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Oh my God. This is awesome.
"We need to tighten the purse strings!!1" quickly became "open the coffers!" as soon as they hit a speed bump.
Seriously epic. With the amount of vote manipulation going on over there, this will be a complete and utter failure. I guarantee it will be pulled in a month or two.
Democratic People's Republic of Korea is literally none of those things.
Bad argument.
At this point you've already beared your ass and it's as clear as day you don't understand the topics you're discussing. I see no reason to continue giving you my time when you're just going to change your argument over and over again. See ya, nerd.
This post is weird. You're typing like you're in charge of things, but you're apparently not.
It's one thing to show some initiative, but you're literally demanding a full report like the Lemmy devs work for you. You sound like someone who does this kind of thing for a living and felt the need to flex. Because otherwise, what the hell are you even doing?
Setting neurotically-specific demands for the developers makes sense if you represent a big instance or something, but you're literally just a dude. You could have framed this entire post in a different way and gotten away with it. Right now, it's creepy to anybody who actually reads the entire thing.
Of course there is. Every decentralized network can be controlled by making it more centralized.
You're conflating two things I already mentioned in the previous post.
Just because you can’t imagine how something could happen, doesn’t mean that it can’t happen. I gave you one example scenario just like you asked. It is based on “embrace, extend, and extinguish” strategy.
Microsoft is a false equivalency. EEE doesn't work in federated systems. Email is the example I've given to you about 3 times, and you've ignored it. I wonder why?
Setting up a reliable email server is difficult, so not many people decide to do it. This is common knowledge.
You're changing it from "setting up an email server is difficult" to "setting up a reliable email server is difficult"? Why make the change? Also, it's still wrong. Email is trivial to set up. I seriously wish you would stop arguing about things you genuinely do not understand.
Strawman arguments can be factual. The entire point is that you're responding to something that wasn't the argument. You're putting words in their mouth to defeat them instead of addressing their words at face value. It is the definition of a strawman argument.
Maybe this total control over the Fediverse will be enough for Facebook.
There is no control over federation. You're working with a false premise. Once again: who owns email?
Or maybe they will decide one day to break compatibility with the ActivityPub protocol. Some other Fediverse instances will feel pressured to implement the same changes to the protocol, in order to keep people connected. Some of them will not want to do this though, which will create a split in the community. Eventually the instances that remained with Facebook will struggle to keep up with the changes and will become less and less reliable, until they become completely useless and disappear. The Fediverse users will have to create a Facebook account to follow their favorite celebrities. Fediverse content creators will be forced to do that as well in order to stay relevant. Most of those people will not want to use two platforms at once (and they are already committed to using Facebook) and will stop using the Fediverse, which will become known as a buggy and unreliable platform with a much smaller userbase that it started with.
Not a lick of this is based in reality. You're guessing based on preconceived biases and an overactive imagination. But we literally don't have to guess! We've been, as I've said, doing this for decades now. Nothing you just said applies to any other "federated" service system we've implemented on the internet to date.
I’ve heard that most of email is controlled by like 3 providers and it’s very difficult to setup your own server. So that’s also not a good situation.
With all due respect, if this is your current level of knowledge about a topic, perhaps refrain from opining about it.
Katydids are beautiful. Impossible to spot when they're in trees/foliage, but when they jump on cars and other man-made objects, they stand out like a sore thumb. Thanks for sharing this!