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The lead Lemmy developer (who also runs this instance) published his Marxism Study Plan online. In fact, it's on the same GitHub he uses to develop Lemmy.

The same devs also run Lemmygrad.ml, which is the more overt tankie instance of the two.

So yeah, I find it hard to believe that the .ml TLD was chosen for the devs' affinity with the country of Mali.

It's no surprise; the Lemmy developers are literally tankies. This instance's name literally ends in .ml (Marxism-Leninism).

Important to say, I mean products you use even though there are alternatives, not monopolies like YouTube.

I don't think this is quite true when it comes to YouTube. There are plenty of alternatives that content creators could use (and some do), from Vimeo to Nebula to PeerTube.

The reason content creators prefer to upload on YouTube are the user base and monetization opportunities. They're not forced to do so, and in fact YouTube is facing competition from e.g. Twitch and TikTok.

For Meta, it would be trivial to add support for communities if they wanted, given that they wrote the entire Threads backend in-house anyway.

Also, even if they don't support communities, their users might (perhaps even unknowingly) still be interacting with the Lemmyverse, just like Mastodon users can.

PCMCIA: People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms

Microsoft and Apple have offices around the world though, so it doesn't really make sense

GNU's Not UNIX

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor

WINE Is Not an Emulator

If you use WSL (which you should), you have a normal Bash, so it works

Ah, I understand now. The expression is evaluated like this:

• $a == 1 ? "one" : $a == 2 ? "two" : $a == 3 ? "three" : "other"
• $a == 2 ? "two" : $a == 3 ? "three" : "other"
• "two" ? "three" : "other"
• "three"

Ah, I understand now. The expression is evaluated like this:

• $a == 1 ? "one" : $a == 2 ? "two" : $a == 3 ? "three" : "other"
• $a == 2 ? "two" : $a == 3 ? "three" : "other"
• "two" ? "three" : "other"
• "three"

Will the real Jesus Christ please stand up?

So I wrote down some of my thoughts below, if you want to chat about it, feel free to leave a comment or DM me. (I don't have Matrix, sorry)

So the core component of any social network is the network effect. In short, the reason we use Lemmy is because others also use Lemmy. We wouldn't use it if there was nobody here (with thanks to Spez).

Indeed, that's why people still use Reddit, Facebook, or any social medium: they don't care about the platform, but about the people.

If Threads federates with Lemmy, they will instantly dominate the entire space: the most popular communities and most of the user activity will all be over there. (There are already 100M Threads users compared to under 2M Lemmy users, so this is essentially inevitable.)

If Meta would then later decide to defederate, the majority of Lemmings will be cut off from their communities. If in the meantime those communities had become important to them, their hand may be forced to sign up for Threads. Lemmy will survive, but it won't be the same for most of its users.

Essentially, we have a choice to make: either we welcome Threads and accept that we will be at the whims of Meta for >90% of our communities and content (given their massively higher user count), OR we choose to be independent at the cost of having smaller communities and less content.

I would argue though, that having smaller communities may even be a pro rather than a con. I've seen many comments that the smaller scale of the Fediverse feels like a breath of fresh air compared to Reddit (and personally I agree with that).

The biggest concern for me is that Microsoft and GitLab use your code to train their commercial AI.

But to be honest… what are we really getting out of federation for something like GitHub?

You already mentioned it: familiarity. If you want people to contribute to your project, you have to make it easy for them to do so.

Hi Ruud, you mention in the linked Lemmy thread that you don't see how Meta could ever EEE Lemmy.

I was wondering whether you've read the following blog post. If not, please do give it a read. It goes over how XMPP was embraced and then killed by Google, and the risks that same strategy poses for the Fediverse. I found it very enlightening.

https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

If you're resident in the EU, check out My Data Done Right

Others already gave some good suggestions, but if you want to keep using your computer, another option could be a second display and a drawing tablet (e.g. Wacom)

The use of 'railroad' instead of 'railway' would seem to indicate American English