When the shoe fits, start wearing it. PRC is an authoritarian state led by a dictator and his cronies.

Finally. Maybe the world's biggest store, the world's biggest CDN and webhost, and the world's biggest logistics network shouldn't be under one roof.

And this is why software should always be offline and installed from media. My copy of Photoshop 6(CS1) doesn't care what I do with it, it's software that does a job. I've tried updated CS versions of Photoshop thanks to friends and other means, and frankly? CS1 does all of what I need or want, and very little of what I don't.

Working with software not installed and accessible on an airgapped offline machine is a bad idea.

It's because very suddenly, users of RIF and Apollo are going to be locked out of Reddit, and people think they'll migrate here, rather than going to the official Reddit mobile software (as a RedReader user, I've switched over), or going to Facebook/Instagram.

You're suggesting that kbin.social defederates from... itself?

Aaron would be so disappointed.

No, he would have immediately replaced the mods with internal people and internal bots, and turned off the "private" option. Frankly, I expect he'll do that anyway, or, in 30 days, a whole bunch of them will be going up on RedditRequest - with a new group of powermods.

It's a fundamental question about society: which is more prevalent, fear or laziness? They had no reason to move until their program stopped working. Now, it's not going to work anymore. But I don't believe we'll see a massive adoption wave. People are still confused about the nature of the Fediverse, and they're too scared by their ignorance to get over it and bite the bullet.

Unfortunately, those that do take the plunge will find that most Fediverse client software is in beta, or less than fully functional. Laziness will keep them away. Fear will push them to other monolithic platforms. So my thought is that it's going to drive traffic to Meta's properties for the time being, at least at this time.

I'm sure users will step forward if they care. Otherwise, it's just a campaign optimization at work. Limit the breadth of organic content to deepen the brand-friendly content and push more paid media into the feed.

I strongly disagree with you. By encouraging a single site, rather than some nebulous part of a community, you take a lot of the decision and strife away, and help to bring new people to your "local" community. Trying to navigate the fediverse as a whole doesn't interest me or a lot of people. Most people online do want monolithic platforms - see the move from IRC servers to ICQ/AIM/MSN/Y!Msgr, then the consolidation on AIM, and now Discord. The same goes with social media. Independent blogs and webrings led to myspace and facebook (and then just Facebook), independent food reviews led to Yelp, independent stores led to ebay & amazon. Forums led to Digg, Digg v4 was the rise of Reddit. People want to centralize into a community.

In spite of how it's sold, the Fediverse doesn't feel like a single community. It feels like a bunch of small towns meeting at the county fair. That's the only way I can describe it. I don't want to read stuff that's happening over there, I want to have stuff happening here. And that's before we get into defederated communities.

Lol. Monkey JPEGs get funged.

Corp vs. Cyberpunks.

Tale as old as time. Gee, what color was the sky today? The color of a television, tuned to a dead channel?

It pushed me straight back to uncompromising piracy, and a total refusal to give money for any reason unless the game is fully offline and on physical media.

Wow...

There's already porn in the fediverse. I don't see a problem with it existing, but it's always bothered me when porn and social media get mixed. That's not necessarily because of prudishness or shame, but rather the fact that social media often employs dark patterns of addiction, and porn addiction can become very real, very quickly. I think we need to be careful about it, and I think there should be an onus on platforms as well as producers to help protect the vulnerable against addiction and the downward spiral.

We need a scraper rather than an API caller.

I'm absolutely of the mindset that all non-comment interactions should be totally anonymous. I'm disincentivized to react to content, positively or (especially) negatively, because I expect that the Reddit-style behavior of trawling a user's history if you disagree with them is commonplace. We need full anonymity - not just pseudonymity.

Hollow & petty gestures don't help.

You're judging the platform based on the earliest of early adopters. Yes, people with nothing to lose and everything to gain by being on the ground floor of the platform have joined, but general adoption will take a little while. It will grow and normalize. They do have an uphill battle convincing people to leave Twitter, and frankly, ActivityPub isn't a big selling point. Being able to talk to nerds who left Twitter and Reddit isn't going to drive the average Instagram user or current average Twitter user to a platform - or else they'd be here. Yes, that's the side many of us know, but we are not average users.

Oh, finally! I'm certain it's going to fall completely on its face, but at least they're finally acknowledging that the issue exists.