I’d like the name to be “community feed” and “feeds” for short. Reddit was always essentially a collective rss with voting weights. In this way “subs” would still work since one subscribes to the feeds.
Ultimately it’s something the devs need to encourage though
I agree, but it takes less than 10 min and is more impactful than lemmy posts
Nuclear (+ renewables) powering walkable cities ftw.
Not even just for the climate, we’d probably cut asthma and a dozen cancer rates with the clean air.
Even with IP, there is very little stopping the big actors from developing something similar but debatable distinct, at a larger scale. By the time the lawsuit clears, they’ve wrecked your profitablity.
In fact, more often you see big companies act as patent trolls, using IP as a bludgeon to threaten smaller players who don’t have an army of lawyers. See, DMCA takedowns to suppress speech, patent trolls, and esp trademark nonsense.
Trade secrets fit your example best, but more often than not that’s something that relies on worker restrictions rather than traditional “IP”
Intellectual property is cultural theft.
I was about to say the same thing. I sort of understand it under networking, but how do I federate my music or video w ith nextcloud?
Yes, and fascism is authoritarian.
By extension, this is why I don’t think defederating with Meta is an effective strategy. Like gourmet burger restaurants refusing to be on the same block as McDonalds.
Meta will get the big names as they exit Twitter, and become borderline necessary to federate with-- assuming updates from years of state, artists, activists, etc are of any interest to people considering your instance.
This is inevitable. I think the only discussion is how we have a vibrant enough community that EEE becomes less viable.
It’s something we failed to do with email. I suspect the answer is approximate to far easier instance hosting, to increase the number of instances and make a federation whitelist unviable for Meta
Not unique, but uniquely central. Fascism cannot exist without a persecuted outgroup. In other contexts, genocide is generally a state consolidating power or resources, but not the focus of these state projects.
There is no fascism without genocide. It’s an idealogical ponzi scheme which promises to an ingroup if they destroy outgroup(s).
Other forms of authoritarianism simply demand obedience, and optionally or incidentally incorporate genocidal policy to that end. But genocide is to fascism as driving is to a car, the reason for all off is components. Not a byproduct to some imagined other purpose
To what end though? This is one lemmy instance, and probably the one fediverse instance facing the highest influx of traffic.
The distinction between a square and a rectangle is important, even if you don’t like right angles and parallel sides. Fascism is a flavor of authoritarianism which is uniquely worse and focused on genocide.
I agree 90%, downvotes shouldn’t have that much weight. That said, comments which are abusive or hateful probably should have long term consequences for the user, even if they are themselves not worthy of a ban. Maybe reputation can be a “strike” for number of reported comments.
To be clear, here I’m thinking of “dogwhistle” comments which individually are plausibly fine, but in aggregate indicate this person is up to no good.
I’m not sure blocking Meta is worthwhile in the long term. Say what you will about email, you still have some degree of choice over your host. I want better for the fediverse, but that’s still a marked improvement over mainstream social media.
In the short term, Meta wants to kill Twitter by collecting all its A-level users. I think this would be good for the fediverse, these are news outlets and poltiicians and etc making posts most people want the option to see in their feed. These are also users who want no-fuss platforms with some amount of “customer service”, and mastodon.social is simply not ready to provide that.
The issues it poses to re-centralization are an inevitable threat as the Fediverse grows. Unless there is a concrete plan to build protections and this is a stop-gap effort, I’m not yet convinced it’s worthwhile.
I know I’m not alone here, but truly a Letterboxd version of bookwyrm would be amazing. Esp if it had some integrations with Jellyfin.
It’s not that straightforward. Copyright is different in that infringement is only enforced by rightsholders through litigation. That means they hato find you, sue you, and make a convincing argument that your backup is harming their market viability.
On that last point, some personal backup is unlikely to be found to be infringing. It’s more problematic if it’s something shared or done in a significant scale.