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Old boss, same as the new boss. I don't think spez made the decision on their own, they absolutely suck but they're just the scapegoat., the problem is the whole company and its structure.
The symptom is that they even considered it. The problem is that they are a for-profit company that systematically doesn't care about us at all.
Hmm, I'm not sure I understand what you're suggesting. The host running Invidious on a server would have a different fingerprint to the same person accessing it through a web browser or phone app. Do Invidious hosters even use a Google account? I assumed it just accessed Google servers like an anonymous user.
Reposting the classic:
I just want to say the maintainer who wrote that appears to have handled this gracefully. It gives me hope.
They've made a transparent public announcement, making it clear what we should and shouldn't expect from them, and how we should handle it. They understand the FOSS paradigm (no, I correct myself, the digital paradigm) and have given their blessings for the community to do what they do best. I'd guess the smart thing to do is play along with the cease notice to avoid consequences, go underground and make YouTube play whack-a-mole with sock-puppets and hostile jurisdictions.
Cut off one head and three shall take its place. Wind in your back lads, wherever you go.
Yeah, I heard someone pitching the old let "AI" handle it line. Machine learning can't moderate those communities to even a mediocre standard. It's just too variable, subjective and nuanced. Even actual members of communities can be crappy at moderating them!
Well, while it is surprising it's all happening within a year or so, it's not unexpected at all.
They're ultimately for-profit companies. They have openly demonstrated the obvious truth that when push comes to shove, users don't matter to them, at least not as much as money. Our attention was the product.
These companies have proven time and time again that a quick moneygrab will win over retaining the people who make the site work. capitalism 101 baby.
I notice (and I realize it's most likely an issue at the source and not the fault of the creator) that some now-dead instances which were formerly top-10 aren't show here. Hexbear also isn't shown: while it (currently) doesn't federate, similarly to bakchodi, it is also a fork and so technically not Lemmy, but pretty much Lemmy.
"Commies? In MY computer?" More likely than you think.
Hah, I haven't heard that analogy before, but I see what it's getting at. I wouldn't say it's a rule to live by, but as you learn more about technology you (usually) also learn more about its constant abuse and its critical flaws.
It’s the mediocre and peri- technologists that drive hype. Right?
I'm not sure exactly who you mean, but never believe the hype:
- Steve Jobs didn't know shit about computers and took the fame from people who did, just like Edison and Musk.
- Most people studied in machine learning hate the term "Artificial Intelligence", it's a marketing gimmick used by marketing.
- There's a similar, but lesser, sentiment in security being called "cyber".
- Anything saying "better privacy" or "more secure" without giving a specific threat scenario (like, more secure against [x] attack) - they don't know shit. Privacy and security are not linear values you can have more or less of.
- Internet of Things ('smart devices') is a privacy and security NIGHTMARE, and we've known that since day 1. Companies don't care. It's easy money.
- If you can't (hypothetically) run it yourself, you're the product.
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