Foni
@Foni@lemm.ee
- Comment on Trump nominates fracking magnate and climate change skeptic as energy secretary 4 days ago:
The comparison of the person proposed for the equivalent position in the European Union is interesting.
- Comment on X rival Bluesky gains 1.25 million users following U.S. election 6 days ago:
Personally I think that financing a platform like this with premium subscriptions is illusory. I could be wrong but what are they going to offer as a premium?
I think it may be interesting to note that Spotify is closing its first green year in its history this year, for reference.
- Comment on X rival Bluesky gains 1.25 million users following U.S. election 6 days ago:
Ok. You are in a situation of harassment and you believe that giving your data and delegating your security to a private company that responds to economic interests is a viable long-term solution.
There are things that one cannot argue against
- Comment on X rival Bluesky gains 1.25 million users following U.S. election 6 days ago:
I will count it as a victory when my government’s communication channels with me are not private property. A government-owned Mastodon server for official accounts would be logical (the EU already has it even though it barely uses it)
- Comment on X rival Bluesky gains 1.25 million users following U.S. election 6 days ago:
Well, I am not a systems engineer to answer your question, in any case smaller Hitlers equals Hitlers with less power. Dividing power is not the definitive solution to authoritarianism, but it usually helps a lot, especially if the agents are also competitive. “If you are too Hitler, I’ll go to this other server that is a little less so” is a valid incentive to avoid the Hitlerization of the admins.
I don’t think I’ve ever used the name Hitler so much.
- Comment on X rival Bluesky gains 1.25 million users following U.S. election 1 week ago:
Ok, I haven’t denied that, the tools are different (I don’t even know Twitter’s tools very well), I debate whether that is worth enough to accept that it is centralized. If over time they consider that something else is more profitable, they will change the moderation tools, have no doubt.
- Comment on X rival Bluesky gains 1.25 million users following U.S. election 1 week ago:
Ok, if for you the API is the most important thing, go ahead, I’m worried about more companies doing “things” with my data, everyone has their priorities.
P.S. Unlike in BlueSky in Mastodon you can be 100% sure that the API will never be closed, in Bluesky it will depend on variable business interests
- Comment on X rival Bluesky gains 1.25 million users following U.S. election 1 week ago:
Ok, if it’s good for you I’m glad, maybe over time it will happen to you like vaping and you can completely switch to decentralized networks
- Comment on X rival Bluesky gains 1.25 million users following U.S. election 1 week ago:
Are these details really that important? Is it really that difficult to manually block 50-100 users? I don’t know, everything you are telling me are, at best, marginal improvements that do not justify selling all your personal data to a private company seeking profit from those data/contributions.
- Comment on X rival Bluesky gains 1.25 million users following U.S. election 1 week ago:
It has a single owner who makes the decisions and makes profitable the contributions of the users. It is a social media model that has been over for me for some time now, if they are open the better for them, I am not going to join anyway.
- Comment on X rival Bluesky gains 1.25 million users following U.S. election 1 week ago:
I left Twitter years ago, but I think you could also block whoever you want, whether people do it more or less is independent of the site, the moderation tools are the same. 3
What’s more, I am 100% sure that if in a few years Bluesky considers it economically beneficial for its shareholders that these tools “have occasional failures” this will happen without a doubt. This is something that if happens in Mastodon, changing the node you are done
- Comment on X rival Bluesky gains 1.25 million users following U.S. election 1 week ago:
Yesterday I read on mastodon that leaving Twitter to go to Bluesky is like quitting smoking to start vaping. Changing a centralized place that lives off your data for another one. Right now Bluesky does not have hate speech like Twitter just because it does not suit the current accounts of its shareholders
- Comment on Wikipedia is under assault: rogue users keep posting AI generated nonsense 5 weeks ago:
How much of an idiot do you have to be to attack Wikipedia?
- Comment on Airline airs ‘sexually explicit’ film on every screen – with no way to turn it off 1 month ago:
In Spain it is for those over 12 too, Americans have a strange relationship with sex. But in any case, if due to a breakdown you couldn’t stop on the screens, they should have put something for all audiences. I’m not a very strict parent, but I don’t want them to force my 5-year-old daughter to watch something for people over 13.
