I pre-emptively defederated it from my instance.
Jamie
joined 2 years ago
Because all of our food is stuffed with sugar and our teeth rot rapidly as a result.
If they didn't care about the population on the Fediverse, they wouldn't implement it. They might be concerned about what it could be in the future, rather than what it is now.
By invading the space and outdoing the competition, they gobble up the growth our space could have had more effectively.
Makes me glad I'm a millennial and had to deal with the times when technology wasn't so "nice" to you. When Windows would let you delete system32 with less hoops, random websites could drive-by malware into your machine, and you could tangibly customize your OS to look completely different.
Late 90s/early 00s computing really gave opportunities to get good at understanding what your computer did, scrutinize when downloading random programs, and made you think about what you were clicking on a little bit if you didn't want to get a virus.
It's not just about personal data. But what will definitely happen is they're going to attempt an Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. They'll embrace the fediverse, then they'll add their own features on top on their platform without giving back to the wider community. Then, when they leech as many people to their platform as they can from the rest of the Fediverse after making open projects struggle to keep up, they'll drop it and kill the rest of the network in the process.
I would say it's better this way for society as a whole. A splintered populace is harder to control. And I'm not just talking about some "guv'ment out to get us" thing, because they're trying to kill encryption and other dumb stuff like that already. But it's a lot harder for other people to spread misinformation if the majority of the population isn't centered around 3 websites.
Of course, there are negatives to this whole thing, too. But I think the net positive will be greater.
The difficult part about that is, the way Lemmy is designed to easily integrate any custom client also allows bots to be made even easier. Only way to really do it would be by restricting the API, and with it, a lot of the freedoms of Lemmy.
If I hadn't deleted myself off the site, I'd go and write the worst, most cringy, NSFW worthy John Oliver fanfiction that my brain could produce.
The one shame of leaving entirely is I can't do that and won't go back on my principles.
That'd be good for an indie game, but for a AAA, free to play Halo game? That's almost nobody compared to what they should be pulling. BF 2042 is beating it, even if by a slim margin, and it wasn't even made free.
It could be possible for an instance to load balance itself with some work. But the issue there is, most instances are run by one person using their own money or donations, so adding more infra to spread the load costs money.
Even beans?