In other news, water is wet. I only see FUD here.

That’s what turkey did after theirs got shot down first.

There is some more context to that event and it’s aftermath.

“eat the rich” “destroy the institutions”

Etc… That’s not left. Insinuating killing it destroying societies is, by definition, anarchist.

Socialism, Communism are about change, not control or jealousy.

“slightly”.

That’s being very nice. The correct word would be anarchist.

No need to apologise for anything bud, this is the Internet where Linus rants daily! We all do!

I understand you’re fed up with all the sync bs. I just think we have to try to turn this in/to a way everybody gets better from it.

The reddit refugees are happy because “this feels just like home”, they(we) don’t care it’s 20 bucks!

The og Foss crowd grumpingly :) accepts the higher amount of contributions which stems from that. (this is the point we’ve to drive home to ljdawson(sync dev)

And we all benefit because the fediverse grows and keeps growing, more content, more everything. Shiny beautiful future, end to war and world hunger, beginning of a new era where humanity reaches for the stars or dies because of a rogue AI or because of a runaway greenhouse effect.

Wait. No, not those last ones. It should have a happy ending.

Anyway: Everybody is happy. More or less. :) *for a while. *

Did somebody asked your opinion?

No. But here we are. Reading about the “sync cult” whatever that is.

So… Let’s extend that courtesy to everyone, all right?

Because a “nobody asked about your opinion” stance is a sure fire way to end any discussion platform. Like lemmy.

What I do think that Mr. Dawson should do is direct a percentage of that sweet sync income at lemmy.world and the lemmy devs. That would end or at least lessen this discussion.

Nice write up. But: what’s the gain for meta? Embrace, extend, extinguish is what you do to competition. Don’t forget meta is a Corp. Corps do things for money. All I see in your example is a cash drain. Corps don’t do cash drains. By joining the fediverse they get all that sweet content… For free. No hosting. No administration, just… Content. That’s the best deal ever for any data firm.

I do see plusses for meta so my take is: embrace? Yes. Extend? Yes. Extinguish? No visible upside, just downsides. So no.

This is no Microsoft in the 90s. Meta’s product is data. Not office suites or an OS. Why pay for data when the fediverse provides you that for free?

They want more. Not less.