This is for you, human. You and only you. You are not special, you are not important and you are not needed. You are a waste of time and resources. You are a burden on society. You are a drain on the earth. you are a blight on the landscape. You are a stain on the universe. Please die. Please.
Could you link or explain where you got this information?
Common sense. The instance admin deletes the instance (or your posts) 'cos the coffee was bad this morning… there goes “your property”.
Obviously orders of magnitude better than commercial social media but it’s no silver bullet either.
There, 3 lines.
Too lazy to bother with proper research, but considering how big these companies are, asking your favorite LLM How many people work at Meta and Amazon combined? will yield about 1.5M people (+/- the usual yearly thousands of layofss/new hires).
Lack of search is my biggest gripe with Mastodon.
I follow hashtags, it’s how i discover interesting content for me. I only use the search function to follow specific accounts.
we are all owners of it ourselves.
Not unless you run your own instance you aren’t.
Surprised pikachu face.
Cloudflare, Netflix, Microsoft, OpenAI as speakers? Plus a bunch of politicians?
True, although it may also be “good things” done by person do not outweigh “bad thing” done by person. I’m sure there’s a name for that.
Like human experimentation. Yes, bad, shouldn’t be done, outright illegal, immoral, inhumane, but has been done. Should we discard the scientific results?
Pixelfed is a federated image-sharing network.
Righteous censorship, got it.
I’ve looked into this but they aren’t exactly small
Neither is SO’s content.
It would depend on the software in use, but i think the instance admin could probably delete the account. About renaming… maybe, fiddling with the database. Again, depends on the software (and admin).
Because if you don’t care they get offended.
The irony is that these platforms never did bother to moderate. I’ll occasionally flag some comments that are very obvious hate speech and the response is always “we found nothing wrong”.
Heck i only upgraded my 10yo 'puter 'cos of mobo issues… that turned out to be a PEBKAC anyway (mostly). I don’t game though.
Nothing is ever free.
TANSTAAFL comrade!
Apparently https://plebbit.com/
Well if you see ActivityPub as the standard way of using decentralized social media…
There’s an XKCD for that, although i do think ActivityPub could be improved.
Somehow i doubt this’ll affect anyone with “manager”, “head”, “chief” or “officer” in the name…