I’m fully aware of that thanks, I was responding to:

The moment you get actual content creators to move off twitter and provide their content on mastodon, I’m deleting it too.

And saying from the perspective of a content creator, that’s an issue that’s hard to overlook. So mastodon won’t get to that point of having all the content creators if there isn’t something to help them share their content. I don’t know what the solution would be, maybe a separate feed with an algorithm that people can switch to if they want.

Edit: and the antisocial comments below is why mastodon will never take off with the larger population and therefore never really compete with Twitter, Threads, or BlueSky for content.

As somebody who produces content (with a full time job so not as often as I like) it’s so much harder to get engagement on mastodon without the algorithm tbh. I’m trying to get my name out there but engagement is slim to none compared to say, Instagram. I’m not on Twitter but both BlueSky and Mastodon have been a struggle. I don’t see myself devoting too much energy into them as far as posting content goes tbh.

There is a fediverse version of YouTube already called PeerTube. But people are finding it’s incredibly expensive to host video streaming servers and is a large part why it hasn’t really taken off.

Completely agree, I don’t know why their messaging is so shit compared to the GOP. They need more Dark Brandon memes but ones that outline their policies like this lol

This is great to see, the Biden admin has been doing a way better job than I thought they would going into the presidency. Still a long ways off from what I’d ideally want to see but moves like this are always welcome.

I was curious if this would get updated with the new charges added. Props for sticking with it, this is currently my favorite saved post lol

Came to the comments specifically to say this, this is not world news. I hope we can keep this from being so American centric like Reddit was, but the track record hasn’t been super great so far.

Interesting, thanks for the additional info!

are these editors orangutans?

The Librarian would be much more meticulous tyvm.

It was just another link aggregation site like Reddit, you didn’t miss too much tbh

I agree. I wasn’t implying he deserved to have his plan dropped. Only commenting on the use of the drone tech for inspecting people’s properties. I should’ve clarified I was not defending the insurance company’s decision to cancel his plan.

I agree with everything you said. I do hope if they see all the lukewarm/negative feedback and decide to rebrand again that they stick with the fish theme and icon. It’s cute and I like that all the microblog platforms have animals associated with them. Bird, Elephant, and now Fish. Elephant and Fish can be friends, Bird can fuck off.

Exactly, the only subreddit I still visit is for my local city/metroplex and even then I’ve set it up as an RSS feed so I don’t need to actually go to Reddit. Once enough neighbors are here that RSS feed will be getting cut most likely though. Or until Reddit shuts down the RSS feature.

Aaaand the Beehaw link for my fellow Beeple: Beehaw Linkage 🐝🤠

Oh I agree, I don’t think he should’ve been dropped especially since they’re not showing the photos they took meaning it’s likely not that bad. I was more so just referring to the use of drone tech for this type of inspection. I think that’s fine, as long as they’re giving proper notification like what’s required with human inspectors.

Absolutely agree, I don’t think they should be able to pull out like they did here. I could possibly see it if it was an extreme case of hoarding with an open flame and tons of flammable material or something like that, but there’s nothing to suggest that’s the case so the insurance company is in the wrong still. I was more referring to the use of the drone tech itself since this is the tech community.

Yeah, when Digg did the dumb thing all those years ago Reddit didn’t start eclipsing it for another two or three years. This feels very similar to that time tbh. Lemmy will get there, but I imagine it’ll take longer due to its fragmented nature scaring some non-techies so I’d guess four years and we’ll see numbers to rival Reddit. If you care about that, I kind of like the smaller communities, honestly.

Too bad there’s not a RemindMe Bot on Lemmy yet, this would be perfect for that lol

I get it, my sister got bugs in her home before from a hoarder neighbor and I’ve known somebody who had to move due to a fire caused by a different hoarder so I understand why they’d want/need to do this. But I feel like this falls under the inspection notification laws, at least my state has it where they need to inform you 24 hours before any inspection. So they should’ve sent out a notification 24 hours before flying the drone over and it would’ve been fine IMO. I’m not saying this guy was a hoarder either though, the insurance company wouldn’t release their photos so we can’t say if that’s actually the case one way or the other. But I’m fine with them using drones tbh.

