iridaniotter

joined 2 years ago
[–] iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 11 months ago

Comrade Zuck doing us a favor and ideologically purging the Fediverse of all the liberals by extinguishing all the collaborationist instances. o7

[–] iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Here's one way it could happen

  1. Facebook joins the Fediverse, becoming the largest instance
  2. Majority of Fediverse embraces this
  3. Facebook decides to deviate slightly from ActivityPub
  4. Not wanting to be disconnected, majority of Fediverse follows them
  5. The real, ActivityPub-based Fediverse is dead (or as small as it was when it started) and now Facebook controls its (former) instances
[–] iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 11 months ago

No, projects like the Fediverse require initial protectionism. If you let megacorporations into your project, they will dominate and gain control over how the protocol develops in the future. Google Chrome's huge share of users has enabled it to get dangerously close to locking other browsers out of most of the Internet (the Web Integrity API shenanigans are just the start). Chrome also removed support for JPEG XL, killing that attempt at a standard and enshrining its own WebP. It's called "Embrace, extend, and extinguish".

If the Fediverse actually wants to grow, it must unite against this. Otherwise we will end up with a couple hundred thousand Fedipact hardliners and millions on Facebook 2. No progress will have been made.

[–] iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Return to buttons. This "infotainment" fad is seriously dangerous.

[–] iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Firefox on Android with U Block Origin. Can watch in 720p and even listen to audio while in another tab. Stop using apps folks!

[–] iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 year ago

Fuck Google, I'm not paying them shit.

However, when Google and Amazon are nationalized then I'll agree. Everyone should pay taxes which go into the government owned server farms.

[–] iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml -2 points 1 year ago

No, it is not OK to support Israel. They're a genocidal state. You should support Palestine or at least be a coward and stay out of talking about it.

[–] iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago

It's not an SOE and like half of its stocks are owned by Americans. But the parent company got some government funding according to the US Congress, so the whole conglomerate is considered an SOE by America now. Sounds like trade war stuff to me lol