cybirdman

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[โ€“] cybirdman@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This makes me so sad. The movie was really great, I loved every part of it and am even looking forward to watching it again when it comes out at home. It's unfortunate that marketing dropped the ball so badly.

It's kind of obvious focusing on the love story is the wrong angle here, what really resonated with me is the city, the amazing animation and the underlying message about finding yourself, the sacrifices of immigrant families and the love of a parent towards their child over their own dreams.

What a shame that execs had to ruin what was a really good work of art with a misguided and confused marketing campaign.

[โ€“] cybirdman@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh cool, I'm too lazy to read but what would that mean in terms of resources? Is it going to take an insane amount of memory or just take a long time to process longer chains?

[โ€“] cybirdman@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Maybe that was their game with the federation stuff. "Hey we didn't start this, we were just following suit on this open source project". Anyway this logic wouldn't fly in any court, they can't have a copyright on text-based social media. They can only own their branding. Musk is just throwing a hissy fit again

[โ€“] cybirdman@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 years ago

Well said, I'm definitely going to switch to an instance that defederates meta if mine does not. I don't want us to get drowned in corporate nonsense. I am so happy to see Lemmy succeed and hope this wont affect us like it did XMPP

[โ€“] cybirdman@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I think one of the ways we could combat as well as defederating them from instances is provide such a good user experience to consume content on the fediverse that threads - or whatever else - becomes just a shittier, ad-ridden version of what we use.

Look at Reddit for example, if they didn't have the power to remove our access to APIs, third party apps would still provide the best experience. Can any of the features Reddit provides that third party apps don't justify the number of ads thrown in your face? Nope.

Same here, if we focus on improving the experience of a Lemmy or kbin user and ignore whatever meta is doing, nothing is stopping us from becoming just the better way of consuming all fediverse content. Then if threads were to drop federation, we would still have the upper hand.

The only thing that might hurt us in the end is if we start giving in and host communities on their instance. But if we don't, and keep our ground, we can have the best of both worlds. See their content without their ads, and keep control of our own content, without their rules.

[โ€“] cybirdman@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

A solid way of searching communities, integrated with third party apps. Good autoplay and video controls for most video sources. A reliable way of hosting videos that would be anonymous and easy. What is bothering me the most right now is a bug, subscribing to communities in other instances requires pressing subscribe twice.

[โ€“] cybirdman@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

I am a programmer, which means that either I sit around doing nothing all day because chatgpt is doing my job, or I am the guy fixing printers around here.

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