Well that’s pretty fun. Thanks for sharing.

I want Star Citizen… The Star Citizen that was promised in the Kickstarter… Still waiting.

Cat mode.

Could you elaborate on this? lol

I’m pretty sure the games are still there but in HTML5 now, I remember logging in again a couple of years back and they were there at least.

Ugh. I’m so tired of these fascist fucks… I don’t even have anything to say anymore. It’s entirely expected behavior yet it still causes unrivaled disgust and revulsion every time they do something. I’m just so tired.

I don’t mind too much, I didn’t know TorGuard was blocking that traffic or logging American users but now I do. So I appreciate the article in that regard but the post should’ve been titled like “Reminder that TorGuard tracks American users” or something rather than being presented as new info imo.

Exactly, it’s really easy to access a lot of the streams. There’s little to zero technical knowledge needed so this law will likely be very effective against most viewers as much as that sucks.

Yes, correct. I’m not sure why you tried posting that as some sort of gotcha. It’s much easier for a person to have accessed one of these streams than to change DNS and put on a VPN. While that is very easy for us and people in our circles, I think you’re severely overestimating the technical prowess of the general population.

it will probably exclude a lot of people from access

Majority of the population I’d wager tbh, most of the general public is not tech-savvy enough to get around this.

Yeah, I’m confused why they’re saying that? Their Github is right here and you can setup your own instance with bridges just like you have.

What in the cartoonishly evil fuck?!

I can normally see from their perspective if I try real hard to ignore large swaths of reality, but I can’t for this. It’s our fucking drinking water.

Oh hey, another thing to send my sister who was considering moving to Montana in order to get out of Texas.

Incredibly fucked up, the kids in that state aren’t going to stand a chance getting accepted to universities out of state. Which is their plan, I guess. If the only schools that will accept them are in Montana and the only jobs that recognize those Montanan degrees are in Montana you have a full workforce from crib to grave.

Oh wow, this project looks like a really awesome management game! Thanks for sharing!

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Huh, I already own it without knowing it too O_o

K, you should. To make sure you’re not supporting a piece of shit by giving them your time, clicks, and views. But you do you if you’re okay supporting potential bigots.

It’s not even a high effort task, just find the name of the podcast and add “political leanings” or something similar in the web search. It’s the minimal effort required to be an informed consumer.

Man everything is political these days

Always has been.

I’m in a similar boat, past couple months have been rough on the finances with some unexpected expenses so I haven’t been able to donate yet but plan to after my situation settles down again. Such is life.

Good luck, see you around the fediverse 😄

hopefully it’ll be enough at least to keep a small part of the community safe

Even if there’s only one instance that’s not federated with them it would be enough for a community, not as active sure, but it would be enough. We already have hundreds not federating with them! We won’t have their user count but that’s okay, we don’t need billions of users like the centralized platforms to survive. We’ll be alright, take a breather and enjoy your stay in the fediverse free of corpos 😄

On that note, because there’s no ads/monetization we have to donate to support the server so make sure you’re helping to support the instances you use (if you’re able.)

As long as instances defederate from them we should be just fine. I already know Beehaw is defederating from them so we’re good here, and the instance of mastodon I’m on isn’t federating with them. So just look up your instance’s stance on the subject and join one that’s making the right call. Then you know the communities you’re building won’t get Zucked

I imagine that conservatives and right-wing personalities will carve out their own corner eventually.

They have, and most of those instances have been defederated from the rest of the fediverse because they breed a bunch of toxicity and hatred that spills into other instances if you don’t defederate from them. I don’t know of any conservative spaces that haven’t been defederated from most others tbh. I think sh.itjust.works still federates with a lot of them though, at least last I heard.

Okay. So we’ll do it again in less time because we have lessons to draw on. This version of Lemmy is already better than early Reddit for anybody that remembers.

Because this was posted to a Beehaw community which is not currently federated with lemmy.world

Also, this one is the original moderation team from the Reddit community.