If you can’t explain how the change makes the company more money, it isn’t enshitification.

Shame on you for not laundering the money through a book deal!

(Unless you’re elected President, in which case, bully for you!)

That’s why they believe there was fraud - they have first-hand knowledge.

Data scrapers don’t need an API, but you are still wrong - there is a Data API for Reddit that anyone can use. If you want to use it at a commercial scale, you just have to pay for it.

How exactly do you think ChatGPT was trained?

The implication is that social media is inherently not private, and it is extremely difficult to have social media benefit you without revealing personal details that can be aggregated to identify you uniquely, if not specifically.

Definitely question the services - that’s why I’m here. I have much more control over my data here than on a commercial, ad driven platform. There is nothing available through the API that isn’t available to logged in user, and remote instances don’t have access to any of my private profile data (the entirety of which is my email address).

It is fine if you don’t like Lemmy, but I challenge you to identify a social media platform that isn’t worse without being so closed that it loses the whole “social” part. If your goal is to have a blog with 4 followers, then you don’t want social media, you want a private Wordpress or wiki instance.

This is what is going to drive federated social media. Once marketing types can figure out that they won’t need to maintain 12 different social media presences and can host it on their own domain, they’ll gladly subsidize general purpose instances to make it easier for people to access their content.

Tell me what my email address is (the only private-ish info that Lemmy has about me). If you can do that, then I’ll think about worrying.

Big data already has enough info about me from social networks to guess my underwear size. The only way to be really safe is to not play.

So, like email?

Shockingly, the app used to be worse. Of course, now today their ad backend is down so the app won’t work at all.

You’re not going to have voting under a republican, and that’s what you get if you don’t vote democrat.

This is a fundamental flaw with plurality voting. Fix that and we can talk about third parties.

Nah, the lead Lemmy developers and admins of Lemmy.ml are unapologetic communists and China supporters.

So what you are saying is that Donald J Trump is going to come to the rescue of the oppressed Muslims people of Palestine? The same Trump whose Middle East peace plan was formulated by his Jewish son-in-law and basically said “give Israel what they want, and everything will be fine”?

Gotcha.

“Hey dad, the WiFi in my dorm room keeps cutting out”

“Have you gotten your Ethernet hooked up yet?”

“Hey dad, when I try to stream TV, it keeps buffering”

“Have you gotten your Ethernet hooked up yet?”

Someday they’ll get it.

I foresee one or both platforms implementing a bridge api, if they don’t outright switch to the other’s protocol.

The important part is normalizing federated social networks.

Never said devs shouldn’t care about money. If you aren’t having fun maintaining some code, stop. If it is commercially interesting, you will probably be contacted. Charge for bug bounties. Prioritize features based on compensation. Start a foundation. There are lots of business models for OSS, the author of this article talks about how this problem is already solved - just not for him.

OSS is not a business model. OSS is provably sustainable. Dude just wants it handed to him.

There are plenty of people who get paid to write open source software. The internet simply wouldn’t exist without OSS:

• Linux/Android
• Apache/Nginx
• MySQL/Postgres
• gcc/llvm

And that’s just scratching the surface.

That’s how they pay for Android. Just because you don’t pay a royalty doesn’t mean the software is free. (Even if it is libre)

Say you don’t understand the fediverse without saying you don’t understand the fediverse.

By these standards:

• The web is unsafe by default
• Email is unsafe by default

In all three cases, your safety is determined by the home you choose, and who/what you choose to interact with.