It's a way of controlling the software .... it would be a lot more difficult to make changes, even change settings or adjusting the software from time to time if it's constantly being updated every week.
I noticed this with Chrome ... a few years ago, there were lots of settings, hacks and changes and adjustments you could make to the browser to avoid tracking, advertising and all sorts of other things and to generally make it run faster. All that activity is lost now because Chrome literally updates itself every week.
I run Linux and my software doesn't update it self that much ... the only thing that updates itself every week is Chrome .... the entire package about 50-60MB every time, wipes itself and reinstalls a new version every time ... so any changes you had made to the software or any attempt at adjusting anything in the deep software is all lost and reset over and over again.
I agree ... but we should develop the federated social media in whatever way we can, however it turns out or looks like or even operates ... as long as we're using it, it's a good thing.
As long as corporate control is kept at bay and away from federated social media, we'll be OK.
If any corner of the federated social media starts to get infected with corporate control, then that disease will just grow and consume the whole system .... just like every other thing it destroyed before.
They would sell you the rope to hang yourself ... and market you the idea that it would be a good and popular thing to hang yourself with their Deluxe Hangman 3000 Super rope made from naturally sourced hemp.
My parents were born and raised in the wilderness of northern Ontario. We're indigenous so I don't think what was happening in the world in the 50s and 60s had much effect on my people who were still surviving in the wilderness away from any one else. It would have taken a full blown global nuclear war to have had an effect on my family from 1963 onwards.
Neat .... I have a few old friends who grew up riding bikes in the 60s and 70s. I was expecting a different sound as one of them described riding a Suzuki wankel as sounding more like turbine when going at speed and high revs.
What ever the orientation and engine design ... I'll always love having just a powerplant and two wheels .. nothing more free than that.
lol .... [EDIT: I'm talking about Indigenous Communities in northern Ontario in Canada - First Nations] ... this kind of negotiation sounds a lot like government meetings we saw as kids and teenagers in the 1980s and 1990s when our northern Ontario communities started speaking a lot more with a lot more expertise at the time. In the 60s and 70s the advocacy was just starting and our Chiefs couldn't say much because they didn't really know how to deal with government who held all the cards and rules, regulations and legalese to say and do whatever they wanted. It wasn't until the 80s and 90s that our people started having enough education, expertise and knowledge to be able to fight back against government with their own legal language.
EDIT: sorry for the confusion in commenting ... I was talking to and commenting with family and friends on other political events happening in my area with First Nation governments and our provincial government in Ontario.
Commodore 64 ... Same here .... but it was with a family friend that I went to visit often ... every time I saw them, we spent hours on their system. I remember sorting through all the ASCII characters to try to make a drawing on the screen ... hours and hours of tip tapping to find the right character for the flag of England I was drawing.
.... they can switch to stating it as a genocide
then repeat it over and over and over again ... just blast it everywhere all the time until the word just loses any meaning at all