Put some dang standard labels on the function keys.

F1 = Help

F2 = Rename

F3 = Search

F4 = Close

F5 = Refresh

F6-F10 = Decorative

F11 = Full screen

F12 = Goto definition

Surprising, I thought thermal solar power was going the way of the dodo.

I’m shocked, shocked to learn that Forbes doesn’t know anything about green energy.

Nobody could have predicted this! :P

Is the cabal in the room with us right now?

If it becomes a problem, the fediverse can cut the bridge when they need to. No sense doing it pre-emptively.

Start. Learning. To. Read.

Would email be better if you couldn’t send/receive emails from people with Gmail accounts?

“everyone who disagrees with me is a chud”

This is like saying “my email provider should block all emails from Gmail”.

And they can hoover your data right now. Like, you think bots aren’t spidering the site already? It’s a public website.

a lot of folks here naively think Meta will for some reason handle things more ethically.

Yeah it’s way easier to win arguments when you make up your opponent’s position in your mind

Nobody thinks Meta will be ethical.

We just think federation will be good for the Fediverse regardless.

ITT:

“Nobody understands fedipact, Jabber, activitypub, Ruby, embrace/extend/extinguish, mastodon, lemmy, Java, federation, Kubernetes, XMPP, Docker, architecture, carburetors, Ikebana, midwifery, Filipino stickfighting, Zoroastrianism, hegelian philosophy, or XML but me, and therefore you’re all morons with nothing to contribute to this conversation”.

This implies Google is organized-enough to have any coherent concept of strategy. They made a browser because everything they make is web-based and wanted to control that. They add non-standard features to the browser because they want to do stuff that isn’t doable as part of the standard, because the web is a document engine that has been perverted into a general-purpose application platform.

I disagree that fediverse is inherently libertarian/anarchist. In fact, a big selling point is that you can find an instance the administration agrees with your politics and will implement moderation policy accordingly.

Let’s be honest, Tesla is the new BMW, the brand associated with self-important upper-middle-class management pricks.

“BMW always stops with a jerk” has been a joke since before Tesla existed, and now Tesla has inherited the throne.

Doesn’t it require a whole mess of Docker instances and some kind of orchestrator to host? Or is it easier to stand up on a single server now? I haven’t looked into it in a year or so.

See, this is the more reasonable concern. Moderating a fediverse instance is hard, and the flood of posts coming from Threads might be a bad problem. That’s a case where I understand the need to defederate. But on the other hand, that doesn’t feel like a solution that needs to be done proactively - defederating from Threads if/when Threads users become a problem seems perfectly reasonable.

Exactly. Any analysis of “embrace extend extinguish” WRT Google/XMPP needs to answer a simple question: how many daily active users did XMPP/Jabber have in 2004?

I, for one, support the right of every instance to federate with whoever they choose to federate with.

So do I.

I just think their decisions might be dumb.

How many users did Jabber/XMPP have in 2004?

recommending everyone I knew to switch to it

I think we’ve isolated the problem. Everyone is aware of the risk this time. nobody is going to abandon their Fediverse accounts for Threads.