Lemmy feels like the first real alternative to reddit. Everything else was a ghost town or had no moderation so only banned subs would move. This recent exodus won’t kill reddit but it created a viable reddit alternative for when they inevitably do something worse. Reddit ran as a number 2 to digg for years before digg screwed up. I can see the same happening here.

I live in Houston. Probably the least pedestrian friendly city on earth. I would still walk over paying that.

Speaking of which whatever happened to FuchsiaOS? Did they kill it? It would be a shame if they did. I was interested in it because it was an open source OS that wasn’t Linux or bsd based.

2.9 miles isn’t even far. You could just walk.

If google gets their way websites will be able to block OS’s and browsers. But if enough people switch to Firefox they won’t be able to push this change as easily. Google Chrome has about an 80% marketshare in the browser market and most of the alternatives are forks of Chromium which google controls. If this doesn’t change Google will be able to do anything they want.

Flatpacks give me the least trouble so I guess those. All though appimages seem alright too. Snaps however seem to never want to install. I like the idea of easy one click installs for every distro but I think we are a few years away from that.

If you are not using Firefox now is a good time to start.

More tech to change things in post. I feel like Hollywood is relying too much of this kind of technology to fix poor planning and writing. Look at all reports about marvel films being radically changed in post. You can tell when a film is a patch job.

That’s why I use matrix. No phone number.

Yeah your a mean fascist if you don’t like Instagram. Lmao.

I agree. I don’t really consider social media “technology” anymore. I mean yeah it uses technology but so does everything else. I don’t think technology is the right community for this kind of post. There should be an enshittification community where we can see all the Twitter, reddit, and meta stuff.

In fact a lot of “technology” companies are just regular companies with an app. Netflix is a media company, Uber is a taxi company that somehow skirted regulators, and Airbnb is a hotel company that also skirted regulators.

NASA has a mastadon account on social.beaccom.org and post pretty frequently.

This is why Jet Li turned down the Matrix. He didn’t want his Kung Fu skills to be scanned and preserved in the WB archive.

Meta makes a lot of contributions to open source. Jest and pytorch are two tools they have made open source. They have their eyes on killing Twitter and connecting to one of the biggest alternatives is a smart move, but eventually if all goes well they won’t need mastadon anymore. That’s the concern I think. Once threads is big enough they will quietly remove activitypub support and screw up mastadon in the process.

If I had to guess the Zuck to him with their powers combined they could kill Twitter. I can see the concern after what happened with XMPP but a social media site like mastadon doesn’t need to communicate with other sites. Mastadon can just defedirate with threads if they don’t like something that they do. I mean lemmy and mastadon don’t really communicate together very often and exist on their own.