I know a big sticking point for many people is that all code on GitHub feeds into CoPilot.
I don’t understand how this would help anyone who’s still stuck on GitHub for whatever reason to be able to escape GitHub. GitHub likely won’t support this. I guess it depends on why someone is ‘forced’ to use GitHub still. I’ve seen different reasons mentioned.
Isn’t the official repo for Lemmy on GitHub?
I don’t know about “decentralized” as centralization is a driving influence in cost of marketing. Amazon is efficient because of every step of the way is centralized, from store front to the warehousing to the shipping. Sure there are some products that don’t ship by Amazon, but they’re usually at a cost disadvantage unless they’re unique. Plus payment processing is centralized and allows for consumer protections which wouldn’t be possible with something like crypto.
Amazon could be dethroned, but it would require very specific circumstances and unlikely wouldn’t be by a privacy minded entity.
Amazon is cheap because personal data subsidizes a lot. If they couldn’t sell targeted sponsor ads to you, they’d make that revenue up elsewhere.
https://lemmy-world.statuspage.io/
Probably not. They’re getting hit with heavy usage right now so are likely throttling everyone and you just hit that cap.
I mean, you’re not wrong. The “problems” of Mastodon are features. Avoiding an algorithm to suggest toots was done on purpose. It’s why likes are simply for the author, not really for others. Boost promote toots by increasing exposure.
Likes are not the same as likes on Twitter, nor should they really matter. The intent of Mastodon is not to promote some toots over others due to popularity which many times just creates feedback loops. It’s why you would see repetitive content on Reddit and if Lemmy gets remotely the same size, it’ll suffer the same way. Algorithms are problematic in that they tend to get abused.
It’s technically a bit worse than that. It can affect you on lemmy.ml if lemmy.world is seized.
I mean, that’s not even remotely related to the scenario in the article. It wasn’t even related to the server. The admin was raided for an entirely different reason.
Yes, if you commit crimes you should be held responsible. No one said otherwise at any point. So, I guess thanks captain obvious?
Did you read the article? Its not just about hardware being taken and there’s things that can be done to even minimize that issue.
Switch to Kbin. You can already block by domain on there.
Wiremin appears to be more for a chatroom with defined participants. Not really a public forum type of app. If it is supposed to be, it would suffer drastically from a growing userbase. It looks more like a messaging system with defined recipients.
You are describing a decentralized system. But you aren’t describing a required function of decentralization.
You should have spent time reading the rules of your server before spending time with writing your content. It doesn’t matter if others care or not. Someone has a wall and is letting you write on it. It’s their wall, not yours. They can make their own rules. You are free to have your own wall.
They’re literally saying it’s not censorship. If a publisher doesn’t publish your book, is it censorship? No. Folks aren’t forced to host your content if they don’t want to.
But it literally is.
I mean, they’re practically interchangeable words. They mean fairly the same thing. Polycentric is decentralized. You can use that word if it works for you, but decentralized is still correct.
The developers already said they plan on Threads being multi-instance. Preemptively doing anything is just stupid. It might not even do anything.
Aaaaand the argument is moot.
https://fortune.com/2023/07/06/mark-zuckerberg-replacing-metaverse-with-twitter-killer-threads-fediverse/ (may be paywalled, it worked for me once, but visiting again it was blocked)
Threads isn’t going to be one instance. Threads is gonna be like Kbin or Lemmy. Users can set up their own instances. So you can’t simply defederate from Threads as a whole. I’m sure there will be some primary instances one can defederate from, but this preemptive motion to do so seems misguided and may not even be possible as we don’t truly know what the domain will end up being.
I’ve responded to this article multiple times. It’s actually not that great an argument. XMPP would have suffered regardless of Google temporarily joining them. Google being compatible for a short time isn’t why it failed and Google changing away wasn’t to destroy XMPP. It was because Google was failing at chat too. It was lagging behind Apple’s messenger and even for a short bit to BlackBerry messenger. That’s why Google’s history of chat is a big mess. It kept trying new things and failing. XMPP didn’t die because of Google. It died because of competition.
Federating would do more than defederating. The whole argument is that if they stop federating, they’ll destroy the fediverse. People will leave activitypub-native instances to go to threads instead because they can’t see Threads.
It’s actually more important to show people a better way. Granted, if it’s toxic, and we just defederate anyway, then it’s already not a threat that most of the fediverse would change sides.
The EEE approach is not about whether any particular instance federates or not. Threads would need to create enough value to even make people want to care about them breaking protocol. And more to the point, we are a different culture than back then.
The only threat would be if you’re worried Threads would provide substantially better content than here. It’d need to be good enough that a threat of them defederating others is more dangerous. If people made that argument, maybe I could see their point. But so far, I think the bigger threat is the content itself being toxic and garbage. I say let Threads mature a bit and let’s see where it stands if and when they do federate (and if we even have to worry about seeing it on Lemmy or Kbin).
And let’s be honest, Google didn’t kill XMPP just out of EEE. They did so by simply making such a monolithic platform that “everyone” had an account already so why create a separate account for messaging by itself. Pretending Google Talk existed in a vacuum is deceptive at best and objectively wrong at worst. I have a Google account and it’s causing me such agonizing pain that it’s taking me so long to extract myself out of it. It’ll likely take me months or even years to fully remove myself and that’s not even counting that I then need to migrate out of Microsoft too.
Ah, well, I don’t think there’s any officially hosted versions on GitLab. I guess it depends on why they chose GitHub, but maybe some attempts can be made to have them migrate if given enough reason that they agree with. So any clones on those other sites would need to pull in from GitHub on their own accord. And unfortunately any MRs into them would need to be replicated on GitHub which I’m assuming is the reason you ask and therefore likely won’t be happy with the answer.