Mozilla gotta do something.

And based on their actions on recent years, that something is probably going to be: 1) firing more developers, and 2) increasing the compensation of their CEO.

SAAL?

What’s a “home muffin”?

I remember I had to change a setting when using Windows. And it even showed me an “Are you sure?” dialog. It wasn’t that long ago. Is that not a thing anymore?

Only if you go into settings, disable the safety measures and change it. And some apps might break.

No, the default file path limit is 256 characters. And I don’t mean file name. Full file path.

People have been talking about the real problem from the beginning of the thread: small character limit on file paths.

Depending on the definition, loading a web page might me called an API, but that’s not what people mean when they talk about APIs.

Not because they care about the government. Because they care about hackers.

Creating encryption backdoors for the government means creating encryption backdoors for hackers. Because once encryption is weakened, it’s weakened.

I was going to ask the same. I didn’t know anyone outside the US used iMessage.

I think these news are overblown. There are many countries where temperatures of 115F are normal every summer, and people’s phones keep working normally.

If you’re worried about resources, point your complaints towards the US.

Ask yourself why you’re here, and you’ll find the answer. Or at least one of the answers.

Cats are nocturnal animals. Sunlight has the opposite effect on them.

It generates feelings associate with sleep time, like being relaxed or drowsy.

You mean he’ll bring Twitter valuation back to what it was?

Reason number one: it’s a publicly traded American company.

It’s the US. If there is a country that hates its citizens more than this one, I haven’t heard of it yet.

Any time they can take things from you and give it to companies, they will.

So it shouldn’t really be a surprise.

But if you forget to pay $1 to a company, all hell breaks loose.

It does, yes.

And since lots of people in the Fediverse support blocking popular competitors, like people in Mastodon talking about blocking/unfederating Threads, I’d say we’re making sure the Fediverse stays in obscurity forever. Never having a chance to become popular, never having a chance to convince people to leave proprietary platforms.

No, the Dunning-Kruger is what makes water easy to compress.

People have been repeating these fearmongering ideas, but with nothing concrete.

How is Threads going to destroy the fediverse if we make it easier for people to choose to come to Mastodon?

And how do you think that pushing people towards Threads is going to save the Fediverse?

And, like I said, if the entire protocol that the fediverse runs on is independent of Mastodon, how can Mastodon even stop it?

Not totally sure, but I don’t think that negotiating with Threads on anything at any point is a winning strategy. They’ll win every time. Kind of a ‘give them an inch they take a mile’ situation in my head.

Federating with them isn’t “negotiating” in any way.

Any fear of Threads controlling the protocol is out of our hands, because the protocol isn’t in the hands of the Mastodon devs, it’s in the hands of W3C. So no matter what Mastodon instances do, it won’t affect Threads and W3C.

At least by staying separate the user base will have to make a conscious decision about where they want to spend time instead of letting Meta dictate that for them in the future.

I think that by not federating with them, we’re TAKING AWAY the option for people to make a decision, and forcing the worst possible choice on them. Imagine I want to follow a guy that is really popular on Threads. If Mastodon federates with them, I can decide to make an account on Mastodon and follow the guy from the safety of a network that it not governed by algorithms that promote hate, or I can decide to make a Threads account and follow them there. It’s my choice.

But if Mastodon instances do NOT federate with Threads, the only way for me to follow that popular guy is by creating a Threads account and using the Threads app. By not federating, Mastodon removed my ability to choose and forced the worst possible option on me.

We should want MORE people using Mastodon, not fewer people. Let them follow Threads profiles from the safety of Mastodon.