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How does this instance feel about this growing pact against federating with Meta? in c/main@sh.itjust.works

[–] dr_dour@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Can Meta scrape the data off other apps like mastodon from federated communities? I don't exactly know how that works. I'm assuming mastodon and other not profit based apps don't track any data so how would meta joining the fediverse change it?

I think it's all but given that meta would have the largest number of users using its apps in the fediverse. Threads already has 2 million sign-ups in hours so it would be a miss to just defederate from it and lock down millions of users from interacting with meta users. Let's see how it goes.

Edit: 5 million sign-ups in 4 hours according to zuck

What AI developments have surprised you the most? in c/singularity@lemmy.fmhy.ml

[–] dr_dour@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

thispersondoesnotexist.com has been around since 2019

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Men hunt and women gather? Large analysis says the long-held idea is flat-out wrong (www.livescience.com)

submitted 1 year ago by dr_dour@sh.itjust.works to c/science@mander.xyz

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Men hunt and women gather? Large analysis says the long-held idea is flat-out wrong (www.livescience.com)

submitted 1 year ago by dr_dour@sh.itjust.works to c/science@lemmy.ml

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In a world first, Australia legalizes psychedelics to treat mental health (interestingengineering.com)

submitted 1 year ago by dr_dour@sh.itjust.works to c/science@lemmy.ml

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New glass cuts carbon footprint by nearly half and is 10x more damage resistant (www.psu.edu)

submitted 1 year ago by dr_dour@sh.itjust.works to c/science@lemmy.ml

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Finally a nice Twitter alternative.. in c/memes@lemmy.ml

[–] dr_dour@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Eh... All the data is already with meta through Instagram, it's users is the target here. I'm sure most of Instagram users aren't complaining that much about collection of data. As long as this kills twitter I'm happy. Who knows it might point the rest of the users towards eventual decentralisation.

As Twitter flounders, Mastodon refreshes its official app for Android users in c/android@lemmy.world

[–] dr_dour@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

You probably found a bunch of people with niche (if any) interests and/or friends from Twitter or other social media who are active enough for your feed to be populated. A lot of people use twitter to follow news, celebrities, journalists and shitposting accounts with large following as there's lots of discussions under tweets with massive reach. Most people don't interact themselves at all but just scroll. Mastodon doesn't have these big accounts as of now so there's not much activity for the majority of regular twitter users.