I already know of one admin of a very large Mastodon instance who’s already stated they’re not going to defed and are adopting a ‘wait and see’ approach.
Glib reply aside (sorry), in my opinion, any commercially owned entity has one sole reason for its existence - profit. And in the name of pursuing that, they’ll do literally anything to achieve it. I don’t see that as a healthy thing for the fediverse.
Well, I’m not sure it’s anything as nefarious as that. I don’t think instance admins are hoping for a big payout from Zuck. BUt the fact that that idea exists as a possibility is both saddening and would be an impossibility with the fediverse as it is right now.
If they respect your unsubscribe request, for sure.
The fact is though, you could block all emails originating from, say, GMail. You could even pre-emptively do it. Those kind of tools don’t really exist across the entirety of the Fediverse on a per-user basis - yet.
But what’s the best way to prevent corporate spam? Don’t use their services. Don’t allow them to access your details.
You might need to re-read my post. I don’t believe I said Threads was going to EEE Lemmy. I referred (repeatedly) to ActivityPub. So, it’s a bit misleading to say I’m inciting a pitchfork mob.
You’re right to say Mastodon and Lemmy don’t operate seamlessly, but Mastodon users can already follow and post to Lemmy Communities. They see Communities as just another User. And the more fediverse tools develop, I’m sure this will only strengthen.
I’m also not saying ‘corporations bad’. I’m saying ‘corporations are unnecessary for the fediverse to exist and probably will do bad things’.
I see it more as a balance of probabilities thing. Given Meta do EEE things, given they openly want all your private data, given the social media they’ve created so far is considered harmful to lots of people and given all they really want is to turn a profit, are they more likely to try and EEE ActivityPub or leave it alone and co-exist peacefully?
Maybe the correct stance is for instance admins to turn the wait and see approach on its head. Given the above, defederate now then wait and see if Threads behaves itself. If it does, then federate.
OK, well, I’m not. The most I’ll do is start an account elsewhere. There’s not really a lot I can do about what other people say. All I can do is respond to comments that are in turn commenting on what I did say.
Noting wrong with hoping your software is successful - which to me, it is already - but when the cost outweighs the benefits, as it does in my opinion, that’s a price too high.
Because I live the life of an international rock star, this weekend will be spent setting up and configuring a VPS that I personally won’t be benefitting from in any way.
Best elevenses snack is clearly a Tunnocks tea cake.
I’m having trouble logging in. The app says my password is incorrect but its definitely not - I logged out and then back in to lemmy.world website to double check.
I’m definitely setting the instance to lemmy.world (which is running a version above 0.18) and I’ve tried using my username and then email and I’ve cleared all browser stored data for the alexandrite.app domain - still keeps refusing my password :/
Browser is Firefox 115.0 if that makes a difference.
The way I’ve coded such things is just to count the length of the string in the field and then do an if() to test if’s greater than or less than a specific length. I’m surprised Lemmy doesn’t do that.
Thanks are due to you, not me, for helping me figure this out :)
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Just abstract it in your mind - Lemmy is software. Microsoft Word is software. Mastodon is software. Photoshop is software.
You can install copies of all of these pieces of software on different machines. Now just imagine if all the various copies (instances) of MS Word installed on peoples PC’s around the world were able to talk to each other. And so were all the copies of Photoshop. And then further imagine that all the copies of Word were also able to talk to all the copies of Photoshop.
That’s all the fediverse is. Multiple copies of the same software able to talk to each other and also able to talk to multiple copies of different software.
Have a look here, put a tick in the ‘ActivityPub’ protocol tickbox and you’ll see the software that can (theoretically) talk to each other.
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What are these called where you are? (i.imgur.com)
From Fife so these are rolls. Roll on sausage, roll on bacon etc. Heard them called different things in different parts of UK.
Blackbraid - Moss Covered Bones on the Altar of the Moon (Native American Black Metal) (www.youtube.com)
New album is released today. It’s a banger.
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