I dunno, it delegitimised the usefulness of Twitter somewhat. Now you can’t be certain that the NASA account that announces an apocalyptic asteroid is real or not.

Good point. It certainly had the Streisand effect last time.

So you see, Your Honour, we didn’t sell Facebook any data - we just sold Facebook the ability to harvest our users data directly.

Then you missed out on the controversy of the admins changing stuff they didn’t like in the past then!

This will be no different.

I don’t use separate profiles (which I reckon are analogous to accounts) - but Firefox does have a feature called ‘Container tabs’ where you can isolate a sessions cookies into a container (default ones are labelled things like Shopping, Personal, Work, etc).

However, I think these are somewhat moot now as I think Firefox handles cookies differently in some way that went over my head - so I’m doing that thing where I post a semi incorrect answer to ensure someone shows up with the correct one.

Doesn’t Google fund Mozilla so it doesn’t get done for monopolising the market?

Besides Google’s intentions - the funding doesn’t influence how Firefox is developed.

Anecdotal experience is great.

I’ve never once come across a website that doesn’t work in Firefox and find Chrome and Edge significantly slower.

All those pesky staff, costing me money to produce value.

This is cool. Been getting tempted to replay Portal - think this’ll tip me over the edge.

Ok boomer. /s

The Fediverse is a niche product too, frankly.

And the disruption is the problem. The whole point of EEE is to choke growth of competition.

How is ActivityPub and the Fediverse insulated from this?

I don’t think any fediverse user is concerned about their data being taken. The concern comes from the obvious threat of embrace-extend-extinguish.

Meta’s intent is irrelevant; EEE is basically a given of a large corporation because it helps maximise profit.

https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

Have you tried allowing NSFW posts in your settings? Assuming lemmynsfw.com hasn’t been defederated from your instance, then the posts will then show up.

Which someone called out as guerilla marketing - cause apparently you Yanks have baked beans as a traditional 4th July food???

Presumably Facebook’s move into ActivityPub is to prevent or limit users moving to a decentralised alternative to Facebook?

Presumably Facebook’s move into ActivityPub is to prevent or limit users moving to a decentralised alternative to Facebook?

I mean, aren’t CEOs massive pay justified because they supposedly take on ultimate responsibility for the company?

If a company does something criminal under their watch, then even if they didn’t give the orders they have been criminally negligent - surely?

Now, mind, I don’t think that they should necessarily be the person punished most - the person’s down the chain more responsible should serve more time. But the person at the top shouldn’t get away free.

Regardless though I agree - fines with teeth are the most important thing.

I mean, aren’t CEOs massive pay justified because they supposedly take on ultimate responsibility for the company?

If a company does something criminal under their watch, then even if they didn’t give the orders they have been criminally negligent - surely?

Now, mind, I don’t think that they should necessarily be the person punished most - the person’s down the chain more responsible should serve more time. But the person at the top shouldn’t get away free.

Regardless though I agree - fines with teeth are the most important thing.

Will it actually be cyclical? Twitter and Reddit tearing up their user base has caused the Fediverse to grow. I find it unlikely that - if Twitter and Reddit continue to go the way of Facebook, with the majority of the core user base leaving as enshitification worsens - they go somewhere other than Mastodon or Lemmy.

People can shout about how lemmy/Mastodon aren’t user friendly - but with their growth they are massively improving and will continue to do so.

Having read through that, to me it sounds like the WMF have ‘enough’ money for 12-18 months ahead - which doesn’t sound unreasonable.

Though I do agree the emotional blackmail I’ve experienced in the past from their fundraising ads would very much suggest otherwise.