llama

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[–] llama@midwest.social 12 points 2 years ago

That's exactly it and there's no reason to pretend otherwise. Meta is a financial instrument to turn money into more money. The only reason Meta would engage with any third party is to make their commercial products more attractive to advertisers. Play with Meta and before you know if they'll be writing all the rules about how you're allowed to run your instance.

[–] llama@midwest.social 15 points 2 years ago

"and is actually good" it won't be actually good because with Meta the users are always going to be the product. What you are thinking is exactly what they want to do. Build the best looking app first so everybody installs it, then they're in a position to start making the calls about the future of the fediverse.

[–] llama@midwest.social 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Exactly, off the record means the expectation is Meta will be given free expertise to gain an edge on their competitors. Don't give diddly squat to actors who want to commercialize your content. It will never end well for you, only Meta.

[–] llama@midwest.social 13 points 2 years ago

Seriously, if you want to see them squirm, hit them with a wall of silence. They clearly feel they need something and, for Meta, negative feedback is better than no feedback at all.

[–] llama@midwest.social 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)

FB: We're confused why someone would sign up for a social media site set up by somebody in their dorm room, tell us how to be more like you.

[–] llama@midwest.social 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Looking at you oceanbreeze.earth, your instance is worth defending from bots

[–] llama@midwest.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Since we're only talking about a week timeline here, would it be possible to update the sync app with a list of popular Lemmy instances and a way to view your favorite one from a web view within the app? That way people could still use sync in the meantime while native features gradually get rolled out.

[–] llama@midwest.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I want this too, sort of like multireddits but spanning the entire fediverse.

[–] llama@midwest.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

One thing I've seen get in the way is everyone wants their own instance rather than to setup just one community on an existing instance.

[–] llama@midwest.social 1 points 2 years ago

Reminds me of my fun times with ndiswrapper and nvidia-bl

[–] llama@midwest.social 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Because the nuance of calling a PC a PC is that it supports a standard motherboard configuration and any Linux kernel will be able to boot. Mobile devices aren't like this and every component requires a specialized driver to work.

[–] llama@midwest.social 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Bluray2160 and use mediainfo to make sure the codecs being used are AVC and AAC in an MP4 container.

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