I don’t know if Leo cares about that anymore. He’s been saying he’s done with Twitter for a few weeks at least.
At least a year.
But in a recent TWIT (2 weeks ago maybe), all of the guest panelists admitted that they were all still maintaining their followings on Twitter and hopeful that they could move to Threads.
It’s all just whores being whores, which is what Elon is relying on.
I’d sign up to Titter.
The US (which is where I assume you are), has the second largest one in the world in current operation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_County_Pumped_Storage_Station
Short answer, it scales fine.
Now you need to find someone to pay for it.
The Back to the Future trilogy is good for a re-view.
Thoughts about Grace’s sacrifical acts:
I think there’s a big difference between sacrificing yourself for unknown others, when someone else could potentially do it (or you can convince yourself of that) and knowing that someone you know and care about personally WILL DIE, and NO ONE else can do anything about it.
Grace was always a good person, it’s the personal stakes that changed.
Yes, but you would be seeing ALL posts from everywhere your instance knows about.
I kind of like the idea of being on lemmy.world, filtering to say aussie.zone and getting it to show me local.
Or being able to simply get a list of every community on another instance.
These are cool ideas.
In progress as I cooked.
The post image is the final product
The annoying thing to me is that it’s taken a further 13 years to reach a point where another social network is feasible.
I’m not saying there haven’t been attempts like diaspora and the early mastadon etc, but now we’re actually reaching a critical mass of participants where a move is worth it.
The same is true of Signal. I’ve been using it for nearly a decade, but it’s only in the last 2 years that people haven’t rolled their eyes when I mention it’s my preferred comms app.
I mean yes, but that’s not a federation problem.
To completely strawman AND slippery slope what you’re saying:
As a car safety pro, who primarily deals with car crashes:
STOP
TOWING
TRAILERS
Agreed, dangerous, I don’t want numpties doing it.
But it’s a large part of why I have a car.
I want to be clear, that I disagree with his “federation is stupid” point, but email has problems right now.
Theoretically it’s federated, theoretically you can spin up your own mail server and self host.
But even if you do that absolutely perfectly (SPF, DKIM, DMARC etc), you can falsely end up on spam list, that effectively block delivery of your email to large segments of the network for days if not weeks.
Whilst theoretically federated, email falls under the broad dominion of google, microsoft and a couple of other large players.
I never owned a console, but I distinctly remember playing this, so there must have been a PC port some time in the early 90s.
Classic game.
Individual instance owners can do literally whatever they like.
Put up ads.
Charge a subscription.
Anything.
Let’s say instance A is hosting a community that everyone on instances B and C love to participate in.
But A want’s to earn some money so they start charging access to their local users.
This doesn’t effect users of B and C at all, because the data is federated.
The owner of A get’s grumpy and defederates B and C.
The users on B and C find somewhere else, either on one of their instances, or on D.
Everybody wins.
I’m not goin to shit on Briar, I hope they build out their dream.
It’s fundamentally not as easy to use.
My Grandma already has a phone with a full addressbook.
If she’s told to install Signal, it’ll just work as a drop in replacement for iMessage.
Briar meanwhile suggests sharing your contact info using another such as signal: https://briarproject.org/quick-start/#:~:text=When you choose “Add contact at a distance”%2C Briar,choose a nickname for them.
Briar is chasing different goals.
That single point of failure is to facilitate ease of use, with minimal reduction in security.
The messages are e2e encrypted and the server is designed in such a way that attempting to listen in would bring it down.
The signal org doesn’t even have your address book.
If your concern is “I don’t like signal”, you’re not going to make much traction.
I also use this.
Have had to update it in tiny ways in the last ~ 7 years?
I used to add peas, corn and chopped carrot to this to get my kids to eat their veggies.
Shred some Colby + Parmesan over the top.
I still make it this way even though they’re adults now, it’s just the family bolognese. 🤷.
The issue was the owners choice of not federating with anything nsfw.
By moving to lemmy.world I could still post as much as I wanted to !australia@aussie.zone AND upvote boobs.
The stated reason is that there’s too many bad actors coming from here, so it’s too hard to moderate:
https://beehaw.org/post/567170
Hopefully (as they state in their post), federation will resume once things settle into a new norm.
Or I forsee beehaw losing relevance as it continues to pursue an isolationist policy.
I love the top gear reference, but surely May would have been the obvious choice, Hammond is just asking for a crash!