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  • It’s silly, you’re just thinking that somehow this time will be different.

    it’s a tactic which relies on public trends, and we are not trend chasers, we are niche users.

    Maybe you are, but most people aren’t. With XMPP, I was similar, running my own server. I didn’t jump to GTalk, but it still ended up with me shutting it down after I ended up to be the only person on my rooster.

    WHY?

    Would YOU really jump into Threads?

    I don’t, but I’m not the most people. I didn’t jump with XMPP, but it still killed it for me.

    Who is this person that you imagine that dropped Facebook and Twitter, but will jump right back as soon as they so much as see it again.

    Such a person wouldn’t even be here to begin with, They would already be there.

    I think you believe that everyone on fediverse is for the same reason as you are. Though I even doubt that, it’s ironic, since you’re here for 9 months, so you arrived here because of the API change. Don’t you think if it was about principle you would be here much earlier than that? Add to it that you’re still quite active on reddit, so you’re lying to yourself and (at least from the outside) it looks like likely you would be one of those people.


  • You mention EEE and forgetting how it works in next paragraph.

    • Embrace - facebook joins fediverse, existing users rejoice because now the user base was added with threads users
    • Extend - facebook starts adding proprietary features to their product, many users start switching, because if they use threads.net they can have the new features AND still have access to the entire network
    • Extinguish - facebook comes to conclusion that there’s not many users on fediverse anymore, and being compatible only holds them up, so they disconnect, suddenly it gets very silent on fediverse, some people will jump to threads.net, because their friends are there, others will quit completely eventually making the network even emptier

    This exact thing happened with Jabber/XMPP and it was also realization that vast majority of people are not loyal to some ideals and will switch to whatever works for them. Companies absolutely hate to have product they can’t fully control.







  • The crazy thing is that the reason why communism sucks is that (at least currently) it requires totalitarianism to implement it. And that comes with a lot of issues. Communism in theory looks like utopia. Russia no longer is communist, but it absolutely is totalitarian, but according to them that’s somehow good.

    Also what I noticed is that those tankies on lemmygrad, aren’t really pro communism, they are pro totalitarianism.









  • I think Ryan McBeth on his YT channel said the real reason for it.

    The cluster munition aren’t that useful for trenches and not useful for offensive when there’s even a small dud rate (it’s not 40% like with Russian cluster bombs, but 2% adds up if you would fire it many times) and you don’t want your own soldiers to be blown up by own munition when they advance.

    But, if you take the missile, open it up, you get 88 bombs, that can penetrate 4cm of steel. Strap them to a drone and they can be quite scary. Also since they are fired individually, they don’t hit each other when falling down which is the primary reason for duds.


  • Two weeks ago I had no presence on Fediverse, and frankly I still don’t know how it works internally, but I can still use it.

    It is as hard to grasp as email. Instead of everyone being on gmail.com people just are on different servers but they can still talk to each other.

    I do admit that Lemmy is confusing and requires a lot of polish in area of UX, (I think kbin (incidentally created by a Polish) provides a better experience, especially for new users, although it still isn’t prefect, but it is getting there), but Mastodon is very simple to use.