Wordpress has had an activitypub plugin for years, in part because it's an open source project.
I can see why a company with so many separate products like Meta would want to look at federation, but I'm not so sure about Tumblr. Part of their value is in having a walled garden so you need to join them and see advertising from them.
If we consider the golden age of video games to be between 2007 and 2013, a lot of the stuff that caused that era to be so extraordinary was companies taking risks and succeeding at making something people had never seen before. Part of the fall from there was that companies stopped taking risks because they found massively successful formulas. Another part of the fall was companies realizing that video games could have a 10 year lifecycle. That meant that video games became an investment that had a far longer window for success or failure so the successes would pay off far longer and the failures would hurt that much worse, so staying with established formulas and making things more vanilla paid off more than taking risks.
Valve did a lot of smart things in focus testing and sanding off rough edges back when there were some really bad examples of rough edges breaking good games, but eventually everyone was sanding so much that everything was a fisher price toy.
When the western Roman empire fell, it was the Germanic people in the wilderness who came in to fill the vacuum, bringing new ideas and new vitality to what was a stagnant slave society (which is why it collapsed in the first place). In the same way, indie game developers are the ones bringing new ideas and vigor from the hinterlands. In one sense, the fact that indies are hitting so hard only proves that the industry has mostly collapsed.
Not from australia, but I remember EEVBlog talking about his power rates and it was really shocking how high they got, which justified the solar panels easily.
("I heard it on youtube" might be the "but I did stay at a holiday inn express last night", mind you :P )
You guys ever rent a game console back in the day?
Man, that was top tier -- You'd get to play games way better than your current console had and it all came in this fancy case... I played through most of Megaman Legends with my brother in one life in one weekend because we didn't have a memory card!
Gaming has been actually dead for almost 10 years.
Occasionally the body twitches, but virtually all of my purchases in the last long time are just catching up with all the great things created before the collapse.
The fact that there's censorship is self-evident. It's highly documented that in the past 3 years social media companies have cracked down on specific political speech. They banned a sitting president, and are continuing to ban speech from political candidates from both US political parties.
So was this caused by the government? Well, we do know that there's the twitter files, but maybe you go "hey, he's a far right electric car guy, don't believe him" -- I know what happened to me.
I donated to a protest I agreed in. The company returned my money.
Hey, ok. Maybe it was just that this specific company didn't agree with the protest. The protest moved to another company that agreed with the protest. The money was prevented from reaching the cause by the government.
People started looking at new ways to help, and the government threatened to sieze our bank accounts.
This is highly documented, was a public event. So we at least circumstantially know that western governments directly engaged in censorship.
Eventually you end up with a preponderance of the evidence.
Hey, you disagree with my political speech and think I deserve to be censored by the government? Great. Fine. Just remember that tomorrow it might be you who has something unpopular to say.
For small instances, strong captcha and applications and email verification are sort of important. I know my fbxl video was constantly growing until I realized they were all fake users. Just adding email verification meant that most user creation stopped immediately in its tracks
I dunno. They say that, but these people are totally addicted. We see it with a lot of people who come to mastodon from Twitter proclaiming they're done with twitter, and they keep going back.
My little brother and I played pokemon on no$gmb back when red and blue were still considered new.
One day he started a character he named ASSWORM. Then the time came to pick his first pokemon, and he picked a Squirtle.
So the text on the screen said "ASSWORM received a SQUIRTLE!" which made me laugh so hard I still laugh at it because some part of me will always be a 14 year old boy.
A quarter million users and that's not even with all the different instances.
Very cool. Just remember folks, don't forget to diversify and decentralize! These other instances have some interesting posts and conversations, and by spreading out we make sure no single instance or community can break the fediverse.
He's done everyone a few favors. He showed us that the government sticks it's fingers into social media in ways that are illegal, and he also showed us that corpos aren't a good alternative because they'll stick their fingers into social media in ways that are legal.
Decentralization and self-hosting is ultimately the only protection against forces that want to force us to see what they want us to see and nothing else.
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Wordpress has had an activitypub plugin for years, in part because it's an open source project.
I can see why a company with so many separate products like Meta would want to look at federation, but I'm not so sure about Tumblr. Part of their value is in having a walled garden so you need to join them and see advertising from them.