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Hacker news is an algorithmically influenced discussion board, the comment voting system shared by both HN and reddit influences the way people conduct themselves, and not always for the better.
Usenet had no upvotes and still had plenty of flamethreads.
The problem I see with Threads isn't what Meta will do with fediverse data, it's the power they have with owning 97% of the entire fediverse network [1]. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Owning the vast majority of the fediverse userbase will cause them to have a large amount of power to compel users or servers to do whatever they want. What do you do when Facebook implements a new feature and all of your followers compl…
That's not a resolution, that's a wish. But how could it be achieved though? In 6 months Threads could well have hundreds of millions of active users, the vast majority of whom probably won't care about the fediverse.
> What do you do when Facebook implements a new feature and all of your followers complain that your using a Mastodon server instead of joining Threads that has this feature they want?
Mastodon (and others) either have to compete or their users will be like the people reading email in emacs or vi (no offence intended)
The problem I see with Threads isn't what Meta will do with fediverse data, it's the power they have with owning 97% of the entire fediverse network [1]. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Owning the vast majority of the fediverse userbase will cause them to have a large amount of power to compel users or servers to do whatever they want. What do you do when Facebook implements a new feature and all of your followers compl…
https://news.yahoo.com/teen-mom-plead-guilty-abortion-230802... >A Nebraska woman has pleaded guilty to helping her daughter have a medication abortion last year. The legal proceeding against her hinged on Facebook's decision to provide authorities with private messages between that mother and her 17-year-old daughter discussing the latter's plans to terminate her pregnancy. If you have information you don't want oth…
I mean yeah, but also, the actual fault is on the side of people who literally voted for this. And campaigned for this. And spend years trying to put the right people on supreme court so that this happens.
This will make Mastodon pretty much useless if it can just block networks..
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I understand that generally you retain the copyright to your works implicitly and that you don't have to actively file for copyright in order to gain the protection of copyright law. I'm arguing that it's pretty preposterous for a global decentralized federated social platform to assume some authority (enforced by whom, that'd require a central group of enforcers) over the licensing of posts on the network by invokin…
> I'm arguing that it's pretty preposterous for a global decentralized federated social platform to assume some authority (enforced by whom, that'd require a central group of enforcers) over the licensing Why is that not-an-entity the only thing you're considering as able to enforce copyright or otherwise check a platform for doing something legally dubious? > the colloquial "public domain". That is not what public d…
FWIW, I've had a discussion with a British lawyer, IIRC British law has no specific term for what is named "public domain" in US copyright law, and the term "public domain" in UK law means "the public can access it".
I don't use Fediverse nor Meta/Threads, but I write stuff that is public and anyone can view it, or private which only the recipient should read, like anything else, whether I post on Hacker News, or on Usenet, or on a public IRC channel, or whatever else it might be. (Some people don't like public IRC logs, but if it is a public channel then I would prefer that it does have logs; fortunately some IRC channels do.)
So I was going to try threads but can't figure out how. I'm not interested in using a phone. I'm on a computer. Is there no web version?
There is no web version. Threads can be viewed at a URL, but you can't join, post, or browse via web. Amazing, eh?
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Yeah I stopped reading the article once it mentioned people getting annoyed and wanting to control who sees their public content. You don't get to make that call. The community doesn't get to make that call. The protocol makes that call and the protocol allows anybody to view stuff you post publicly. You don't get to say "I publish this but Meta can't view it". Not even legally you don't. That's not privacy and no am…
There's a portion of the far left and the up-and-coming gen-zalpha that takes on a dictatorial "censorship is okay for things we dislike" attitude. They don't realize that in the 90's and 00's free speech was a place of refuge for liberals to escape from evangelical attacks on everything from LGBT rights to Pokemon. They also don't appreciate that the "come one and all" nature of the internet back then led to many pe…
I live in a country with less than that number of people in total.
Which country gets treat the corporation as if the corporation was an arm of the government? Can't really be the servant of two masters.
And if the advertisers don't like what they see, should the government(s) subsidise the sites to make up the difference? That kinda already happens a bit with TV licences in some countries.