lambalicious @ lambalicious @lemmy.sdf.org

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Oh get off their high horse. I know of no instance that is like Ecosia where your activity gets to, dunno, plant a tree or something. If you say online spaces somehow physically fight fascism, show me how many homeless people is your instance physically sheltering or helping immigrate to a better country, and we'll talk.

Like, I love this kind of web space as much as the next person; but I don't fancy myself in the emperor's clothes.

This is one of the reasons why I'd love to see a more expanded method of reacting to content rather than simply upvoting or dowvoting; something like, say, user-side thread or post tagging, with things like "verified", "clickbait", and mood reacts like "happy" vs "sad", and usefulness reacts like "solved, thanks" vs "closed as duplicate", etc. We need more and better axes.

(Axises? Axeses? Asses?)

Like, of course; tho any sort of "accounting" should IMO start from the base that the intent of this entire thing is to publicly share public information.

Wow! Incredible! Ten whole seconds?

Just enough time for me consider thinking if I go for a coffee in the meantime.

Not them but yes but it's not a feature of the system, it's a failure of the humans.

"Chile sends its regards"

To spread the message and have funformative talks about it, of course.

Come on, lemmy is not only cats and linux!

Very fair point.

We should seize the means of ISOing from the burgueoise!

, but I’ll die on the hill that MM-DD-YYYY is better than DD-MM-YYYY

Then perish.

!iso8601@lemmy.sdf.org gang, rise up

Server had been down for about two days but just got it crossposted there, thanks!

Yes please do.

unexpectedly

From the BBC? Wow!

I can mentally hear exactly why the inflation is rising in the voice of good ol' dear David Attenborough.

I don't really buy it tbh. People nowadays take pride in using stuff without understanding it. From Cookie Clicker, to even something as dangerous as car driving. In theory, they should be salivating at the Fediverse.

Hey at least you'll never run out of ich_iel!

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...what, are you looking for instances for bots?

Everyone gets signed up to that initially and those who want to transfer to another instance afterwards can.

That's the second big problem hidden in this model: account migration doesn't currently work (nor do I know of an ETA for feature release).

Not to mention the first problem: this heavily promotes centralization which is what caused this whole mess in the first place.

I don't get how people get hung on choosing a server when people have been chosing a starter Pokémon since 1998 without any major issues. And you get just about the "same" amount of practical info.

Really, what tiktok does to a generation...

Technically the only way you can vet, is by having root access to their servers and law officer level access to their documents.

Failing that, I can think of four baseline conditions to venture that a given product "shouldn't" enshittify, or that at least the utility of the project is recoverable (or forkable) if it does:

Req 0: Copiability. The software actually provides a full offline (or local) service. There's no way (that I know of!) to enshittify something that can live fully independently from its "mothership".

Req 1: "Letter and Spirit". License has to be Free Software (not just "Open Source") with all the liberties that come with it. (I assume in the future, an exception might be made to allow for New Ethical licenses that would be not FOSS as per the current definition)

Req 2: Reproducibility. Someone else has to have verified that using the source release builds the whole product (at most excepting "assets" like logos). This is usually verified empirically by someone getting to run and maintain a competing instance.

Req 3: No bite hand. The provider must have not used legal measures to exercise violence or restrictions against users of the product (be those consumers or devs). This includes eg.: using the DMCA to punish reviews, or punish implementation of req 2.

If a combination of provider and product completes those four requirements, I feel relatively well assured that the product can't reasonably enshittify, or at least that if it were to happen, there will be enough advance notice and devel momentum that the value of the product can be recovered from it.

Oh i see. I thought there was more to it – but I guess it's just Java being horrible as usual.

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