I want to be mad but FFS Reddit had Conde Nast money for most of its shittery so they had NO excuse except incompetence.
At least Fediverse servers are typically Steve's old laptop or some shit so it's understandable.
AnObscureTenet
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I was mistaken. My understanding was that this was an ActivityPub standard. Apparently it's specific to certain things that use the protocol, such as Mastodon, but not inherent
You're completely right. It's possible on Mastodon and I apparently got bad information that it was an ActivityPub standard rather than specific to Mastodon.
Well that shitballses some stuff up.
Nobody can "get ahold" of an instance in any meaningful way. Accounts can be migrated to other instances. Instances that act poorly get defederated.
If Meta buys lemmy.world you know what happens? Everyone migrates to other instances, lemmy.world gets defederated, and Meta now has a completely useless instance name and not much more.
Are you actually so new to the internet you've never seen the same thing posted multiple times when there are server issues? You can find a dozen examples of this on practically every post right now.
And yes, Musk's main backes in his Twitter purchase are Saudi and Russian. You would be absolutely blind to think that has nothing to do with his actions. Twitter's content has bent further and further right, towards the general russo-slurping conservative side of things, ever since he took over.
Why do you think they got rid of the "state backed media" tag on RT and others?
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/28/saudis-kingdom-holding-company-to-maintain-twitter-stake https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musks-twitter-takeover-faces-backlash-over-saudi-financing-1755606 https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/elon-musks-twitter-bid-leans-on-financier-linked-to-russian-tycoon/articleshow/92093745.cms?from=mdr
If you don't like those sources just search for others. This is public information, not subject to argument.
During the pandemic VC slowed to a crawl and the stock market went to shit. While the market eventually rebounded VC is doing so MUCH more slowly. VC scum doesn't care about innovation, it cares about making money. If there's some level of risk it shrinks like balls in a January pool and it takes forever to coax the little guys out.