And then throw bombs in the basement lol
My guy Palestine is occupied since 1948 by Israel who, usually, "only" did sporadic bombings here and there. Now there's an active war with some 35k dead and Israeli forces preparing to invade Rafah which has an encampment of unthinkable amounts of refugees. There's a genocide going on right now. This kind of behaviour is encouraged, not ignored. Their ranks look bad enough committing genocide, it isn't a few "bad apples".
game's mordhau, if you were wondering
now i see there kinda already is a mod? How does this work, I tried posting a meme from Lemmy Connect and it didn't let me, but it does from PC?
commenting for mod
I suppose we shall never know. F droid and all apps are up to date for me, so it's not that... I am not tech savvy enough to find out lol.
I'm not sure, it seems others can't find it either. My own simple gallery works fine and without the new stuff everyone is complaining about here (I got it from f droid, so that's why). Maybe it's because it can't take down the page for a downloaded app?
I found simple gallery though. It even showed me that I had it installed as it should.
Yea Greek dogs around that post 2008 era were based like that
It is as you say, but look at the difference. Allowing metaverse to grow is only going to hurt them, while the potential profits from the metaverse could be massive. They deemed it a risk worth taking because of the potential success. Meta won't leave the fate of lemmy up to chance, because they decided we are not very likely to disappear in time.
Nothing good will come of federating with meta, the fediverse should simply stay out of their reach and realize whatever potential it may have.
I think there might be another way to hurt it though that this article doesn't seem to mention. Funnily enough, it's also a theme of an asterix and obelix comic book, which the introduction referenced. This way would be monetization. Threads might try to "help" the fediverse by feeding the bigger instances money, therefore the hosts of the instances would be more open to negotiations with meta and accepting of their policies.
I will compare this to YouTube which started paying all it's big creators until they became dependent on the platform for a living and then started slowly implementing more and more rules that limit their freedom of expression. Remember how much PewDiePie used to swear in his getting over it videos? In another "pew news" or whatever it was called video I happened to watch he directly mentioned that he censors himself because he isn't going to put his job on the line just to say "fuck". Profit invites creators to comply with YouTube's regulations even if they aren't enforced violently always.
The same pattern was used in the asterix comic I mention above. Ceasar decides to open a building complex almost next to the problematic for him village and so the residents flood the markets and are shocked at the low prices compared to Rome. As a result, the villagers start increasing prices and advertising their goods and services, neglecting their previous morals and ethos. In the end, however, the Romans lose again after (panoramix, I think?) makes them realize how much separation this has caused them, living only for their business. As a result they kick the Romans out of their village, once again united, and Caesar's plans fail.
I think both these stories could serve as a potential warning to anyone who might consider selling themselves out if meta adopts such a policy.
Freedom is the goal with the fediverse, so I'd prefer it stays niche than become like reddit. I used reddit and now sadly Instagram too and the users can't be compared to Lemmy. Instagram is obscenely toxic, I will never doomscroll there again it was worse than reddit, which was also still pretty bad.
However what I really can't stand is the slow restrictions, the watering down of content to the point where it's insufferably bland. I came here to escape that. Post whatever the hell I want to post and browse whatever the hell other people felt like posting. The sincerity of everything is what makes the fediverse special for me.
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I mostly use it for music nowadays since Spotify also repulses me. The content on the site is horrendous nowadays. If the old videos are in the archive and won't have to bother saving them myself the goodbye will be very swift.