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Hmm you might be right. And if 2016 has taught us anything: it might work.
Hmm you might be right. And if 2016 has taught us anything: it might work.
What a kamikaze of a defense…
Great point, this will happen instantly.
It’s actually optimized for them. The goal is to get users to spend time and see ads etc. The UI is not made for us users.
Devils advocate here: it’s their webservice right? They determine who can access it.
If there were legislation that would force them to make it interoperable that would be one thing. But you can’t just demand access to their infrastructure.
This is fine imo. If you don’t want to comply, don’t. You just don’t get to extract EU data
And didn’t their president recently step down because of fraud with research data or something?
Things are going great over there.
But now the verified account can be like: ooo wow, we are totally humbled by the love for our product thank you so much you guys!!
Which… I’m now starting to realize is fine. It’s just not for me anymore.
He could be if he wanted out anyway, and just wants that sack of cash.
Yeah. I liked Reddit and I’m still feeling the “fuck spez” thing.
But there is just nothing to be done: Reddit is going a different way and that’s fine. So now I’m here and again it’s fine. What is nice is that if I understand this federation thing correctly, there can’t be ONE bad actor that messes everything up.
Client apps could do it. I’m using Memmy at the moment and just turned off NSFW content.
More client apps are in development as well. As the eco system gets going, more options will allow for this.
Well: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/discord-starts-down-the-dangerous-road-of-ads-this-week/
Edit: it’s more loot box stuff… but it’s step one