Like all techbros it is an affectation to cultivate a certain sort of appearance. A type of mad faux intellectualism.

You literally have to be a tryhard to do all lowecase on a phone, for example.

Further, they’re hosted in Germany, so they must still follow German law and court requests.

SimpleX is taking a lot of venture capital money which makes it just slightly suspect, imho. Those guys usually want a return of some kind on their investment. I simply don’t trust the motives of technocrats like Jack Dorsey.

The Matrix Foundation, on the other hand, seems a lot more democratic in governance and stewardship of the protocol.

Blahaj.zone runs on AWS not Cloudflare.

Blahaj.zone is a smaller instance with less than 3000 users.

There is no character limit that I see.

At least on lemmy.blahaj.zone Ada has blocked nsfw instances, I assume she did the same on blahaj.zone. EDIT: I just double checked and for sure a lot of NSFW instances are blocked by blahaj.zone.

Finally, as the instance for transfolk, it has never at any point federated with Threads

I understand. In death, members of Lemmy do have a name. His name is Lemmy.

Thankfully someone invented xmpp omemo way back in the day.

Dude, Migicovsky fucked it up once and already wants back in? He sold the Pebble company and fucked almost all the workers on the way out. They were promised their jobs, that their jobs would be part of the deal. At the last minute they find out, nope, Migicovsky signed off on the deal that left them all without jobs. He walked away with a fat stack of cash.

Then the idiot spun up Beeper and hacked his way into the iMessage system with a workaround which Apple them promptly blocked within a few days. People were paying for this service. What was Migicovsky’s plan? None, he gave up after Apple blocked them once.

Further, Beeper is just a re-skinned Matrix client with the Beeper company hosting the open source bridges between services, which means they have always had some weirdly serious access to the chats they’re helping you compile all in one place. Initially you basically had to give them way too much control over your Apple account to use the iMessage stuff since they had to have a fleet of Macs for each iMessage user they were supporting.

I’m sorry. I don’t care how good it was. Don’t let Migicovsky take your money and mismanage it again.

Why do people keep giving this guy good graces when he fucked over his own devs on the way out and didn’t even have a plan on how to keep his iMessage system working for paying customers?

Please stop letting this guy fuck up and walk away with the money.

Not a historical country, per se, but I love traditional names for places.

Here’s a little song about such a thing.

I know modern versions of Lemmy have a way to import/export account settings, but I don’t think it’s a full-scale move all your followers thing.

As always, Forbes only wants to profile the most narcissistic people.

Daniel Supernault lists all his apps as developed by… Dan Supernault. Despite the fact that there’s plenty of other people’s fingers all over the Pixelfed github. Hey Dan, we can all see this. Maybe you shouldn’t take all the credit for yourself, yeah?

Further, Supernault left moderation as a backseat activity to fast growth of Pixelfed, leading to a less than stellar user experience since the moderation was weak to nonexistent.

So let’s see…

1. Thinks growth matters more than a cohesive community.

2. Labels things that involved the labor of lots of different people as though all the work was done by Daniel Supernault.

3. He literally named one of the apps after him fucking self. Sup, the WhatsApp wannabe, and I’m really skeptical of the security bona fides here. Things like Matrix, Signal, XMPP and so on already exist but Supernault wants to re-invent the wheel again.

4. Didn’t take moderation duties seriously instead focusing on explosive growth just like all the corporate apps.

I’m just waiting for number 5 to be this motherfucker pulling a Matt Mullenweg and fracturing the communities because he thinks he owns them.

Just because it’s Open Source doesn’t make it an overall good, especially when the people involved seemingly just want to use the Open Source community to launch their own careers and hope and dreams and fuck all the little people who helped. Sounds pretty corporate to me. See also: Kagi search

I think Pixelfed is beating Mastodon at that. The main instance basically had moderation as a late late afterthought and the massive influx of people and lack of moderation has made the main Pixelfed instance kind of horrible, from what I understand. @lori@hackers.town has been discussing it extensively lately.

Also, beyond bots, we have whole ass crpytoscam instances like realbitcoin.cash where suspiciously almost all of the accounts are from that instance, all created their accounts on the same day, and all commented on the same big thread on the same day.

FOSS developers are going to have to start developing roadblocks to this kind of behavior.

It doesn’t really matter if you’re not willing to leave, because it would hurt too much to lose 50,000 followers, or 12,000 likes, or because FOMO has gotten the best of you. Those who have the least to lose will be the first to make the move. But this change will affect you too, slowly. This social mass will, little by little, become influential… and will end up dismembering these social markers that mean so much to you. Accounts with 150,000 followers will notice that part of their audience has left, and that the remaining numbers have become nothing more than indicators of a distant past.

Beautifully stated. Folks like us made the jump because our internet experience was never about “followers.” For one, it always sounded like being fucking stalked, for two I actually like my privacy, and for three, I’m just some random fucking idiot anyway, folks really shouldn’t be listening to every little thing I have to say. Don’t follow me unless you want to be disappointed.

Dorsey is a massive dick but he was absolutely correct that Bluesky isn’t actually very decentralized and was making similar mistakes as Twitter. He and I just massively disagree as to what those “similar mistakes” were. I think the mistakes they are making are about competent moderation, including growing too fast and too large for competent moderation, Dorsey hated that there was moderation at all.

Those who read history are doomed to watch those who don’t read history repeat it.

Sounds like the management at Tiktok see it as politically expedient to fluff Trump to be able to continue to have access to the US market.

I think they mean “beaten badly” as in “lost control of all three branches of government” not so much “Trump landslide vote.”

The person you responded to even said “Dems got beaten pretty bad” not “Harris got beaten pretty bad.”

By the metric of losing the house, losing the senate, losing the judiciary, and losing the presidency is a pretty deep blow.

Why are the journalist bending over to Musk?

Because performative protest like wearing pussy hats isn’t actually as effective as general strikes or direct action.

The McResistance fades because that’s all it ever was.

The first time I took mushrooms it had been after reading about this kind of thing for about a week.

I recall reading about a man who was effectively blind but his eyes worked fine. What didn’t work fine was the part of his brain that interpreted what his eyes saw. So he just saw smeary streaks of light.

It’s kind of like Linux without its V4L2 system for interpreting video capture devices. It can’t actually see video without it.

Yeah Twin Pines Ma— I mean Lone Pine Mall.

100%, and it stars Matthew Lillard right after he came out of doing Hackers and Scream. It’s a classic and very heartfelt.