Maybe on your instance - it’s your loss. But admins have a choice - defed from them and lose access to all those users and having actual content worth looking at, or federate with them and actually grow your network into something that has enough going on to make people interested. As it is, I use Threads right now. I strongly prefer it to Mastodon. Kbin comes close, but has less content to idly scroll through. If no Fediverse site I use supports Threads, I’ll keep on using it.

I’m not at my computer, so please excuse any mobile issues. I’m in favor of the move, because it will help to simultaneously connect and decentralize communications across the platforms. Say what you will about Facebook (you’re probably right), but if they’re that bad, then it seems logical to me to connect to their federated service even more aggressively.

The more we push our content (and by extension the Fediverse content that kbin aggregates), the less impact their algorithm can have. The more we go out of the way to expose their content, the harder we make it them to curate/censor/suppress any voices. And if, when comparing two Fediverse instances or softwares, we find that what’s been pushed to them is different, we the users can call it out to news organizations (or make it public ourselves).

And yes, I know I’m making the arguments for supporting private companies in adopting open-source. It’s about being able to audit what companies we don’t trust are doing.

In addition to that, I’m currently a Threads user. Anecdotally, there’s a lot of wholesome content on there that I appreciate, and what limited advertising is there is nowhere near as obtrusive as Reddit or the main Facebook platform.

Pitchfork being on an alternative social platform just feels right to me. So I say, go for it.

I think it’s time to shut it down, hard. That’s the start of something that will not end well for human beings.

Flipboard was neat originally, but never really held my attention.

Oh great. Jurassic Park, here we go.

Honestly, given the ruckus they’ve been raising for a while now, my feeling is that Beehaw wants to push themselves away from society as a whole. I don’t agree with their perspective, which is part of why I never engage with much of their content or users. All I can say is that I wish them only the best for their echo chamber.

When the shoe fits, start wearing it. PRC is an authoritarian state led by a dictator and his cronies.

RIP. He was a great comedian, and a valuable lesson to us who grew up watching. I hope wherever his spirit ends up, he can be at peace.

Drugs can do that to a person.

Corn growth and other subsidies are profitable to the government, because the money comes back to them in lobbying/bribery.

Fossil fuels gave us the technology to get where we are today. We have overcome natural limits for centuries. I believe we can continue to do that.

Profit above all else is how the world has worked for centuries. You’re right it’s what brought us where we are. We have an increasing ceiling of education, the greatest overall mobility (socially and spatially), vast swathes of entertainment and communication, at least outside of some nations where there’s a major problem politically and socially. People are not going to give up that comfortable society they’ve become accustomed to. Unless you can make this change immediately profitable, which is unlike most change, people are not going to accept it.

Dumping money/metal into the oceans cannot be made profitable. Even if it can, there’s always going to be a more profitable use for that material.

Maybe human civilization is only meant to exist until fossil fuels are depleted?

I suggest we collect them and a bunch of other Asian fish, then go about returning them to Asia.

This is half of what we should be doing for power. The other half should be nuclear.

Sure, and 2023 will finally be the year of Linux Desktop.

As opposed to many of you, I look forward to Meta joining up with ActivityPub. I’ve learned to embrace Eternal September; and have come to understand the debt I owe to it. Companies win, yes. I haven’t used Google chat in years. I don’t bother keeping a copy of Gaim/Pidgin on my PC because I don’t want to bother talking with anyone in a Jabber chat (Yeah, yeah, it’s XMPP now, I started when it was Jabber and I was on the mothership server). Everyone I need to talk to moved from GChat to Skype, and then at some point, from Skype to Discord. They never stopped at Jabber, Mumble, or other OSS options; though some joined me in passing through. As I’ve said, human nature is opposed to load-balancing. People want to be part of the largest possible community, at least at first.

I would love to have an easy way to talk to local friends again, and have a wide base of information to share with them. If this new system is easier to coordinate local groups with than Meetup is, I’ll be joining and becoming a fairly active user. I might keep my Lemmy accounts, my Mastodon account, and my KBin account - just like I’m keeping my Reddit account now.

If servers want to defederate from Facebook, that’s their loss.

Okay, I’m fine with borrowing a term from post-cyberpunk transhuman works - infogee. We’re leaving one place and seeking something still. Rather than physical refuge, we seek information. We could also be called commugees, as many of us seek community. If you wish to retain refugee to mean “a person seeking physical refuge”, I understand it; but understand that the connotation will still be understood, and we all understand that our hardships are not theirs.