Next up: Cox bans torrenting traffic and known VPN IP ranges.

Most are missing the point. You’re right, running AA or CP is akin to just using your phone with a vent mount, albeit arguably safer. The privacy issues come with things like OnStar and similar services that connect back to the manufacturer. As someone already pointed out it doesn’t sound like there’s a way to remove OnStar, but some others might be removeable, or not available in cheaper models.

Ah, makes sense. Thanks.

Not really sure what you’re getting at here. I’ve had a network outage for the past 2 days and was able to watch stuff on my local NAS just fine. I haven’t done anything special to make it do that.

Title of this post is a bit misleading. You’re suggesting the article spells out how Disney’s, and other companies’, rabid protection of its IP is a Bad Thing, when it’s really more of a history and primer on what’s changed with Steamboat Willie entering PD.

That TLD is pretty awesome!

No. If you don’t like what Elon’s doing with Xitter, STOP GOING THERE.

It’s simple. It’s a social network. If people don’t use it, it fails. Who cares if some, or even a lot, of people use it. You don’t have to.

I promise you, he doesn’t care what you or I think. If Xitter fails and is forced to shutter, he’ll move on to the next exercise in ego inflation.

Solid point. Kind of goes back to what we want out of our social media. If we want to follow the celebrities we like, we’re probably stuck with Xitter & other data harvesters (outside of the enlightened folks like Mr. Fry). I honestly use Mastodon slightly more than I use(ed) Twitter. Barely more than not at all.

The problem is that #10 in this article is why 99% of people won’t leave Xitter for Mastodon. Most of the people with lots of followers on X aren’t on Mastodon. It’s really that simple. Some “influencers” need to be convinced to open up Mastodon accounts and advertise exclusive content on there for their followers. Until then, we will be stuck with a handful of journalists, Flipboard, and Stephen Fry.

It’s succinct. I’ll give you that!

Thank you! All the effort people are making to make Lemmy like Reddit. With the bots reposting content here to “seed communities.” FFS, why did these people leave, then!? Same with, “but I want to see all the content on Threads!” Then join Threads. Lemmy is Lemmy. Please let it stay that way. People lose sight of the main point of the protest: the community of users. Those folks moved here and elsewhere. It’s those people, not bots or astroturfing communities, who are going to make Lemmy/Squabbles/Spyke/etc. great places.

Currently Reddit has significantly more users than Lemmy. Has that stopped people from signing up to Lemmy? Twitter has has significantly more users than Mastodon since forever. Has that stopped people from signing up for Mastodon? Has it killed Mastodon?

The common error I see in all the “Threads will kill the Fediverse” mania is that it assumes the same people who sign up for Threads would have otherwise signed up for Mastodon/Lemmy/Kdin/etc. 99.9% of them probably never would have. They want something that’s easy and just works; and they’re willing to let a company profit off their data to have it.

The EEE argument is a red herring at the moment. Sure, in the future, Meta and others could get clever in ways we can’t imagine right now, but currently it’s a “sky is falling” kind of threat. As it currently stands, the path from Threads launching to “Meta killing the fediverse” has all the logical progression as the Underpants Gnomes.

It’s kind of a double-edged sword, though. Sure the better advice would be to join a smaller instance, or spin up your own. Most people can’t spin up their own instance. As for smaller instances, who’s to say that smaller instance ris still going to be here 1, 2, 5 years from now? The 2 largest are more likely to stick around. Not saying you’re wrong, just that there are lots of unknowns.

Personally, I don’t think Lemmy folks should be working to get people to leave Reddit. Most people I see on Lemmy love the fact that it’s a small community like Reddit used to be. Why work to destroy that? If people want to leave Reddit, Lemmy will be here, and they’re probably going to add to the community. To me the barrier to entry of understanding how lemmy/Fediverse works is kind of helping to keep the community from growing to Reddit sizes with all the annoyances that entails.