They’ve been hiding behind that excuse for a decade now. How far do they get to take it? How far do they get to go before we’re “allowed” to tell them to eat shit?

I like Waterfox. I started using it for the JXL support. But it’s significantly more memory-leaky than the current version of Firefox, and small FOSS teams seem to think the standard amount of RAM sold in laptops today is comically low and believe we’re all hauling 64+ GB or something.

Never have, never will.

So, here’s the funny thing about “never will”. It’s not a promise you can go back on. “Never will” means “forever won’t”.

Changing that language is a breech of trust. Getting all “nuanced” and weasel-wordy about it doesn’t change that.

Folks should start looking into whether the previous promise is legally binding in any way, and start preparing for a class action suit if it is. Because Mozilla’s better dead than it is as zombie smoke screen for this horse shit.

So, think through how this looks in the long run. Hell, just think about what this prioritizes.

You have five communities covering the same topic. There’s, what? 500? 1000? 2000 people active in them? Enough that there is a steady stream of posts and comments in all of them. They’re all housed on separate websites, and those websites maybe have different goals and different rules. So, people start lumping them together in aggregate feeds.

What does that look like? In practice, how do users treat this?

They treat it as if they’re all one community. As if they’re all in one place. All managed by one cohesive set of rules (or, realistically, most people treat all spaces as if none of them have rules, and then put up a stink when they’re met with the consequences of this).

Then, they start expecting to not see duplicates. So, which community’s posts do they see when there are multiples? Oh, that’s easy: all of them! They will start expecting comments to be merged. So, now you have people treating all of the communities not only as if they’re interchangeable, but as if they’re all one.

This is a backdoor to not just homogenization, but to quiet hostile takeovers of smaller communities by larger ones. All because users are too damn entitled to just pick one that most closely meets their needs and contribute to it.

We don’t need meta-communities. We need people to get over their fucking FOMO.

I can’t wait until someone shuts this prick up.

Hah!

Companies tried to make this a thing 20 years ago, and people just dropped the middle-men like hot potatoes. Bitly thinks it’ll be different this time because people have become used to using their service, but all of the pressures that had people using link shorteners in the first place have already fallen by the wayside.

This probably isn’t going to end well for them.

I mean, most of the communities are on .world, and if they’re not federating with .world, they’re just not going to show up in the majority of comment sections.

But also, HB is much more of a communal space than most of the big instances, and much more aligned on how they engage with off-site content. And as the fediverse grows horizontally, a significant part of it probably going to be through focused instances, rather than more general purpose sites. We have those covered already, and most of the people interested in something like that aren’t going to leave Reddit anytime soon.

They have what they want.

This means there will be more “we don’t want to host this kind of content” discussions over time, not fewer. The fediverse will look more patchwork, not less.

Sorry, the best we can do is always showing you subtitles by default, and not letting you permanently change that.

They have too many thoughts of too low a quality already. I’m not lending them any of mine.

Pick a smaller, focused website and focus on Local. Then you can ignore what’s going on elsewhere.

Lemmy isn’t a community, it’s a technology. And ActivityPub is madw with the goal of letting anyone and everyone use it and participate. Just like HTTP. Griping because “the wrong kind of people are showing up” is the kind of thing the wrong kind of people do.

You don’t get to build your gate in the public square.

Business people will do almost anything to eliminate wages

The stockmarket crashes, stunting millennial economic agency, and ushering in the last 16 years of radicalization and fascist acceptance.

Numbers may rebound, but users having kicked the tires on other options means they’re less tightly bound than they were before. It’s up to us to create a welcoming and interesting environment in the spaces that they’ve looked at to get them to shift their usage.

Recommendation engines aren’t the biggest issue. People will figure out how to fins what they want, and be generally happy with that, if looking is easy enough.

The big issue is that “join the fediverse” is a really, really shitty and incomplete recommendation. It’s like “join the blogosphere!”

And “join Mastodon” or “join Lemmy” is bad, too. It’s like asking them to “join Joomla”.

You need to point people to the specific website they should join, and that website has to already have what they’re looking for. People aren’t interested in building something.

They just want to consume.

“I don’t want AOLers on the web. The open internet should just be for us enlightened few”

JFC, * don’t want you pricks on the fedi. Can’t you go back to BBSes or something and wank each other there?

And you think Mark Cuban is funding what, exactly? A member’s co-op?

As usual, it’s computers’ fault.

Because Mastodon works like what it is - 10,000 websites selectively cross-posting to each other - while trying to pretend it’s like a single website. Meanwhile, BlueSky is a single website with the potential to look like it’s 10,000.

The internet became 4 websites and a search engime for a reason: most people apparently prefer it that way.

But people are not curling up in anything. They’re having third parties, that have their own political interests, feed them an image of reality.

This is wildly different from self-organized communities built around existing common interests or beliefs.

Facebook: Now an unmoderated space, except for if you report on what Facebook is saying. Or criticize the actual social hierarchy in any way.