Lies, damned lies and statistics.

Yeah but still at the cost for a private citizen, right?

So, not in this economy.

Or is the cost of the lawsuit prepaid by the State?

What? As a private citizen? in +this* economy?

Wasn’t the point of stuff like the GDPR that the governments would be the ones doing the enforcing and the suing?

To be fair, it’s to be expected. Because other platforms have muscle from those companies (Nintendo is basically from the land of the Yakuza, and they do behave as such towards their customers) so that commentary on their stuff in those platforms is sanitized or corporationized. On lemmy you can, for the most part, comment on how you really feel about a corporation.

This pretty much. For as much as people are concerned that the “lack of UX” or the “discoverability” problems keeps people out, the important thing is it keeps normies out.

As I’ve seen before on some posts on the Fediverse discussing proprietary platforms, we all already know this. We saw FB went to shit as soon as it started allowing uneducated users.

But they might…if you infused 58 million new users to the mix.

It’s far, far more likely they’ll be interested in eugenicism, UN conspiranoia and the divine right of Israel, given the platform they’re “branching” from.

Nobody is going to scroll in their off time when you can randomly have furry dick pop up.

But when they have that content, or even worse stuff such as neo-nazism, shown on Twitter and Facebook, suddenly they have no issue! Suspicious.

this definitely makes sense in the OSS community, but i feel like someone should’ve already done it as a semi pet project already. I know i would’ve done it.

Pet project, yes; production-ready, that’s a whole 'nother story.

Ultimately some things are too complex to deliver out on tem “just because”. Such as web browsers, hence ATM there only exist about 2.

Don’t hold your breath on the whole “wisening up to the VC funding” thing. People today still believe the moon landing was somehow faked to own the libs or something silly like that.

The grossest franchise of all time (Pokémon) still has like 20 forums going on.

Discord is just high quality and

What are you smoking and can you share the contact info of your dealer?

the major issue with forums, as pointed out, is the hassle of having to go from one website to another to talk about various subjects and needing to sign up to each one of them.

Honestly the “having to sign up” part would be trivial to solve if topical forums just globally adopted OpenID sign-in or similar. No need to have one account per community if you already have (or “are”) an account in the World.

But even then, there’s a point to having to go through a sign-up process. At least some sort of vetting. We have seen how far have fallen all the communities that have ever relaxed sign-ups (as another comment in this thread shows, there was once a time when FB only allowed educated people in).

It’s 2024, h264 runs on a CPU like nothing, why haven’t we figured out how to do these things yet?

It’s not about the hardware. (Not like it’s that ubiquitous anyway; I’m daily driving a machine from 2017)

I’m going to guess part of it is because for the things that matter to the people who do end up having to code, test and distribute stuff, something like “seamless screen sharing” or “video conference” doesnt really matter.

And IMO, that’s good if we want to Recover the Web.

The idea behind being in something like a jabber chatroom, or a web forum, is that I can pay attention to 12 channels (or whatever) at a time, read one or two, reply in three others, etc. Text is so un-invasive that I can just explore without bothering myself or anyone else.

In comparison, something like audio chat or video chat is more presence-encompassing. You can’t really “push to talk” three different things to three chatrooms at about once, and you likely can but won’t want to listen to three chatrooms full of people at the same time. For something like a videoconference you not only need a camera, but a good behind-you because not only who knows who or what will be showing back there.

In the end, something like a simple jabber-like chatroom is far easier and more productive to work on, even before we get to the coding part.

Not to mention: this is computer stuff. No one really likes to work on “debt”, which is what “Foo has to have ‘screen sharing’ because Discord has it” ultimately boils down to.

This is the most stupidest idea (yes, double superlative, that’s how bad it is) I’ve heard posted on the Fediverse since… well, the last time I heard the most stupidest idea, and that was also here on the Fediverse. So, congratulations on that front.

There’s like 123456 bad things with this idea, starting with the obvious of blockchain and cryptocurrency, and continuing with the fact that “quality of instances” is equated to “consumption of content”. Popularity and connectivity are not indicators of quality.

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Nice try, fed.

Some of the best stuff in the world looks like it’s 20 years past a prime that isn’t, because they’re truly good eternal.

IDK how easy it still is these days.

[packagemanagername] install xnest, tbh.

Hell, trolls could go around and recreate accounts on the top 100 instances with the same username users have on other instances to prevent them from reusing the same username elsewhere, just that is a weird concept to explain

Yes but that doesn’t mean you should get automatic dibs on a name everywhere. It’s just a name. If you are Joe Bill at lemm.ee, that does not give you any rights over the name Joe Bill all across the world. Statistically speaking, there’s at least 18 thousand other Joe Bills around at this very moment.

Like, this is something that is already solved by the instance’s moderators.

Well, what’s stopping someone else from adopting TomHanks@Lemm.ee?

There’s over 1400 people solely in the US named Tom Hanks. Tom Hanks The Celebrity does not get patent rights or trademarks or copyrights on the name.

Wanna know which is the Tom Hanks The Celebrity? Check if their profile is authenticated against their personal website, à-la-Mastodon.

A toot is literally the sound of a birb. It’s got more comfy than “tweet” does.