He doesn’t even work at the company
He does, he’s the CEO and owner.
And you guys are like “FUCK THEM”
I think people just don’t want their money being used to fund far right extremism. As is their right.
Are you suggesting that people are somehow morally obligated to continue funneling money into a company when they know for a fact their money will be used for evil?
I use Bookorbit not Kabota but this is usually done via OPDS. Kavita is the server and KoReader or a dedicated plugin on the kibo is the client.
From the story, they are. I’ve explained this to you, not going to again.
They are using it, as I’ve explained to you. You’re just a lil slow on the uptake
It was neither exaggerated, nor made up. You’re just hopelessly obtuse.
Idk man being robbed at gunpoint kinda sucks whether you give up your wallet or not.
Whether the gun is used to rob you by shooting you before taking your wallet, or threatening people so they have no choice but to hand you your wallet or get shot, in either case the gun was used to rob you.
No stop it that’s ridiculous. There’s only 4 these days, they bought up all the competition.
The day is saved
Their purpose is perfectly compatible with art and personalization.
Oh, well you’re nobody. They don’t need to be standardized and will remain as they are lol.
Says who, you?
A - The USA is 50 countries in a trench coat
2 - Correct
The only ads in games I’ve ever been ok with were the ones in SWAT 4 where they just had dynamic textures that pulled different ads in so it was literally just like, decorative flyers on the walls were real ads instead of fake ones. Of course I could do with most the whole game braking 20 years later because the back end shit down thing.
From your link:
W3C Candidate Recommendation 22 August 2017
2026-2017 = 9
9<10
Launched November 2010
2026-2010= 16
16>9
The first major public release was released in May 2000
2026-2000=26
26>9
Released in early 2008
2026-2008=18
18>9
OpenMicroBlogging took XMPP/Jabber as a proof-of-concept and created something similar for the purpose of Microblogging.
Ostatus (replaced OpenMicroBlogging, and the influence of ActivityPub)
released March 2010
2026-2010=16
16>9
Ostatus was the precursor to Activitypub and is what Mastodon and other federated social media sites used prior to ActivityPub.
From the very first paragraph of the ActivityPub Wiki:
The creation of a new standard for decentralized social networking was prompted by the complexity of OStatus, the most commonly used protocol at the time. OStatus was built using a multitude of technologies (such as Atom, Salmon, WebSub and WebFinger), a product of the infrastructure used in GNU social (the originator and largest user of the OStatus protocol), which made it difficult to implement the protocol into new software.
Activitypub was built on top of nearly 20 years of existing protocols and was an attempt to make one protocol to rule them all, it is literally the exact thing the xkcd strip is talking about.
No, it wasn’t. ActivityPub is less than 10 years old and was developed as a solution to the fragmented landscape of federation protocols that existed 1-2 decades prior to it. Activitypub is literally the meme
Kind of, but that’s what every creator of every protocol in existence did, including ActivityPub. Thats just how stuff gets made. One thing to appreciate about ATproto is that they made the protocol extensible so that you can shape the standard to fit your own needs in a way that other protocols like ActivityPub don’t, at least not as easily. Since the base of ATproto isn’t your home instance but rather your own personal PDS which is just a database, anyone can define a new schema for records on your database and stand up new functionality, like with Standard.site.
This means that you can connect practically anything to ATproto by simply creating records that match the same schema other ATproto apps expect. Like you can connect a simple blog that is just a static site to the “Atmosphere” (ATproto’s term for fediverse) with a simple script that adds a record when you make a new post.
So a couple things here.
But everything is open, and everything is indexed.
Even who you block, who blocks you, when you usually use an app, your daily time, what your previous usernames were, etc… and more are all recorded.
You really can’t have an open, decentralized social media system without things like this. Privacy was never a promise of the decentralized web because privacy is more or less a result of there being fewer people with keys to the kingdom and you trusting those people not to share your data. But by its very design federation and decentralization protocols need there to be more than one entity with the keys to the kingdom because all the kingdoms have to interact with each other. The only alternative here would be running your own social media service that doesn’t federate with any other à la Truth Social, so you can have total control, but then that wouldn’t be very social or decentralized.
However, actually understanding it and managing it is far from easy for most ordinary users who know little or nothing about programming or technical systems.
Does this mean that Bluesky and the entire AT Protocol community are ultimately designed only for programmers, developers, engineers, digital experts, and people with technical expertise?
No, the opposite. The AT protocol was designed specifically to combat this issue because ActivityPub is so unintuitive and complicated for less technical users. A standard user will pick a PDS service hosted by someone else and unlike with ActivityPub, they really only need the one and can switch between them without losing all their followers and follows with ease.
If I were to sum up your grievances, I would say that your issue is that you don’t like social media and don’t appreciate how social ATproto is, but that’s what it’s designed for. And in fact that’s what Lemmy and Mastodon and all these ActivityPub apps are designed for. It sounds to me like what you want is to just not use social media. Or at the very least, you want a centralized private platform where you can be in total control. Those exist, but ActivityPub and ATproto are antithetical to that goal.
ITT: illiterates who don’t understand the difference between the terms migrant, immigrant, and expatriate.
Expat is colloquially used to describe a person who is living abroad on a long term but not permanent basis, so the term “immigrant” would not apply, which is the actual “icky” word they don’t like, not migrant
And it was invented not as an alternative to migrant but rather as a specific circumstance, which is a person who was either banished from, or has served all connection to their prior country. So while this original use would refer to an immigrant, not a migrant, and it just more specifically refers to somebody who migrated under a certain circumstance.
You’re legally obligated to pay taxes and you have some say in how they’re spent in the form of state and federal elections (or your country’s equivalent). If you’re doing everything in your power to make sure that money isn’t used for evil then ultimately you can’t be faulted for what happens beyond that point.
But on the other hand you’re voluntarily choosing to pay Mullvad knowing full well that your money will be used to prop up far right extremism and you have no say in it beyond your choice to give them your money.
How you rationalize that to yourself is a personal matter but it certainly and absolutely does not give you a moral high ground over people who choose not to fund evil.