symfonystation

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[–] symfonystation@kbin.social 4 points 6 months ago

@wakest Mastodon may have started down the enshitification route and heading toward being forked.

[–] symfonystation@kbin.social 24 points 9 months ago

@wise_pancake

@alyaza I helped them out with a paid subscription. Hopefully more people will.

[–] symfonystation@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

@deadsuperhero That’s disappointing.

[–] symfonystation@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

@ernest After 1.0 is released, please take some time off. And try to delegate. Sending you some funds! Hang in there buddy.

 

The NLnet foundation has played a significant role in the fediverse, with their financial support for most major projects. In this piece I meet some of the people behind NLnet, and get to know the foundation.

[–] symfonystation@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@aeternum

@seasonone Hopefully it fails after killing of shitter first.

 

The launch of Threads, with its promise of adding ActivityPub support in the future, is hotly debated. I take a look at 3 upcoming pieces of legislation, the DMA, DSA and the Canadian Online News Act, to see how this potentially impacts Threads decision to federate in the future.

 

ActivityPub API service - Werd Cloud

 

Twitter under Elon Musk’s chaotic reign has seemingly created an opportunity for an alternative microblogging service.

[–] symfonystation@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

@ernest Thanks for everything you and the team do. I just sent you a few beers. :) https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kbin for others wanting to contribute.

[–] symfonystation@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@uhvayga They definitely federate with the kbin instances which you can find here. https://fedidb.org/software/kbin

 

A collection of usability enhancements for Kbin

 

I proactively blocked the box of c*nts, aka Facebook's new Threads domain, on the user level. It's not easy, but here is a link showing how to do it. https://medium.com/@geofbard/how-to-block-server-domains-in-mastodon-899b24f8fb6e

We'll see if it works once they add Activity Pub integration.

And I blocked them because they are a box of c*unts. And I'll leave it up to instances to do whatever they want with Threads.

#Threads #FuckUpBook

#fediverse

 

Chaos at Reddit and Twitter have a direct impact on the fediverse. Growth at Lemmy and Kbin. The server database of kolektive.social gets seized by the FBI.

[–] symfonystation@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

@giallo I like the “to quote myself from earlier, so I will as well.

I want to address the uproar in the Fediverse about preemptively blocking the Meta ActivityPub product. And whether it should be at the instance or individual user level. A variety of reasons for and against this have been given.

At the moment, I would go with the latter. But no matter the arguments, the reason every single Fediverse user should block it is that Meta is a box of c*nts.

They have always been a box of c*nts. And they will always be a box of c^nts. Meta should be trusted as far as I can kick Zuck. About six feet. They will immediately or eventually try to enshitify whatever product they launch. At that point, administrators should block them at the instance level.

Maybe I am wrong, but maybe the Easter Bunny is real.

Do I need to remind anyone these are the mofos greenlighting the spread of misinformation of all types, science denial, propaganda from the enemies of democracy, conspiracy theories from every lunatic on earth, election stealing, suicide instigation for teenagers, and the mass genocide of Muslims in Myanmar?

[–] symfonystation@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@brunofin If it will only work with Lemmy, you could honor the original by naming it Lemfinity. If it will also work for kbin, maybe Threadfinity. Good luck.

 

CEO Steve Huffman says tech giants should not be able to trawl Reddit’s huge store of data for free. But that information came from users, not the company

 

As you may have heard, Reddit’s decided to pull a Twitter and start charging an extortionate amount of money for access to their previously-free API, in order to drive third-party clients like Apollo and RIF into extinction. Under Reddit’s proposed pricing, …

 

In this week’s newsletter: Facebook has been hit with a €1.2bn fine by EU regulators, and the cracks in the fault lines of data regulations are showing. Could that be a good thing?

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