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The only hopeful improvement is that his reign would be more unstable and maybe the oligarchs don't support him. Like always, that means that innocent Russian civilians will take the brunt of the actual consequences.

The only app that I've seen so far that claims it will (eventually) support Kbin is Artemis, which is not released at all yet.

Spez has directly praised Musk's moves at Twitter and cited them as inspiration.

Just curious, is there actually a rule that was violated or is that just a convenient excuse?

Seems really weird to give mods the power to make a sub private or marked as NSFW and then complain when said mods use those features.

It doesn't require users to enforce. Individual instances should probably start having caps and close signups/invites occasionally.

I think it's more that Amazon hasn't done anything to improve it since purchasing Goodreads years ago. Some minor design changes, but the algorithm for recommendations is arguably worse and there have not been any significant features added.

They are trying to find a new distributor for the second season, presumably the first would be packaged with that deal.

Instances could do what Beehaw does and defed one direction but still allow their content to be seen by other instances. I think Meta could decide to defed and block that, if they wanted to, however. (Beehaw doesn't seem to care if other instances see their content as long as they can control posts/comments on their end, which doesn't bother me at all since it doesn't effect me in any way. And I still get more content!)

But fracturing is not necessarily a death sentence. I don't necessarily want a billion users part of my echo chamber.

OMG why do tech bros try to force blockchain into everything

Target and Starbucks are (understandably, IMO) bowing to violent threats against their employees and customers. There's not enough nuts out there to make a boycott actually impact their profit margin, and if there was it would be obvious to the other side that would probably more than offset any effort. Rainbow Capitalism wouldn't exist if that wasn't the case.

But there are enough nuts out there to make good on their threats of violence. We've already seen those threats carried out many times, so it's not just some hypothetical possibility.

I don't think anyone is questioning your cynicism of Meta's intentions or motivations, but the nature of the Fediverse is specifically designed to make it very difficult (if not impossible) for any one party to control the entire thing. It's a question of how not if.

The worst thing I could see is something like the development of React where FB has an overwhelming advantage in sheer resources and ends up having a major influence on the direction of software trends. But that would still just be a popularity thing and would not actively stop anyone from doing their own thing. Maybe there is something in the license for ActivityPub that would let them pull a Google-vs-Oracle reverse engineering, but again that won't stop other instances or developers from ignoring them if they wanted.