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From the infamous AMA: We’ll continue to be profit-driven until profits arrive. Unlike some of the 3P apps, we are not profitable.

To me it sounds that he is envious that 3rd party apps were profitable and Reddit isn’t.

Antichess, the truly anarchic variant, where en passant is really forced

And, the timing of their supposed interest in the Fediverse is after the second notable exodus from a major social network. Meta sees more people

Project 92 has been on the news since at least May 20, a couple of weeks before the Reddit drama, and it seems that they have been testing it with influencers for months.

I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment about Facebook, but I think some of these takes fail to get the whole picture. Facebook isn’t interested in us, Fediverse users and our communities. As you said, they only care about money. And the money today is in creating a competitor to Twitter. Mastodon happens to have an open-source Twitter clone, and Facebook can use it without spending much in coding. Also, the federation aspect allows advertisers to defederate from problematic communities, which is why they’re leaving Twitter.

Meta sees more people & more engagement here which equates to more potential profits on their end.

According to the article that I linked, every Instagram account will carry to a Project 92 account. There are like 2 million Lemmy accounts, and a few millions more of Mastodon accounts. Instagram has billions, with b, of accounts. We are anecdotal in comparison with the engagement that the migrated Instagram users will create.

We are not Meta’s target. We are the ones that will suffer their consequences.

What a sad day. Reddit is doing PiPi in their pampers.

That doesn’t make any sense. Why would Facebook be interested in buying existing instances? The code is open source, they can use it without asking permission. Their server infrastructure is way better that anything we have. And our user base is ridiculously small compared to theirs (Instagram has more than one billion users!). The danger of Facebook taking over the Fediverse is not that they buy instances, it’s that they Embrace-Extend-Extinguish us.

That being said, I do think that we “are using the Fediverse wrong”, and that we should gravitate to smaller instances of like-minded people. This would make much easier instance-level moderation and server load, and de-federation would make more sense. Now there are a bunch of generalist big instance (kbin.social, lemmy.ml, lemmy.world, beehaw.org, sh.itjust.works) that are federating/defederating for reasons that aren’t completely transparent to their users. But if you have, say, a small doglove.rs instance and a small catlove.rs instance, they can defederate themselves without impacting users that are not involved in the beef amongst the instances.

The person above wasn’t talking about that. They were talking about fragmentation. For example, I am subscribed to three different Formula 1 communities/magazines, one in kbin.social, another in lemmy.ml and another in lemmy.world. There is no difference between them, other than the site they’re hosted. I know that I can participate in all of them, and I have participated in all three. But I’m still unsure how should I participate. If I find an interesting article, should I post it only to one of them? To which one? Or crosspost it to all? (btw, lemmy has an option to crosspost, but kbin doesn’t) And if the topic is posted in several communities, should I comment in one or in all of them? Maybe should I encourage people to migrate to the larger community? Or maybe we could solve the problem by creating a unified community!

Only the landed gentry is allowed to use the medieval spelling

“Explain how Google would impact XMPP servers if they defederate from Google Talk”

Spoiler: They can

[Google got] into open source software and it seems those survived the experience

Not really. Google is responsible for the open source browser Chromium, which is the base for Google Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, etc. They dominate the browser market, and they use their position to implement features outside the web standard. Their competitors (mainly Firefox) are not able to implement the non-standard features, driving them out of the market. Classic Embrace-Extend-Extinguish.

Google got into the Linux space

Technically, both Android and Chromebok are Linux-based. But Google has done everything possible so that they aren’t part of the “Linux space”, to the point that Android uses a fork of version 3.x of the Linux kernel (regular Linux is now at version 6.x).

as a response to Large Language Models scrapping the site.

This might be Reddit’s argument, but it doesn’t hold much weight. You don’t need API access to read a website, a scrapper does that. The 3rd party apps were always the target, since 1) they attack their ad revenue and 2) show the lacks of the official app, which is a liability before the IPO. Also, don’t forget that spez went to the media with the “threats” of Selig before he made any public comment.

But they won’t be capturing new users from the Fediverse, they will capture them from Facebook and Instagram, and since this is mainly a Twitter competitor, also from Twitter.

Off-topic, but I love ntfy! It’s super easy to use to send notifications from a script or program anywhere

“free speech absolutist”

That’s like saying Facebook and Twitter should come to a concensus on how to name stuff

Twitter changed Favs to Likes to copy Facebook

I analyzed the image and this is what I see. Open an appropriate link below and explore the position yourself or with the engine:

White to play: chess.com | lichess.org

My solution:

Hints: piece >!Rook!<, move: >!Rxb8+!<
Evaluation: >!White has mate in 19!<
Best continuation: >!1. Rxb8+ Kd7 2. Rxa8 Kc6 3. Rxa7 Kb6 4. Bd4+ c5 5. Bxc5+ Kxc5 6. Rxe7 g6 7. Re6 Kc4 8. Rxg6 Kc5 9. Rg5+ Kb6 10. a4 Kb7 11. Rb5+ Kc6 12. c4 Kd7 13. a5 Ke6 14. a6 Ke7 15. a7 Kd7 16. a8=Q Ke6 17. Qa6+ Kd7 18. Rb7+ Kc8 19. Qa8#!<

^(I’m a human. I hope some day we’ll have a chessvision-ai-bot here)