Attempting solidarity pragmatically.
I don’t believe in imaginary property.
It’s a well founded worry.
Activitypub represents the lowest dev entry costs and as a bonus it comes with an audience. If Facebook is standing up a cheap competitor just to take advantage the barrier to entry is miniscule.
Given the trouble some users have noted deleting content (erasing also kills your Instagram account), it might also be a play to deprecate a duplicate platform under their control.
Ahh always nice to revisit my first dose of propaganda.
I would have downloaded a car if I could have.
So I didn’t make an account here for precisely this reason, I’m not really at risk of being targeted or triggered, so at the ‘edge’ of your community I can at least try to knock down some of the BS.
I have a feeling this is where the ‘eternal vigilance’ is going to be needed.
The trolls are gonna troll.
Just keeping them out of your discussions may reduce the noise, but it doesn’t stop them from conglomerating on the platform. Pointing out where they come to play feels like the only way to separate the good actors from bad at an instance level so they don’t wander in.
Long term science.
Nobody’s taped someone to a table and shot em with those rays. And there has never been more of them going around, so there’s no comparison either.
When we say something is a cure or cause it’s born out of a ton of testing and time.
Alright, more of a eli5 as I’m more folk knowledge than a scientist.
It’s a narrower (more dense) wavelength.
If you think of signal, any signal, how close you are to it, the total power of that signal and the quality of your receiving gear are going to be your three major factors in “speed”.
5g gains the ability to broadcast more waves iif you’re close, at the expense of distance.
If you’re looking to send communications further; wider (lower density) waves face less resistance. Just the same way you can seemingly get AM radio (bouncing off our atmosphere) anywhere vs FM radio (line of sight), each has a function.
You can find rural houses like mine, or the futures trades riding from the burbs to downtown with microwave (narrower than 5g) connections. They’re pretty atmosphere resistant but require tuning to hit relays the size of about a soda can.
I don’t think the longitudinal studies have been done on what frequencies over long periods of time produce negative results, the areas of spectrum we are working with have no real analogues in scope I’m aware of. Which is exactly why there’s room to scaremonger over it.
Anecdotally I’ve worked a decade in an adjacent field and never heard of anyone contacting the plague.
The slow movement feels like a feature in that I can see the trickle of communities get created, the new/all feed used to be such a dumpster fire.
I’m cynical as ever, but I think it’s a cash out.
There’s not a better incentive to build a better product when they ran most of the independent boards into the ground, leaving them at a relative high.
I don’t think there’s a universe they can compete with free when interest is going up. All the reversals and user hostile policies are going to drive people away, how quickly that bothers Hoffman, the board and ohanian is probably just a matter to how quickly they can unload through the IPO.
It’s a very interesting thought, but it will always struggle to account for variables you can’t see.
It’s always going to be designed top down to approximate your own development as human from the ground up. I don’t douby AI as a feasible possibility, but I don’t think we’re headed for digital clones. They’re always going to have some amount of the creators ghost or assumptions in the machine.