- Comment on Here’s how much Disney Plus will charge to share your password 1 month ago:
This is the one platform I would truly hate to lose, not for myself, as I can download whatever I want (like I did when Netflix made changes), but because I have a young daughter (5 years old) who discovers her shows through the platform’s recommendations. Downloading and trying something unfamiliar could be challenging for all of us
- Comment on Can't beat the classics 3 months ago:
one of the funniest movies ever
- Comment on Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way 3 months ago:
never underestimate the data transfer speed of a truckload of hard drives
- Comment on Netflix is kicking US subscribers off its cheapest ad-free plan soon 3 months ago:
Meanwhile, torrent remains 100% free
- Comment on First overseas trip with my girlfriend – Any tips to make It our best trip? 4 months ago:
The important thing about the trip is not to see more places or take more pics, it’s to spend time with her, it is better to leave without visiting that town that is surely not that good at the end, and spend an afternoon just chatting with her in a nice place.I think that makes better memories than being stressed all day because of a tight schedule.
- Comment on First overseas trip with my girlfriend – Any tips to make It our best trip? 4 months ago:
Be more concerned about enjoying your girlfriend than enjoying the place.
- Comment on Why is the current labour party in the UK considered more center left? Do you think they will pass any policies that are considered left leaning now that they have won the majority? 4 months ago:
Yes, I understand you, in my country it has not yet taken hold in a drastic way, but you see how politicians with ideas, social democrats at most, are treated in the press like ultra-intractable radical leftists.
- Comment on Why is the current labour party in the UK considered more center left? Do you think they will pass any policies that are considered left leaning now that they have won the majority? 4 months ago:
Thanks for the info, I wasn’t paying attention, but because British politics doesn’t affect me of course, I’m sorry for what it does.
- Comment on Why is the current labour party in the UK considered more center left? Do you think they will pass any policies that are considered left leaning now that they have won the majority? 4 months ago:
What you say is better than what the Tories did, but with such a large majority they could seize the opportunity and renationalise some privatized services, improve and adequately finance those that the right was letting die, change the tax system so that the upper classes help to finance the state. You already know, things that should be normal on the left until the “third way”
Like op, I’m not British and I wonder if this would be possible or do we forget that something like this is going to happen, I don’t know, if you’re from there, tell us.
- Comment on If Batman were real today, he'd go after the CEOs of companies, not gangsters. 4 months ago:
Then again, doesn’t that kinda undermine your original point?
I don’t understand why that should be done, the character stops being popular, so good writers stop having interest in working on it, they try to revitalize it with different stories, etc. whether the loss of popularity precedes the bad stories or not is not something that I am in a position to determine. In any case it wasn’t my point, I’m not a big fan of comics, I read it there and in movies/television, which if I continue a little more, it makes some sense
- Comment on If Batman were real today, he'd go after the CEOs of companies, not gangsters. 4 months ago:
Well, I’m not a big comic reader but that’s what the story with Lex Luthor is about, right? how all of Superman’s immense power is useless against the intelligence of a rich and evil man. I think that is the most famous antagonist and that has transcended the comics the most for a reason. Maybe for fans it’s doomsday or zod, but for casual readers and the general public it is lex and it is for good reason.
- Comment on If Batman were real today, he'd go after the CEOs of companies, not gangsters. 4 months ago:
Maybe, or maybe they have bad writers because they are not able to imagine credible stories in which Superman’s strength is useless in the face of the corruption of the system and the businessmen who abuse their power, no one would believe stories like that, you need to add kryptonite to make it realistic
- Comment on If Batman were real today, he'd go after the CEOs of companies, not gangsters. 4 months ago:
I once read that Superman was a humble man who faces big exploitative businessmen, while Batman is a big exploitative businessman who stands up to homeless people. The implications of Batman being more popular than Superman today and what this says about our society is enough for a complete essay.
- Comment on Facebook and Instagram’s “pay or consent” ad model violates the DMA, says the EU 4 months ago:
Yeah, I guess you could be right.
- Comment on Facebook and Instagram’s “pay or consent” ad model violates the DMA, says the EU 4 months ago:
Yes, surely, but there is an underlying problem for this entire system, there is no economically viable alternative to the use of data for advertising sales, without that all those websites cease to be profitable.I don’t think this is good for anyone.
- Comment on Facebook and Instagram’s “pay or consent” ad model violates the DMA, says the EU 4 months ago:
facebook and instagram? I don’t know about the rest of Europe, but in Spain right now practically all newspapers/digital media have copied that model and you either accept cookies or pay