Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed

• knova@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Intentionally, I think.

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  • muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s what I suspect

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  • Natanael@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Have you heard of bridgy?

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    • Zagorath@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      IMO bridgy is not well designed. The fact that it requires both the follower and the followee to specifically opt in basically makes it DOA. Both Mastodon and BlueSky are completely open and public in terms of post visibility, so bridgy should have been designed to require explicit opt outs from anyone who didn’t want their content bridged.

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      • Natanael@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Bridgy started without that requirement and it pissed off too many Mastodonians so they reworked it

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      • Irelephant@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The fediverse hoa had a bit of a problem with it, ignoring the fact that federation is opt out by default.

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    • knova@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes, but it’s not relevant to the point I was making

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• rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m really not happy about bluesky their fragmentation of the fediverse protocols

  shrug, I wish they were with us, but they are also a big ole corporate entity, so I’m kind ok with us staying our our side of the fence. As they need to implement payment and corporate protections to their network, we’re free to be free over here.

  is only going to harm us in the long run.

  We don’t have to play ball. not with them anyway,

  I think, If we have any credible threat, it’s going to be from the Governmental gross anti-tampering laws, forced moderation, or backup regulations. They could make it legally difficulty for us to exist.

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  • kudra@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think, If we have any credible threat, it’s going to be from the Governmental gross anti-tampering laws, forced moderation, or backup regulations. They could make it legally difficulty for us to exist

    This. I have considerable concern that Fascists will straight up ban Fedi if enough people shift to it. They don’t like not being able to control everything, Fedi is far too much actual freedom of communication.

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    • muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The thing about fedi is how do u stop it. Ban every instances ip? make it illegal to use? They can try but they will have very little success.

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      • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You make laws like the Online Safety Act in the UK. You then attach a multi-million dollar fine to anyone who doesn’t adhere to the bonkers unenforceable stipulations in the text.

        All of a sudden, no one but a corporation with a legal department can safely run an instance without putting their money and eventually freedom on the line.

        They might not be able to just stop it, but you can force us into a pirate scenario where we have to do it in the dark.

        We are likely starting to slowly head into 1984 territory. IF Fascim continues to rise, eventually, non-state-run media will be deemed unlawful and they’ll do what they can to make it go away.

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      • kudra@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They’d shut down large instances, pressure WordPress to remove support, in the US at least, it could be seen as too risky, if they wanted to they would find a way. I don’t think this would happen easily in the EU though.

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• Dil@is.hardlywork.ing ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Bluesky was always twitters goal, they were losing hella money, so they devloped blue sky.

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