Oh man, I hadn’t heard of the DMA before. How exciting!

That’s why rather than trying to change people’s mind on the internet, I’ve resorted to just ridiculing them instead.

How depressing. Makes me wonder if that’s part of the reason I’m struggling to switch careers, because though I’m well qualified for my desired role - I don’t fit the stereotypical career history.

I mean, Lemmy has the exact same potential for issues with admins and mods - the key difference being that if those issues happen you can just up and off to another instance without having to abandon Lemmy altogether.

Have you tried Liftoff? Way better than Connect or Jerboa in my opinion.

I never see Liftoff recommended in these kinds of threads. It’s my favourite app so far out of Thunder, Connect, and Jerboa.

I actually find I scroll longer - the content is better ha.

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.

Thank god for Karma.

For anyone interested, high-meat diet was defined as >100g meat per day.

YOU. You’re the reason I had to endure that unending two day borefest! /jk

What a neat find.

Interesting. Apple & Amazon’s defense argument of ‘stop counterfeits’ essentially contains the subtext of ‘because it was expensive to us, not the consumer’ - considering if you received a counterfeit product it likely wasn’t a hassle to get Amazon to refund it (and presumably by that time the seller had jogged on, and Amazon couldn’t get their money back).

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.

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

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.