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[-] Mountaineer@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

This whole episode is giving me flashbacks to the ActiveX days.

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The tyranny of the default.

"Here mum, I've installed Firefox for you, it's better than Chrome in every way!"
"My knitting circle website doesn't work, I can't download patterns, it says I need Chrome"

Internet Explorer was effectively abandon-ware for a decade after Microsoft used their OS pseudo-monopoly to crush Netscape.
It took another tech giant abusing THEIR monopoly to relegate IE to the trash heap it should have already been on.

[-] Mountaineer@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Comforting and Terrifying.
Comferrifying?
Terriforting?

[-] Mountaineer@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So you won't use your banks website?
Or your utilities (gas/water/electricity/internet)?
You won't let your kids use the portal at their school for submitting assignments?
Your government sites for renewing your drivers license or scheduling hard refuse pickup?

I can think of lots of reasons that will force me to have chrome installed if this goes ahead.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2948569

I'm a bit surprised that news.com.au let this little bit of truth slip through:

“They’re yet to come up with a plan with where the reactors can go and how much they will cost,” the spokesperson told news.com.au.

“Even if we started today, having nuclear power ready within 10 years is being generous. They’re very much against renewables, where we are backing it. Labor has implemented the $20b rewiring the nation policy, which has produced an actual change for the future.

“There are credible reports that nuclear is the most expensive source of energy in the world, so they really need to show people the plan.”

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[-] Mountaineer@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you look at the instances page at beehaw, lemmy.world is still listed as blocked:

https://beehaw.org/instances

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[-] Mountaineer@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

I'd sign up to Titter.

[-] Mountaineer@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] Mountaineer@lemmy.world 81 points 1 year ago

The first 90% of the task takes 90% of the time.
The last 10% of the task takes the other 90% of the time.

[-] Mountaineer@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Mountaineer@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

The condescension in that makes it clear that the smug social network is whichever one the author happens to use.

[-] Mountaineer@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Maybe the client is faster/prettier/can show videos/uses less data/integrates with their phone better.
Maybe it's got features that clients here lack such as the ability to host larger images or video.
Maybe the user is sick of responding to conversations over there and it not being federated, so they are ignored.
Maybe using the Threads app is just faster (because it's local instead of batch federating).

If I was in charge of product design for Threads, I would be literally crawling the issue listings for Lemmy/Kbin and the associated clients looking for complaints and implementing solutions for those problems.
Then I would make a list of every limitation within the system and make sure Threads exceeds that baseline.

And then when I had made the software better in every measurable way (because I am paying a large team of developers to target those pain points), I'd start adding features that ActivityPub doesn't, especially if ActivityPub instances would find those features hard to implement.

I'd make damn sure that every time ActivityPub changes from a source outside Meta, I'd drag my heels on implementing that feature, so that instance hosts are forced to choose between implementing the new version, or maintaining compatability with Threads.

Why would a user here move there?
Because their spouse/coworker/friend tried to send something for the 50th time and the message just never came through.

[-] Mountaineer@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago

Threads will mainstream threads.
Any good content here will be available to the Threads users, who will be oblivious to where it is coming from.
Eventually, Meta will take steps to break compatability, and lots of the most prolific contributors from here will move to Threads exclusively (for a host of valid reasons).
When it is no longer in Meta interest to federate, they will stop.

The fediverse will continue, but it will be weakened by it's temporary reliance on Threads (who could afford to host large images/videos/etc, have lower latency, etc etc).

[-] Mountaineer@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

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.

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