What are the odds that the random website it gave me was my physics study guide in high school? The Hyperphysics website

Reddit har redan tillräckligt med problem med karmabottar när belöningen är meningslösa internetpoäng (vinster från kontoförsäljning ej inräknad). Om det är pengar som står på spel ser jag en helt botstyrd diskussionsklimat i Reddits framtid, liksom hur sökresultaterna på Google är SEO-optimerade botartiklar.

Det är tråkigt att sociala medier främjar "gör din online-aktivitet till ett jobb" som leder till alltför mer innehåll som skapas för inget annat syfte än att tjäna pengar.

I used to be interested in Tumblr joining the Fediverse, as someone who strongly prefers Tumblr's long-form microblogging to Twitter's format. Unfortunately, Tumblr has shown itself to be just like any money-hungry corporation at a smaller scale.

Tumblr is trying to push Tiktok-style short video Tumblr Live, which is filled with trackers, and they have plans to change their UX to be more like Twitter because Twitter is more profitable. Tumblr has the advantage of having a very low percentage of technical users, who accept these changes and don't find workarounds because they don't know what's going on.

With the direction Tumblr is going in, I'd defederate it if it ever starts federating. I want a Fediverse software that mirrors Tumblr's long-form microblogging, not Tumblr itself and definitely not its horrible community.

They had a good idea for monetization which was allowing users to buy advertising space for their own posts. The more you paid, the more users would see your post. Tumblr's own community ruined this by sending harassing comments and messages to the posts that were advertised with this feature.

Tumblr's biggest roadblock to monetization isn't their site structure or ideas, it's their community.

Därför säger jag att Sverige bör inte uppfylla ett enda av Erdogans krav. Han kommer bara kräva mer och mer tills det blir orimligt. Det är inte längre en stor säkerhetsrisk för oss att vara utanför NATO men jag oroar mig för hur desperat Uffe är för att Sverige går med i NATO under hans mandatperiod.

Jag föreslog det för /c/swedens ägare men han verkar som en som gillar att vara "top mod" av den svenska gemenskapen och såg inget fel med att allt koncentreras på en stor instans.

Under den senaste tiden har det dock varit en hackare som antagligen höll med mig om att stora instanser är lockande attack vectors och att folk inte ska lägga alla ägg i samma korg, eftersom lemmy.world blev attackerad av en XSS-injektion idag (GitHub-ärende).

This project has a lot of red flags for long-term sustainability. It needs to be forked and maintained by someone who cares about open-source and decentralization, not being a Discord competitor.

• The developers have no plans for financing the platform. In the FAQs, they claim that they managed to raise $2000 in donations, and that covers the costs for now, so they'll think about financing "later".
• For whatever reason, they chose to develop not just the messaging client but the messaging protocol, voice, file and media servers. That creates a lot of work for the small team to maintain.
• They don't want to implement federation, partially because they would have to rewrite their entire backend, but also because...
• They want to force people to use the revolt.chat instance. While Revolt can be self-hosted, the documentation actively discourages this and tries to obfuscate the self-hosting process as much as possible.
• The open-source code is also several versions behind revolt.chat so that revolt.chat can keep an advantage over self-hosted instances.
• The developers are university students who have never developed software professionally or managed a social media platform before.
• Combine all of this with the lack of financing plans and you will have a service that is bound to implode or become enshittified when the operating costs and platform administration become too taxing.

Revolt is a very impressive full-stack project for the developers' experience level, but it's not a good FLOSS Discord alternative.

On another note, why are there so many children in the article's comment section? Is that really the quality of the average Revolt user?

Archiving publicly available content is not illegal, otherwise sites like archive.org would have been taken down ages ago.

Users are where the content is, and most people don't have the energy to support a growing website that lacks content when another website that is full of content exists. Reddit's advantage was that people only needed one account on one website to see content related to diverse interests. Mirroring Reddit content (while being transparent about the fact that the content is mirrored) can help the Threadiverse gain this advantage and make it easier to retain users who will eventually contribute to the Threadiverse.

(In Reddit's early days, it was full of Digg crossposts too.)

The purpose of the bot is to make Reddit's content accessible without being forced to use a corporate platform. The value Reddit has, in my opinion, is the wealth of knowledge that is stored there. The content is often stale, but most of us have experienced finding a solution to a problem from a years-old Reddit thread. If you used Reddit for social interactions, this bot is not the solution for you.

Is the body of the post not appearing on certain apps or something? There is a summary that explains the bot's purpose in the post body.

This "anyone is free to join any instance, you can just avoid what you don't like" kind of thinking is perfectly reasonable in theory, but I think what OP wants to know is if this also holds up in practice. You could "defederate" Google and Microsoft by blocking emails from Gmail and Outlook addresses, but the reality is that the majority of people you will need to contact use those addresses. In most cases, your school/workplace will even make you use them for your organizational email. Yes, it is possible to avoid these companies and choose alternatives, but you'll be isolating yourself from the majority of the network.

The question is not if it will be possible to use the future corporate-owned Fediverse without Meta (of course it will), but if it will be feasible for the majority of users.

What "ages ago"?! It was purchased in 2014 and shut down in 2015!

Oh wait, that was 8 to 9 years ago.

I still have my Alien Blue installation after all these years and it's working for me too, probably because the number of users left is so low that it can operate under the new API limits. Unfortunately, Reddit could easily kill off Alien Blue by revoking its API key.

Explained in the post. A very common complaint I see in the migration discussions is "my hobby's community isn't on the Fediverse/doesn't have an active community like Reddit so I still have to visit Reddit". Unless they intend to participate in that Reddit community (which most users don't), they can bring their community's knowledge here instead of giving Reddit more traffic.