I think this may depend on the instance you’re on. The “trans” spam bot hit up my sister’s account but she’s on fedia/mbin. I haven’t noticed the other abuses per se to be like. Rampant or anything.

But I also don’t check DM’s.

This is not a win for gamers. That spin is wild.

No thanks.

Can I ask what you’re planning to use block chain for? To verify each account? Or to federate instances?

I’ve spent more money on retro gaming handhelds and gotten less for it. Looks pretty good.

I think they were being facetious.

The point was that alienating their main player base this way will lead to the demise of companies that use kernel level anti-cheat and those companies will deserve it because they did it to themselves.

Well. This is good news.

You are assuming that A. Google isn’t scraping data for their own AI, B. that these companies will create their own instances (which opens them up to a certain amount of liability and requires them to retain moderation/admin and maintenance staff (which costs money)). C. That the enshittification of corporate owned versions of Lemmy and the fediverse won’t push people to Lemmy sooner or later.

A fourth assumption you made is that the Threads federation push was made in order to do anything other than create hype around a feature that might draw people away from places like the fediverse. I kind of assumed (maybe I’m wrong) that they were offering it as a way to have all the benefits of federation - namely the assumption of FOSS adjacent services, but with all the “benefits” of corporate social media.

The truth is that it’s likely that Meta absolutely has had a detrimental effect on the fediverse because it has things that pull users away from the fediverse. Instagram has content. For days. And because the fediverse is small (shrinking as you say), and because it doesn’t have an algorithm that pushes certain content to certain users, Meta and the other services that have analogs in the fediverse continue to be popular.

A lot of this is because the fediverse still hasn’t figured out a way to be profitable to content creators and we no longer live in the early 2000’s of YouTube etc where content creation for free was popular.

I’d argue that a lot of the appeal of the fediverse is organic conversation and communication. The popularity of that as a whole is declining because of algorithms that tickle just the right feel good chemicals in our brains.

As for your comment about these corps investing in the fediverse? The only reason for them to do that is if they can make money off it. The major money making scheme the internet is relying on is ad service. So there’s a catch 22 here. I would rather donate money to fedi services than have the fediverse infested with ads.

I don’t want that. Part of the fediverse’s appeal for me is that people aren’t constant trying to sell me things on it.

While I can understand certain communities having "suggest a (game, service, product), for the most part I really don’t want to basically invite corps to think this is free real estate. And that’s exactly what I think this would do.

It’s seems like it would invite corps to basically astroturf Lemmy and the fediverse the way they’re doing with bot armies over on reddit.

Look at him trying to keep the wave going.

Yeah pretty much. Display port is just as good but there aren’t really a lot of TVs on the market with display port because the people who own the HDMI standard are in that industry.

I seem to recall that a guy did do this once with a Google chromecast but he was a professional IT security of some kind, and that was years ago.

I seem to recall that same year reading about a network engineer who used their homes nest thermostat to stop his wife from sleepwalking to the kitchen to eat and ruining her diet.

It’s not that I think it can’t be done, it’s just that I think it might require you to either spoof responses or change the the firmware in some way.

This is only a recommendation. The reason it’s dangerous is that now it’s up to states to decide to vaccinate babies with this vaccine and the vaccine has eliminated the cancer often caused by such an infection by something like 90%.

If you are an expectant mother please advocate for your children. Even if you’re not, we should all be advocating for our state legislatures to continue this recommendation.

Lol. My current party isn’t (it’s just two people), but my previous party definitely was (13 people).

I’ll mess with it one day. Just gotta remember to poke around with it.

I use Voyager (and boost, and sync before that). I like Voyager (now that I’m used to it), but I wish the medium sized thumbnails in compact mode were slightly larger.

That’s not the question you asked.

Windows 1.0 launched in 1985. Which was 40 years ago.

The thermostats should still function based on the blurb. They’re just no longer connected to the Internet. So you can’t change anything or set any automations that rely on a network connection.

So. On the one hand, it’s valid and perfectly alright to lament the fact that there were good parts of a reddit community that you miss. That’s perfectly normal. Reddit wasn’t all bad.

But on the other hand, it’s important to recognize that some of the downsides you mentioned are going to be a problem in any community large enough to reach such critical mass.

Someone else here mentioned that Lemmy will likely get there in the end. But the problems with that community on reddit are kind of endemic to communities as a whole. So you have to decide how much good is worth taking the bad.

On the third hand, I also miss some communities on reddit, and I think everyone who’s left does to some extent. I am happy that people feel comfortable enough here to really really about what they miss and even to commiserate as we reminisce a little bit. It’s this kind of thing that gets people talking and sharing ideas.