confusingly the article leaves out what normal altstore does: install any iOS app provided its file and a connection to a computer (while installing) for seven days

Now, alongside the additional funding, AltStore is launching its own Mastodon server, running on the ActivityPub protocol, where users will be able to view app updates and new information from the sources they follow. Developers can opt in to have their app updates published to the new server.

yeah, but seeing the private jet meme made me think of how only one of them i’ve seen was not about swift

i agree that this is a problem but why is it always taylor swift that comes up when discussing private jets?

wasn’t that “Anti-Hero” from Midnights (2022), not anything from Reputation (2017), the one with “Look What You Made Me Do”? and imo the 2017 album was justified given the massive defamation she suffered from Kanye West, which doesn’t make the things she’s done in the past 5 years better but still more than justifies Reputation for me

I find it believable. Cigarette embers are not unlike the firework embers that were ruled out in part due to too much transit time and cooling.

As an editor, based on the difference she made in community–WMF dynamics, I would say that Iskander is really useful.

the bulk of the work is crowdsourced

No. The WMF does not work on Wikipedia’s content. They focus on fundraising, hosting, software, legal, and the rare cross-wiki initiative.

The tension has decreased a ton with the CEO-ship of Iskander, with many long-requested features being delivered

I think the answer has changed a bit since they got a much better CEO who’s doing a lot more communication and engagement with the community, which dictates what Wikipedia looks like

I was arguing against “Mbin is not quite like anything else”. assuming Lemmy is a copy of Reddit, Mbin is a copy of (Reddit + Twitter). to be more precise I can also say it’s just Lemmy + Mastodon.

technically it’s not part of any definition of “social media”, but it’s so ubiquitous that pretty much every well-known social media platform has it. this thing is a recommendation algorithm that acts on its own filters and aggregates items onto a homepage; usenet only had “filtering” by rooms. and yes, this definition would include reddit with its algorithm. i’m still unfortunately unable to find what you’re referring to that would be such an algorithm.

though since the beginning this has been a bit of a tangent—i mentioned disregarding that part of facebook’s innovations since it would be an unfair comparison. what did you mean when you said i was, well to put it a much harsher way than what you actually said but in the only way i can succintly summarize it after putting down this overly long disclaimer, dismissive of innovations?

I capitalize for comparison (to Social Media) and have my humanity doubted >:((((

I suggest you watch Tantacrul’s video on Facebook for what made it a social network and social media service respectively—the latter, centralized feeds, which from a skim of his Wikipedia article I don’t see what Kibo has anything to do with.

No, you’re probably thinking of Social Networks. I’m talking about an algorithmically-filtered homepage of recent updates anywhere, creating your filter bubble.

Facebook is not at all comparable to Geocities, displays the contents of every thread of a “section”, and then invented Social Media by adding Feeds. Even disregarding the lattes, I don’t see how Mbin is at all comparable.

I mean mbin is just Reddit + Twitter

the last time i went to a random person’s wedding i won their lottery for a pillow-blanket so you know what to do

(also what you mentioned is normal chinese thinking)

i did :(

So you’re saying we need to give the fibre optic cables guns?

Just more to the pile of the unintended consequences of capitalism.