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nix , 5 months ago to World News in Oman declares a no-fly zone over its territory for all military aircraft involved in operations against Yemen

How did they get into power i wonder?

nix , 5 months ago to World News in Israeli Group Claims It’s Using Big Tech Back Channels to Censor “Inflammatory” Wartime Content

What country? Germany?

nix , 5 months ago to Fediverse in Copy, Acquire, Kill— How Meta could pull off the most extraordinary pivot in tech history

Tldr: The answer is actually to outcompete them. People will use the app/website that brings them more value.

They already have the ability to subscribe to a thread and get notifications for new posts, quote posts, and an optional algorithm that recommends you stuff based on your likes. Things mastodon does not have will be coming fast to Threads. When they decide to come for Lemmy they will have features they see people begging too.

If its way easier and more useful to find information on Threads and their version of Lemmy people will start using it more and more. If AskDocs, AskHistorians, LegalAdvice and other useful subs popped up on a Meta version of Lemmy I would use a Lemmy instance that federated with it because its valuable information I want access to.

Just like twitter and instagram are basically required right now for 3D artists to find jobs, we will be required to use Facebook’s version of twitter, reddit, and instagram if they get the huge user base that twitter and reddit are pushing away, tiktok might lose from a ban, and they already have from instagram.

I hate facebook/meta but if its the best place to find information and work i will use it just like i currently begrudgingly use instagram for finding work.

We need to realize that evangelizing like Stallman is NOT how we grow the open web and FOSS. it’s by making killer apps/hardware like the Steam Deck did so well. People don't use tech for the philosophy behind it, they use it as a tool to complete their task or improve their day. At the end of the day the best tool wins, not the most ethically made tool.

Currently the best thing we could do is get Lemmy to work better with mastodon and vice versa. Thats done by allowing Lemmy accounts to follow Lemmy and Mastodon accounts and by improving the UX for a Lemmy post to be made with mastodon so people post to a community like they would use a hashtag

nix , 6 months ago to [Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation in Is it justifiable to punch yourself in the eye?

Happened to me often. Drink more water and eat potassium filled foods like bananas

nix , 6 months ago to Asklemmy in What would be a good name for a federated Wikipedia?

It doesnt have to be a federated “wikipedia” it can be a federated wiki. Look at the fandom controversy right now where a bunch of games are now moving to their own wikis. A federated wiki software would let all those game wiki host their own wikis but still contribute to eachother without making an account on each wiki.

I want to subscribe to the minecraft and the terraria wikis from my garrys mod wiki account to get notifications on new pages and i want to contribute to them without making an account on each. Federated wikis would be cool

Also i DEFINITELY want a full fledged wiki page available on lemmy so each community can have a wiki with multiple pages and nice linking and a WYSISWYG editor like wikipedia

nix OP , 6 months ago to Fediverse in Lemmy Comments for YouTube is now available!

I don’t really understand it since I know almost nothing about programming. But if I understand it correctly (which I probably don’t) the JSON endpoint is just a static set of information you can pull data from? While the API would be able to read and write data and have more precise information pulled. Not sure though because you can comment and vote from the extension so it’s somewhat interactive still

nix OP , 6 months ago to Fediverse in Lemmy Comments for YouTube is now available!

The developer doesn't use the api, they're using Reddit's free JSON endpoint

nix , 7 months ago to Fediverse in Lemmy devs blocklist the anime instance Ani.social from join-lemmy.org and Lemmy.ml

It looks like ani.social they have a rule to forbid the content though might have just been posts that weren’t reported