

I feel like the people complaining haven’t actually bothered reading about what Beehaw is for and the ethos of the administrators. It’s literally all right there in the sidebar, I read it before I made my account. This is completely in line with that. It’s such a nothing burger. You’re not being cEnSoReD because one instance out of thousands has drawn a line in the sand on what it will tolerate and what it won’t.

PascalSausage,

I swear people have completely forgotten how the internet worked before Reddit. If you didn’t like a platform you could just…leave. Walk away and make your own and if enough people shared your feelings on the matter, another community would form. It happened all the time. The fact that we can feasibly do that again (even better in a lot of ways) and people still act like one volunteer-run community drawing a line in the sand over what is acceptable and what isn’t is some catastrophic blow to freedom of expression truly shows how deep the centralised social media brain worms have burrowed.

PascalSausage,

I believe now more than ever that any site that revolves around a community should be in the hands of said community and not corporations or else this eventually happens

This is how it used to be before the internet for most people basically became five websites run by enormous faceless data mines. Forums/bulletin boards/IRC channels used to be run by the community for the community and in my opinion the internet was better for it. Sure you’d get the odd flame war or power-tripping mod, but it was super common for a large portion of the community to just up sticks and start a new forum somewhere else if it became too much of a problem. Then Reddit killed most of the hobbyist forums stone dead. There’s nothing to go back to so we have to start fresh. But honestly, I’m here for it. I’m tired of being the product for a bunch of advertisers. Take me back to 2004.

PascalSausage,

They banned the RedditAlternatives sub a few days ago. If it wasn’t the case before, it probably is now. This situation must be rattling some cages at Reddit regardless of what Spez said.

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