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I too am worried about what happens when instances start beefin and defederating.

But if a corp such as Meta owned Lemmy.world and one day decided to charge others for the right to federate, then it is also shitty.

The predatory practice of Big corps is offer service at a loss and once enough people on board, force users to pay to keep using.

Current Lemmy(ers?) have to realize this and not post or interact with monetized instances to avoid putting their content behind a paywall.

Very informative, thanks for sharing.

The author is definitely qualified to speak on XMPP and ActivityPub but one thing I noticed is all protocols and technologies mentioned really had no other alternatives for communication. Users flocked because there was nowhere else to go.

Imagine Lemmy.world was owned by Meta and today decided to federate only with those who paid it.

It is in the power of users to host their content on instances that will not turn on them - which unfortunately means not holding discourse on monitized instances

I don't know how I feel about defederating but I would like this instance to have a Terms of Use or Policy that prevents anyone who federates with us to use content on this instance for profit. Or something similar to spirit of Open Source licenses.

The link to mastadon's blog you posted is very informative. I encourage everyone who peeks in this post to read it.

I don't necessarily agree with Mastadon's official stance because say the largest Lemmy instance (Lemmy.world) was owned by Meta. Once enough users relied on content from Lemmy.world, Meta could then start charging other instances to federate with it if they want content. Which won't kill "the platform" but will make information inaccessible.

Mastadon's stance :

We have been advocating for interoperability between platforms for years. The biggest hurdle to users switching platforms when those platforms become exploitative is the lock-in of the social graph, the fact that switching platforms means abandoning everyone you know and who knows you. The fact that large platforms are adopting ActivityPub is not only validation of the movement towards decentralized social media, but a path forward for people locked into these platforms to switch to better providers. Which in turn, puts pressure on such platforms to provide better, less exploitative services. This is a clear victory for our cause, hopefully one of many to come.

However I'm confused how Mastadon's official stance reflects their devs and admins because one of Mastodon admin, kev, from fosstodon.org, has been contacted to take part in an off-the-record meeting with Meta. He refused politely and, most importantly, published the email to be transparent with its users. Thanks kev!

Mail from Meta to Kev, from fosstodon, and reply.

excellent find. well done!

duckduckgo (who uses Microsoft's index I believe) is able to find Lemmy instances already.

problem is since every instance has its own domain you cannot search all of Lemmy or the more obscure fediverse. lemmy.world, beehaw.org, programming.dev are all different "websites".

I append "reddit" to my query when I want to search reddit for a human answer to a question. Can't do that with Lemmy, unless the instance is branded as Lemmy.

Unless there will be an org or volunteers that indexes federated instances and makes them available to search engines to they can be differentiated, finding stuff in the fediverse might be difficult...

Stuff you have to relearn every time you have to use it

😂 If I could summarize my engineering career, that would be the one liner.

Yeah totally! I would encourage everyone to try it with their workflow and see where it can make a difference and where it falls short.

Reason I made an example out of regex is b/c of how much hate it gets :D I definitely see why regex is widely appreciated.

I tell him that I am currently in a simulation and thus it must be the last game I played.

If I get a fat check that means this is all a simulation ;)

this comment is no way related to your post.

I saw the one of the community rules is "more fuck u/spez comments" so I'm trying that out.

fuck u/spez

I will admit reading the reasons against Linux made me a bit butthurt given how much it has accomplished and the ubiquity of it running on servers that host our services.

However, a (real time operating system) RTOS is distinct from a time-sharing operating system, such as Unix, which manages the sharing of system resources with a scheduler, data buffers, or fixed task prioritization in a multitasking or multiprogramming environment. And a time-sharing kernel is likely not suitable for the demands of real-time feedback that airplanes, especially fighter planes, are under. Admittingly I don't work on the kernels so I might be out of my league talking about it if there are ways to optimize them for RTOS applications. And I also don't work on airplane but hobby learning about them.

In an airplane, the pilots are voting members. If they they are nose diving and tell the airplane to pull up, the airplane will calculate how much of the full range of motion to allow the flaps to "bite" the air so that the plane doesn't desintigrate. This takes into account speed, altitude, air density, load on wings, load on frame, G forces pilots would experience, etc etc.

thank you

I'm having a hard time believing that is the case for "search." Cards and "google news" is another story.

As much as I dislike Google's practices, they are doing a service by indexing where websites are and allowing them to be found based on keywords.

I feel if I go to "google.com" and search for Google should show me links to so that I can visit the site directly. Any law that retards that is shooting Canadian news outlets in the foot.

Now if Google somehow finds what you're looking for and does not take me directly to the website and instead parses the site, presents the content, and shows its own ads, as opposed to ads hosted on , then yeah - google can go play in traffic.