If 200,000 people would rather figure out how to make all their individual forum softwares work together in synchrony than put up with your bloody app, Reddit, maybe you have a pretty shitty app?

Dunno. I never installed it coz I never install any apps if I can help it, and I know how to use a web browser. But if a quarter of a million people would rather subject themselves to the complexities of distributed information networks and the politics of inter-instance blocking than use your bloody app, Reddit, maybe you have a pretty shitty app?

It's like the kids today don't know what a web address is with their obsession with apps. They seem to prefer to download an executable than read a text document. If even them, a million zoomer kids who are normally obsessed with apps, if even they would rather entertain the idea of a communications commons not owned and controlled by oligarchs than use your app, then maybe you should have just used yer IPO money to buy Apollo?

Dunno. I've never installed either. Sounds sketchy. I distrust apps.

@Gaywallet

While it still says "twitter.com" in the SSL certificate, that's still it's name. It is still called Twitter.

Yeah, I keep saying this to people when they worry about fragmentation. Like it's important to have all the Baseball fans in the same Baseball forum under one big banner.

No, that's not better, that's worse. What you want is a thousand interconnected forums with 100 people each, not a forum with 100,000 people.

@[email protected]

Bush, Trump, Clinton and Biden all got more innocent people killed than Julian. Their crimes all dwarf anything he is accused of let alone is guilty of. If you are not a literal bot, you have allowed yourself to be programmed by intelligence agencies into hating the man who exposed the crimes over the men who committed them.

Of course they do, Labour will be the ones passing the laws in a couple of years and they've shown under their current leadership they are no threat to established interests and will do nothing to change the order of things and since the party has lost so many members it needs the money.

If only there really was a party offering to undo every law the conservative and coalition governments have passed and return us to a time before they existed.

That party would be the best party.

Sadly that isn't on offer and even Labour intend to keep this mess of a country mostly without any reverting of changes at all.

@psylancer If you got 100 million users so that it's costing 400 million dollars a year, then ideally you need one million servers with 100 users on each. They need to all pass around a hat between their 100 users to raise the 50 dollars in server costs a month.

In the first term of a Labour government they will maybe be a bit less hostile towards the EU but they won't be re-joining or anything. They'll have no mandate to do so since they worry putting it in a manefesto would alienate their red-wall voters.

As it currently looks Labour won't do much of anything at all. Continue tory spending plans, refuse to raise any taxes, not rebuild any schools, not make any changes which may affect the social order or reform capitalism in any way.

Expect 4 years of calm with almost nothing happening. Which in itself will be quite a relief.

@Acetamide Reddit has been pretty terrible for years, I'm excited rather than sad to see their demise.

@JohnEdwa What happens is that people move to other instances and maybe start one with their friends, happens all the time.

Account migration will come to lemmy/kbin, and group-migration is really as easy as saying "Hey everyone, here's the new address"

@MasterBlaster @dusk

Yep, look to me like it's more than just the DDOS protection from kbin.social, no federated posts in "new" for about 24 hours now.

@Spzi KBin wasn't even a thing when Chat GPT's training cut-off date happened.

Federation is having some difficulties currently, mostly due to things overloading or the solutions to the overloading. It'll get better as there are more instances.

@meteorswarm

And they have the cheek to suggest I donate money to them. 😆 Their CEO should be donating to me!

I've switched to Librewolf mostly now since they said they merged with an advertising company and are gonna add this scam "private tracking" bollocks.

It passed for me. Deleted my account today and now it's all over.

@[email protected] The British People don't want it at all, but we are ruled by fuckheads who can only get their seat by accepting bribes from private health companies.

@agreenbhm Why it it worse to have multiple communities for the same topic spread across multiple instances vs having multiple communities for the same topic spread across multiple subreddits?

Seems like better redundancy and if they're all in the same app speaking the same protocols then similar functionally.

Even if there was only one subreddit why would it be better to have one instead of a long tail of many?

@fediversenews @atomicpoet

🤷 I've mostly used it for MAME anyway.

@TheButtonJustSpins It's like letting oligarchs monopolize the means of communication is a bad idea or something!? Who knew.

@Gaywallet

@[email protected] 🤞

@bfr0 There were also multiple gaming communities within reddit, lets face it. Can't herd people all into one place even if there's only one website they'll find a way to schism