Kaldo

I know we like to indulge in some FUD but I feel like you could have made that argument at any point after PoF, we've had very little changes to core gameplay besides balance since then. And it might not be necessarily a bad thing either if their current team can't support it - we'd all love 9 perfectly balanced classes with each elite spec being useful and completely distinct but it is kinda obvious to anyone that this is just not possible, and maybe it never was in the first place.

If anything, I feel like the relic changes and addition of new weapons for every class is a pretty big change to the game, larger than what we've had in years. They are focusing on the skyscale and griffon for a flying sky-themed map, but that just says to me that they are finally focusing more on mounts and flying rather than making another formulaic ground meta-map where everyone just raptor-dashes or roller beetles around.

Ehh, too tacky. Do we know if they come with animations / transformation too?

I think articles can also be read on Mastodon though, while other types of threads like url/image/... don't show up there.

ActivityPub is a W3 Consortium protocol.

Same as browser standards that google adjusts as it suits them and everyone else like firefox has to fall in line or be incompatible?

And I just used hotmail as an example, it can be gmail or even protonmail. The point is, you will not be hosting an email service from your rpi at home. The same could be true for fediverse if in 5-10 years it is dominated by meta, google and ms. I think that's the potential fear with them coming here, not just stealing data that is already public anyway.

They dont need to control the fediverse, they just need to control the users and content. If everything important starts appearing on meta people will want to federate with them. Fighting against it will be as pointless as trying to get redditors off reddit for more than 1 week. Once they have this monopoly they can change AP to suit them and others either fall in line or lose access.

You bring up windows vs linux but that's not a reassuring thought, despite all efforts put into Linux it's still the second child playing catch up while everyone develops and adjusts for windows first. And Linux has the advantage of being ancient, used by devs everywhere, and recently being backed by valve for gaming, which the 'old' fediverse won't have. Meta just wants to step over old instances and become the @hotmail of email while everyone else goes on the 'unknown' blocked list.

It seems the issue is that if meta comes here one day with 10 million users it's going to just stomp over every other instance in the fediverse. Next step will be changing AP so it benefits them, forcing other instances to either adapt or get cut off from 90% of the content (and if you are wondering what will the people choose, look at reddit), like what Google does to browser standards despite W3C. And the final step is reaching the same state as email today - if you are not coming from one of the big approved providers, you are unsafe, blacklisted and completely isolated.

In short, if meta succeeds at breaking into this new tech, they will take the reigns, they won't play nice by the rules. Doesn't even matter if they get blacklisted or not.

Actually we are just Erns, he alone is the Ernest.

I think everyone is aware that brand new tech like this can't compete directly with reddit, a megacorporation with literally thousands of employees and a 10 year headstart, in terms of convenience or stability. There is also the sunk cost of having been on reddit a while and having it already configured, setup and filled with data.

Personally for me, that is hardly excuse to not try something new and maybe improve the situation a bit in the long term. After all following that logic we'll be using reddit 50 years into the future as well and nothing will ever change, which just sounds horrifying to me. I also know most people don't care about this beyond the basic convenience so yeah, the moderators will have to find a balance how much they can push it but it's only been a week, larger and more important reddit subs are still locked too, and some by public vote too.

tl;dr Of course it is less convenient, but there are other good reasons to be less dependent on reddit.

Why would I, it's not my argument to make. If you have problem with the protest open your own subreddit as you've already been told to, you are not entitled to free moderation services.

If you think you can do a better job than the mods you are free to open your own warframe-themed subreddit and moderate it. You have no right to demand anything of the mods when most of the community is backing them up in this too.

The louder they protest it's not doing anything, the more you can be certain that it is.

It's not censoring, they can still go and subscribe to something even if it's defederated afaik. It's just not shown by default, which sounds like a great idea for instance owners that want to protect their users or curate the overall atmosphere. Or they just create an account there if they disagree with the decision.