We only attack ‘half-black’ entities, it’s politically expedient.

Good point. I wonder if there was a way to like auto-transcribe these voice/video comments and automatically embed them in the source code so you have like a written-out comment that people could read.

This guy embeds TicTok URLs in source comments followed by long strings of emoji

I just assumed it would be terrible because it’s a hard problem to solve generally, but like 98% of the time I don’t even realize it’s on (and it’s really easy to turn off). It’s seriously incredible.

Yeah, or batching changes and confirming receipt with a hash. From what I’ve been reading, the design seems a little janky.

Scalability does mean favoring monoliths because it costs money to scale and scaling here isn’t proportional to your instance’s users, it’s proportional to the size of the entire network.

60k users is today, not tomorrow. I’m thinking forward to 6000k users.

When the protocol favors monoliths, we’re right back to the Reddit problem

Interesting. Curious if you have a better understanding of ActivePub - do you happen to know if the protocol guarantees synchonicity and what mechanism guarantees it?

The implementation as far as I understand it is plain stupid. It prevents small instances from participating at any significant scale and seems happy to just drop data over the wire without reconciling. Seriously amateurish.

Speaking as someone who has little familiarity with the situation in France aside from the basic facts, this reeks of blameshifting

Dark Reader is amazing. Not just a great idea, but incredible execution.

Trillian!! That’s a chain of neurons that’s been dormant for about 15 years…

I guess it’s Lemmy’s turn to experience the eternal September effect. At least the “New Platform” is better resilient to greed this time. Long live Digg Reddit Lemmy!

It makes me sad that a site as big as Reddit is letting down so much of it’s userbase for a quick buck

Given that they had opportunities to actually monetize these apps (force displaying ads, charging a reasonable price for API access), it seems obvious that it’s a move toward wiping out the third-party ecosystem entirely instead of just trying to get compensated for it.

The backtracking to allow mod tools to continue operating (those that still add irreplaceable value to the platform) while refusing to negotiate with other apps further confirms that.

It couldn’t. The enshittification has long since begun.