Oh fun. Who is Elon going to just haphazardly drop the ISS on top of?

This way they can spend more time rearranging the store so nobody knows where anything is, in turn making us walk past a bunch of stuff we don’t need in an effort to try and induce an impulse purchase!

Efficiency!

Never seen an explosion on the surface of a stellar remnant*? This year, you’ll have your chance

Nothing pseudo about it. This is the natural progression of capitalism.

Ad soon as they go public, their product is their share price. And even before then, since most growing private companies seek out private investment long before going public.

Federation isn’t a mess, it’s just… messier. And too many federated services do their damnedest to hide that they function differently, meaning people treat them like they’re perfect drop-in replacements.

It results in a lot of questions about “Why can’t I ____?” and answers of the “Because this doesn’t work that way” variety.

Like, look at Mastodon. It bends over backwards to hide the fact that it’s 10,000 different websites. The result is that people could not understand what the big deal was, nor why it wasn’t as easy to see everything from some other website as easily as they could from a single website that everyone was using.

This further led to centralization of the Mastodon ecosystem, which… I mean, at that point, you’re just abandoning the central concept.

The point of federation is to publicly share what you want to publicly share, not to have unfettered access to whatever you want to consume.

What they mean is “I use woefully malformed websites loaded up with all sorts of weird shit that eats ram on the regular, and somehow that’s my browser’s fault”

I think you may have confused capitalism with commerce.

Capitalism is about leveraging capital to generate wealth for the capital owner. The purist form of this is a subscription basedbsales model, where you always maintain ownership of assets, but everyone else pays you for access to them.

Capitalism is rent seeking. It will always devolve to this, given the opportunity, because this is the most efficient way of accruing more wealth, and that is what capitalism optimizes for.

Commerce exists separately from capitalism. It’s just a form of trade.

I genuinely don’t think so. Even though it’s technically federated, it’s still mostly under a thin veneer of an “App”, and hiding its true nature.

It’d be more like if Lemmy.world released its mobile app, that could connect to any other Lemmy instance, but that buried that functionality enough that 98% of people downloading it just ended up on LW.

That’s not really federation, and it’s definitely not doing anything to make people comfortable with the idea.

The fact that the largest is still so significantly bigger than the rest that this can be a concern shows that Lemmy still hasn’t come anywhere close to being where it needs or is supposed to be.

The network should not rest one the shoulders of one or two websites.

One of the nice things this time around is that Lemmy has really crystallized as an ecosystem. It’s missing some significant niches, but now people who need a working example, and can’t just envision it based off of the concept, can see it truly in action, instead of just seeing Leninist wankery.

Future waves should, hopefully, be stickier.

But at the same time, most of the people who played Fallout 3 never played 1 or 2. By the standards of the time, and for what the game presented itself as, it was pretty cool.

The ones that did picked… Discord.

Because a chatroom with the exact same issues they were blacking out Reddit over embracing was going to be a viable alternative to a community forum.

The thing is, servers don’t subscribe to anything, users do. If the end user is provided with a license, the server is not obligated to honour it, because the server didn’t agree to shit.

Creating a new instance only gets you access to content that users of your instance have subscribed to, and then mostly only content that comes in after subscription (I believe Lemmy primes the pump a bit on community subs, pulling in a handful of posts at the time of discovery, but discovery is done by users). So, there’s a limit on what you can scrape with your own private instance, and you’re taking a bit of a bet on which communities will yield what you’re looking for in the future.

It’d be easier and more reliable to just crawl the network and scrape it the old fashion way.

No, the user owns it, but by creating an account you provide Reddit a license to use that content in certain ways.

So, it’s yours, but you’ve agreed to let them do whatever they want with it as if it’s theirs, too.

The thing is, the license probably doesn’t mean a whole lot in that case because of the way content is shared on the Fediverse.

As you say, you actively send your content to other websites, and licenses need at least some degree of active acceptance. Including a license field in the metadata almost certainly does not meet any kind of legal threshold. It’s significantly weaker than the EULAs they everyone knows that nobody reads.

An instance isn’t required. It’s not like the current generation of generative AI wasn’t trained from web scrapings

It’s the whole concept, friend! Welcome to the social we, where independent social media sites cross-communicate