Spaceman Spiff

For better or for worse, the judicial process in this country moves very slowly. The higher the stakes, the slower it moves. This is quite certainly a high-stakes case.

These are some of the people who fought to create those problems, including fighting against democracy itself to ensure it.

It’s not the end results needed, but it is a step on the path needed.

Is there a great age to do that? Seems to me that the older you are, the less of your real life is lost.

The numbers are highly skewed because of the launch. A number of users are being paid to create content during the launch. A lot of the users are just checking out the hype. Some will stay, many won’t.

The numbers won’t really be useful or comparable until the dust settles. I give it a month.

You mean Musk? Because it seems that whatever insanity that Musk does, Spez wants to copy verbatim

And these are the people who stayed…

This really needs to be higher.

Running a Mastodon or Lemmy server is surprisingly cheap. With some specific tweaks and rules (esp. hosting images and video elsewhere), it can get even cheaper.

If your only goal is to break even, then it’s amazingly easy. Roughly 1 of every 20 users contributing $1/month. Adjust the numbers as you see fit.

Or a single, non-datamined ad at the top of the page.

Thank you, I hadn’t seen that yet. Assuming it’s true, that’s going to make their claims very hard to prove. It might even get dismissed.

The simple fact that they are former employees is meaningless. This is especially true in California (i.e. where Twitter HQ is, and presumably most of these employees) where non-competes are nearly completely unenforceable. Twitter will have to specifically show that it’s about their internal trade secrets, and not just the general experience they brought from their time at Twitter.

But right now, it’s entirely Twitter doing the talking. We haven’t seen yet how Meta will respond. I predict there is a 0% chance that Threads gets shutdown any time soon.

If you read the actual letter, it seems to paint a slightly different picture. They vaguely order Meta to stop using twitters trade secrets (whatever that may be), and serve notice to preserve communications. That’s fairly normal. But then they have an entire tangent about scraping Twitter’s publicly available data.

This could get very, very complicated. A lot of mobile apps are nothing more than a slightly customized mobile web browser, complete with web bugs. Others are native code with raw API/etc calls. Some are a mixture. And all of that kinda misses the point of the data that people want when they see these reports.

I think the main purpose of these (and other link modifiers) is to deny them the ad traffic

The nature of All is that it’s, well, all of what other users (on your instance) are discussing. Just like you could see when certain types of users were active on Reddit from r/All, or when a major event happened, so is the case here.

There are a few things you can do about it though - First, you can switch to your subscribed communities. You won’t see all of the randomness, but it should be limited to your areas of interest.

Second, you can block the major communities you want to avoid, most notably this one.

Third, and this is the hardest one, you can get a bunch of other, unrelated discussions started. That way, people aren’t discussing this. But I swear to God, if I see one more post about the fucking beans…

I suppose you could try another instance, or mass subscribing to new communities, but I suspect this is going to be the big topic for a while across the Lemmyverse.

Boost died for me at 7PM EDT on 6/30, along with the rest of Reddit. Apparently, Reddit was incompetent with disabling everything, so it (along with other 3rd party app) still worked for some people if you were not logged in.

I always get nervous when someone vaguely references their free speech. Aside from it being a poor argument against most censorship, it also doesn’t include any context. There is nothing in this post to suggest the removed comments were anything but spam and threats.

Now I do know a little bit about how Reddit mods operate, and I can fill in some gaps, but I have no reason to believe these were helpful or insightful comments that were just unpopular.

Growth is (generally) fine, as long as it’s decentralized and/or by trustworthy partners. I’m already uneasy about how big lemmy.world is comparatively, even though I’ve never seen anything to suggest any bad intent. Meta would be neither.

If we could keep Meta’s volume to a level where they cannot exert undue influence, I’d even be OK with them being part of it.

Coercion seems to be a big part of the enshittification process these days. Even once you complete stage 3 and piss everyone off, forcing them to stay against their will is part of the game.

This would force a lot of unwilling people to deal with Facebook, and long-term.

Twitter’s weak, not worth buying,

Everything has its price. But just like Musk overpaid for Twitter in the first place, he surely thinks it’s more valuable than anyone else in the market does.

I’m also sure that he values it at a price point that’s higher than it will cost Facebook to create a competitor.

That’s not how people work. If they start from Threads, very few will switch to a 3rd party client. And defederation will happen anyway once Meta gets control, it’s the whole point of EEE.

You do have a point though- Threads could be a threat to Mastodon even completely isolated. A lot of current Mastodon growth isn’t because of its draw as a product/platform; it’s simply people people leaving Twitter for something else. Threads will also be a something else, creating meaningful competition

I suppose that depends on what you consider “good” for Mastodon. I wouldn’t consider growth simply for the sake of growth to be a good thing. That’s stage 1 of enshittification. It also means a shitload of awful people joining, tons of mod work, etc.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for Mastodon and the fediverse becoming more accessible. I just think the growth needs to be for the right reasons.

Harder to find current and useful numbers than I expected.

According to https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount,

13,213,947 accounts

According to https://me.pcmag.com/en/social-media-1/17992/mastodon-sees-another-surge-in-active-users-following-twitters-rate-limiting,

2,055,502 active users monthly (3,797,695 active users half-year)