Sure, I wish them nothing but failure, but I'm intending to wait around and see what happens first. From what I've heard Threads isn't going well for them anyway. I still worry that even if there's mass defederation it would still poison the pool, because it would influence the culture of instances that are federated with it and isolate those that aren't.
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Absolutely, I post much more here because I know actual people will actually read it and may actually respond like they would to an actual human. It's like the old days of the internet.
Nothing is federated to Threads, they haven't switched it on yet.
None of that is particularly the thing that worries me - Meta could be crawling Lemmy right now and getting all that information even if they weren't planning on supporting federation, but it's on the public web intentionally to be read, so it's just like anyone else reading it. The only piece of information I'm surprised would get shared is IP address, and without knowing the technical reasons I'm wondering how/why they would get this and if it's something Lemmy could fix in software.
The main thing that worries me is still if the toxic culture of Meta's social networks floods into our communities.
It's pretty bad even in the context of British Colonialism and notably recent.
The British Indian Ocean Territory was formed specifically to prevent the native inhabitants from gaining self-determination, allowing for a joint UK/US military base to be set up. The inhabitants were forcibly expelled in the 1960s, and ever since then the British government have taken active, sometimes deceptive, measures to prevent them from ever returning. You should look it up.
That particular jurisdiction exists pretty unethically as well, which somewhat puts me off sites that use it.
It's always been a pet peeve of mine when TLDs get used for something other than their purpose. I get that countries have benefited from it, but that's random chance and not what the system was set up for. I know this is a small thing to get annoyed about (so don't take me too seriously) but if it were up to me, .ai domains should have to prove their connection to Anguilla.
The only reason I asked is that I wasn't 100% sure what it means, I could have guessed. I got that it probably means the same thing, I just wasn't sure if it would cover a city/train trip the same way I was thinking. I, personally, wouldn't use vacation. If they mean the same thing I think probably the Americans have the etymologically better term, if anything.
What a lovely, humble thing to say, thank you.
Respectfully, I'm assuming a "vacation" here is a US-ism for what we in the UK would call a "holiday" (i.e. a recreational trip somewhere), I'm not sure if there are nuanced differences. To see as much as possible of the local culture is generally my aim, that's my main reason for travelling. I'm not saying that in a snooty "high culture" way at all, sometimes the most mundane cultural things can be the most interesting. Also to try the local cuisine. I like trains, so going to places I can explore by train are great - Interrailing around Europe have been some of my favourite trips. Also I did a great train trip around Japan pre-covid.
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