BraveSirZaphod @ BraveSirZaphod @kbin.social

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Mate, this person is either too stupid or too unwilling to actually give a real response to you. Please save your sanity.

This may be a cynical view, but even if that does happen, the core ActivityPub protocol will still be intact and at worst be relegated to a small community of tech nerds, which is to say, basically the status quo.

Facebook, and literally anyone else, can already get all your content.

It would take all of a second to scrape your user page. Obviously that wouldn't grant your IP address or anything, but neither would federation.

It's publicly sitting on the internet.

Meta also doesn't need to federate in order to do that, since federation just accesses public data.

It's this collapse in truth that worries me more than anything. People will simply ignore reality rather than admit that this is more complicated than good side v. bad side.

You might remember that because of the filibuster, 41 Senators can block a bill from advancing, and despite that, quite a lot of bills got passed 51-50. Mitch McConnell could have stopped any and all of those bills if he wanted. It's probably not a coincidence that those passed and that Biden and McConnell have had a generally cordial relationship for decades.

I'd say that the more accurate version of that premise is that people will exert some limited amount of effort in order to avoid ads (or fees, for that matter), and the challenge for the service provider is to make blocking ads more annoying than simply paying the fee. The real question is how successful Google will actually be at that, and that is admittedly a bit of an open question. That said, we know that there is a limit to how much effort people will put in, because it's not that hard to pirate literally anything, but plenty of people don't bother with piracy because it's a hassle.

It'll be interesting to see how things ultimately shake out. Google is in a bit of a privileged position though, given that they own the service and the browser most people are viewing YouTube. There's also more and more of a shift towards watching it on mobile devices and TVs, where they can control the client environment a lot more tightly. And at the end of the day, it is a solvable problem; beyond that, they don't have to even win the cat and mouse game. They just have to make playing it annoying enough that most people won't bother.

"Logical conclusion" does not mean that you suddenly add in an unjustified premise of "all people will endure some amount of hassle to use an ad blocker".

I think the best analogy is Netflix's password sharing, which not only didn't hurt them, but actually brought them a lot of subscribers.

If you casually state you'd wish for a third diaspora, you'll have to forgive me for thinking that you're not, in fact, fine with Jews.

And what happened to that last ceasefire, pray tell?

I think you're overestimating how many people care enough about this.

Remember when killing password sharing was gonna be the death of Netflix, and then they saw a significant increase in subscriptions and profits?

You have no value to advertisers if they can't serve you ads. By not doing so, they'll also cut down on bandwidth costs, so it's a double positive for them.

Revealed preferences. As much as people won't admit it, these services do provide legitimate value, and they also cost a lot of money to operate.

Just yesterday, they allowed Washington to ban gay conversion therapy under the basis that regulating medical therapy is reserved to the states. A few years back, Gorsuch supported a ruling banning workplace discrimination of LGBT people under the logic that it's sex-based discrimination.

To be clear, Alito and Thomas are straight-up partisan hacks, but the others have some manner of legal ideology, even if it leads to terrible results sometimes. Beyond that, they have lifetime appointments. They don't need Trump anymore and owe him nothing.

There are millions of Jews in Israel (or their children), right now, who are there because they were forcibly expelled from other Arab countries in the Middle East.

Why do you think there's a 3000 year old synagogue in Aleppo, and only around four Jews in all of Syria?

Trump would support turning Gaza into a field of glass, but by all means, tell yourself you're helping.

If a new SCOTUS decides that marriage historically and thus always must mean a relationship between a man and a woman, yeah, I'm gonna fucking blame the voters.

Because the vast majority of Americans believe that a state of Israel has the right to exist in some fashion, which is all that Zionism means.

It does not mean wholehearted support for literally everything its government does, which Biden very much does not have. He and Netanyahu are not exactly friends.