That is still somewhat related to what WhatsApp already does.
Wasn't the concensus that there is absolutely no market for a one-superapp-that-does-it-all app in the US (or Europe for that matter), as otherwise it would already have existed by now?
@tuxdevices Any idea if thie product is CE certified?
I do not want to risk buying something where, when it arrives in Europe, it gets destroyed by customs because the manufactorer has forgotten to do certification.
Found a neat closeup drum cam of Chika drumming during Hanabie's Denver show. I usually like watching the drummer in any live show, but Chika was really far to the back of the stage at NYC. (Was able to get a good view of Matsuri's guitar playing though!) It's cool to get a really close up view of Chika rocking out from this angle! :AquaYeah:
@CavoriteLizard Does somebody know what happened to their former drummer? (Sae).
I know she left for personal reasons (which is non of our business), but does somebody know what happened to her?
Does she still play drums?
Note, I do not want to take anything from Chika as a drummer. She is a very cool drummer too! (as the video shows 😆 )
@CavoriteLizard, good news. 👍
Interesting band that "CODE OF ZERO" ..
a bit strange. In the last video on their youtube page, it looks like an all-female band, but in the live videos of 5 months, only the singer is female.
???
The #RedditMigration isn’t about any app being better than Reddit. It’s about a company that’s grown on the backs of volunteer labour now claiming ownership of that labour.
Reddit didn’t write those posts, draw those illustrations, make those videos. We did.
And Reddit sure as hell didn’t create those communities, nurture them, and moderate them. We did.
I agree with tech writers who say that the average person just “wants their memes”. But Reddit never made those memes. We did.
Content might be king. But who makes content? We do.
I have no doubt that the average person just wants content. But while we might be providing content for free, we’re not dancing monkeys. Who decides why content is made, how it’s made, and where it exists? We do.
The Fediverse doesn’t exist merely as an engine for content. It exists so that people can share what they love.
Why are people coming to the Fediverse specifically? Because we rightfully see ActivityPub as insurance for our content – which, again, is made by and for us.
Not Reddit. Not Big Social. Us.
If I’m giving my content away for free, then so long as it is federated, no one company can own it – putting up gates, demanding payment for my work. Instead, my work is out there, living on 24,000 nodes that presently exist.
Android Authority might dismiss this as “suffering the same fate” – what fate they perceive, I don’t know. But to me, the true “suffering” is when a company like Reddit claims ownership of my work, locking 3rd party developers out from API access.
For this reason, I’m locking Reddit out from my work.
Perhaps the author of this post, Dhruv Bhutani, doesn’t consider that he’s writing for a, well, blog. And that this blog exists on its own domain, with its own design, as its own property. He could have written this entire post on Reddit, but he didn’t.
Why? I suspect it’s because he believes his work has value, and Reddit simply doesn’t give him what he believes is his worth.
Same deal with me. I’m not looking to get paid for my work on Reddit. I do it for fun – always have. But if I’m doing something for fun, it’s still going to be on my terms.
Not all of us creatives are willing to be a cog in Big Social’s machine. That’s why I’m here on the Fediverse right now. I don’t give a damn whether the average person just wants memes. I create for me.
So yeah, Lemmy and Kbin suck. I can live with that – they will both improve. And I have no doubt that, with time, they might prove to be better than Reddit.
But this isn’t about how good Lemmy or Kbin are. Nor is this about the insatiable appetite for memes.
This is about my need to create on my terms – and I’m not alone here.
@atomicpoet @fediversenews The question is, do we want the millions of reddit-users now all migrate to Lemmy / kbin / <any other fediverse software>?
I don't think so. Both Lemmy and kbin are singles developer projects. Give them time to grow, taking in new users bit by bit every time something happens at reddit. That way, the projects have time to become more robust, more secure and so on.
This event now is a good first step to get Lemmy/kbin in the public eye. After that let time do its work.
#ActivityPub is super cool once you see it in action.
For instance, you can visit the new StarTrek lemmy server here: https://startrek.website/c/startrek. Looks like a reddit sub with posts, threaded comments, upvotes, &c.
OR you can follow the same server on Mastodon @startrek.
Every thread and comment shows up as a boosted post.
Cool, right? Now, say you find a comment that you want to reply to. Post through your favorite Mastodon app, and that feeds right back to the thread on the #Lemmy server! 🤯
@jupiter_rowland @fediversenews Hi all, in light of what happened earlier this week, we do have to keep in mind that groups (like guppe groups) are the perfect tool for a spammer to increase his/her reach with very little effort.
Perhaps, before implementing groups, we should first look at automated spam-detection / removal systems. If this isn't done, we risk that the groups will be become vehicles for spammers, which will probably completely kill of the service.
@youronlyone@jupiter_rowland@fediversenews Hi all!
Well, in the end, where and how this gets implemented, who has to do the work, and if you put the workload at the side of human moderators or some automated tools, that is all secondary.
The only point I wanted to make is that the fediverse has grown quite fast in the last year, which starts to make it an interested target for spammers; and that unfiltered "multiplication engines" are the perfect tool for that.
Why not implement the spam detection engine for activitypub as an independent software-module that can be placed in front of any fediverse server, no matter what software the instance is running?
This does probably require a standardized API between the fediverse instance software and the spam-detection module so that these two can work together.