John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed
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I mistook it as you saying DDG is alt-tech. My mistake
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Would like to get my family on Signal. I deleted my facebook account and now we use various other chat apps that I don't quite like
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Brave's business model is a crypto scam wrapped in a protection racket. It man-in-the-middles the site's ads, replacing them with Brave's own, then holds the revenue hostage unless the site gives legitimacy to Brave's crypto by accepting it as payment.
For comparison, "normal" ad-blocking consists of an end-user exercising his property right to control the operation of his own computer by programming it not to display the ads at all.
Hopefully you can see how the thing Brave does is very different, and much more ethically fraught.
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"Public benefit corporation" is such an oxymoron, I know it's cliché to say this but it reads like something out of 1984.
If your goal is truly to benefit the public, why wouldn't you start a non-profit? It's because they want profits, which will always be at odds with the interests of the public.
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Their protocol allows for federated relay servers, but I'm not aware of anyone having done the exercise of launching one.
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I guess they weren't picked as they don't have official apps. Most people look for those first.
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Jack is still the single largest shareholder of private Bluesky stock ...
Oh vraiment?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8dm0ljg4y6o
If anyone tells you Jack isn't involved with BlueSky any more, you should really block them for either being willfully ignorant, or purposefully mistrustful
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technically we are federated, so kind of?
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That's because, to my understanding, the prerequisite to be able to launch one is "handle the raw, unfiltered firehose of all the traffic on the entire platform,". A relay has to be a mirror of the entire company's hosting infastructure, and you'd have to essentially do it for free. It's no puzzle to me why no one's done it yet.
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If your goal is truly to benefit the public, why wouldn't you start a non-profit?
Because your non-profit isn't likely to go anywhere; Capitalists don't give significant money to non-profits, but they'll invest in a public benefit corporation because of the potential for profit. The corporation can then take their money and use it for whatever public benefit it intends to work towards.
It's a workaround to try and scrape some benefit to society out of capital, that otherwise wouldn't exist.
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I’m sure he’s going to be facing lawsuits from Краснов and Wormtongue.
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Also Bluesky isn't an alternative to big tech, it IS big tech. I wish it wasn't stealing so much of our publicity lately.
This; I'm so sick of hearing it pop up when people mention alternatives.
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kind of
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The thing that it really has going for itself is that it simply isn't twitter. And Muskler made sure that's a huge deal.
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Chances are it's really just that, a start. See OpenAI.
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Ah, yeah that makes sense then. They're over 30M active users now.
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Do you really think Lemmy could handle the amount of people that Reddit has?
As far as I know the existing instances are usually running on capacity and always in need of donations, and that’s when the owner isn’t handling the costs themselves. I’m not sure how well most instances have right now.
Maybe Lemmy would benefit of some way to get people to pay, such as giving people awards etc. like Reddit. Despite being useless stuff, it might provide some fun that would make hardcore users want to pay. But for that to work out, all apps would also need to show the posts awarded in a different way, so I think that’s unlikely.
But the point is that without a business model, the Fediverse will only be able to handle enthusiasts.
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It's been 3 hours and your comment is still here...
"Moderate" no, "Influence" yes. I see what you seemed to be trying to say: the Lemmy codebase is fairly authoritian e.g. lacks any way to contact a mod to find out why something was removed, even going so far as to obscure the name of the account that did it, simply saying "mod".
So them being the ones who provide the codebase definitely "influences" us here, but on the other hand they provide the code for free, and anyone at all could make a fork off from it, and administer their own instance however they see fit. Or, as K/Mbin, PieFed, and Sublinks have all done, make their own
Reddit replacementThreadiverse software entirely from scratch.See e.g. [email protected] (here's a start to a post) that proves that people on the Fediverse are allowed to criticize the main Lemmy developers, while still using Lemmy software.
On a personal note I will add: we can respect certain aspects of those people, even as we criticize other aspects, just as we do the same internally inside of our very selves.
