Long time FF user, things really aren’t looking good for Mozilla as a whole.

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The whole point of federated social media was to get out of walled gardens, yet here we are, building a walled garden.

To an extent yes, but I think it’s pretty easy to see why people are building their own closed communities on the Fediverse. That was the whole “selling point” of it at the beginning. “Not happy with Twitter? Just spin up your own fedi instance where you have your own rules and you can control who joins and who doesn’t”.

You know that it is comically easy to scrape stuff off of the fediverse, right?

Yes, so why would you argue in favour of making it even easier? Do you see why people aren’t too hot on that?

If you are worried about scraping, use Facebook. Facebook has teams of people who combat bot/scraper activity.

I don’t use Facebook for philosophical reasons and that’s why I’ve picked the Fediverse as a whole. I find it amazing we still need to re-explain that all the time.

We’re talking about Meta and Dorsey’s baby (yeah sure, he’s not there anymore but we all know what kind of company he backs) and you’re talking about startups?

Instead, if Bluesky grows, I can see people move away from it.

When has that ever worked?

This is how we wish to present ourselves as an alternative to corporate social media?

The whole idea in the first place was to NOT be corporate. It’s pretty understandable that when those corporations come knocking pretending to be nice, a lot of people want nothing to do with it.

I keep seeing this argument but like… no. It doesn’t scrap stuff, it merely facilitates scrapping. Come on, can we stop pretending for a second.

“I didn’t kill him, the bullet, gravity and velocity did.”

There is a metaphor about Britain tucked in there.

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“Hey israel, I need an excuse to start a war with Iran and no one is buying the nuke thing anymore, got an idea?”

“Sure, you got a ship?”

“Yeah, why?”

“Open a history book, I’ll get to work.”

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It’s true. Counterpoint: if you move places a lot (let’s say if you happen to belong to a generation of people who will never be able to afford a place - which is a huge amount of people), your library needs to fit into a small tablet sized reader. Can store 5000 books, I do not have the means to move that amount of books every time my landlord decides to make my rent more unaffordable. An ereader fits in my pocket.

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The people who have spent time telling is that Ukraine is fighting for its nation against an invader and how its good are having a real hard time reconciling with reality as evidenced by the amount of down votes.

If anything, this Hamas operation revealed you fucks’ true faces. It was never about “liberty of the people” “self governance” or “respect of territorial integrity”. It’s just that you’re bloodthirsty monsters desperate to have a side to pick and finding excuses for why you always align with the largest imperial power in the world.

That’s so they can stop supporting phones earlier (my theory). By saying “you got three major os versions” they make it look more impressive than “you got 2 new features, and 6 cosmetic tweaks”.

But 3 major versions? What more could you expect from a poor small bean startup??? They’re already being so generous!!!

And yes I know the pixel 8 is getting more years of support. Finally. Anything to get people to buy it, because otherwise Google has a lot of useless bricks in its warehouses.

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