Ah yes of course. Both Meta and Bluesky have far outrun any federated-short-blogging effort of the Fediverse, and as a result companies will rather want to monetize those. But this is also the paradoxical situation of people in here who both want “the Fediverse to succeed” and “keep corporate interests out of the Fediverse”: Either won’t happen.

Right now it looks more like this’ll remain a hyper-specialized place for specific discussions, Mastodon more so. You can go there for false dichotomies in regards to browser development feedback for example, or for dejected Youtube actual-content-creators getting yelled at for engaging with their community.

But it seems it’ll stay at that. However, this also keeps any monetary interest away from it, so that’s good. Of course, should this ever change and the Fediverse grows more welcoming and that works and it grows bigger, of course the moment users move in (in numbers), advertisers, astroturfers and all will move in with them. That’s just a given.

And partially why I hate this “Just block’em!”-approach to Threads: It assumes the stick-your-fingers-into-your-ears-and-ignore-the-issue approach would ever be an actual solution to any problem. And then when you run into an issue you cannot avoid that way, you have fuck all experience doing something actionable about it, as you’ve never tried before.

Person of Interest, no? That’s exactly what that was. 😅

You raise an interesting point. With web 2.0, we did the equivalent of all the fediverse stuff blocking meta. And look where that got us. Maybe it’s time for a different approach.

You realize the second part would also happen if the Fediverse “takes off”, yes? Then naturally companies would come in and trivially take things over as there’s money to be made.

It’s a natural end state until governments can be made to curb corporate freedom.

It’s just called moderation. Since we cannot show that it could be done better, owing to a mix of human nature, the nature of the Internet and discussions on it, and how moderation generally works.

Yeah like, they could put the opening hours on the door or something. Or lock the doors to indicate that it’s closed! Or shake their heads! Oh wait!

I don’t mind the difference in functionality, so much as how slow it is, which was already a huge problem with new.reddit.com. Having gone back to old.reddit.com+RES now, fucking hell reddit used to be such a snappy website. 😑

Is this satire? It has to be, right? Considering your comment is entirely unnecessary?

Just do the Password Game to figure out a good one!

Would ë qualify?

And sure, in theory your hashing browser-side could break if you do that. Depending on how much text the user pastes in. But at that point, it’s no longer your problem but the browser’s. 🦹

Both one off from the superior hexagon. The bestagon.

Authorities tried to locate the missing scissors, which were found at the same store the following day.

🤣

Imagine being the store clerk having to tell them that.

Yeah it’s because a separation can leave you in a really vulnerable emotional and mental place.

And assholes like Peterson or Jones or so are adept at latching onto that and subverting your perspective from the inside out. You’d think “Hey, that could never happen to me!” but it’s difficult to know how vulnerable you’ll be after a truly harrowing emotional experience - which a breakup can be in some particular cases even though between adults it really should not have to be - and once you’re exploited, it’s virtually impossible to realize how skewed your view has become.

Of course, this is separate from the often much more common case where someone was a nutjob from the getgo (like the guy in this article) and it just took their partner a while to realize that all the fame and money isn’t worth living with someone so utterly deranged.

Oh. Man imagine if they had not privatized such basic public services…

Why YSK: Locking your credit with the main 3 places is not enough.

Someone explain to me what that means. You mean you have to ask different agencies when asking for a loan? Wouldn’t you just talk to the bank you want the loan from?

But not Lemmy, apparently? Since we have to link to Fedia and hence go there?

It’s scaling. There’s no hard cutoff. The longer a renter has been in, the more difficult to cancel their contact. The idea is that the longer someone has lived there, the more their life will have become reliant on being in that area, and hence uprooting them is less and less sensible.

Hamburg in Germany. I think we got even more tenant friendly laws than the other federal states though.

Something that is difficult to do over here because the longer a tenant has been in a rented place the more say they get over living there.

Effectively once it’s been 5+ years, you no longer get to evict them. You can ask nicely if they’ll leave, otherwise you’re SOL.