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That was then; this is now. A lot has changed in the last few years.

We on Lemmy

No shit. Didn't you get the memo that Lemmy was filled with Reddit transplants over a month ago?

What do you mean?

center leaning uninformed average Joes

That's quite a generalization

but we can just defederate with meta, right? Worst case we set up a new server with how we like stuff incase our server's admins don't want to

Not exactly. Technically that might be true, but what will probably happen is that Meta become so ubiquitos is that they'll influence the landscape such that no one else will want to use a non-Meta instance; that's their goal, after all.

Corpos gonna corpo.

Bring back Balmer.

Then we at least can be entertained while this "money talks; bullshit walks" charade continues.

So is Mark Zuckerberg. So is Bill Gates. So is Steve Jobs.

The businesses each of the above mentioned have built have done far more harm to humanity than Musk has.

Edit: after learning a few more things I'm going to retract this statement with full admittance that this was a dumb comment.

Yes, that's definitely true. There are narratives at play, ulterior motives everywhere, and of course Musk is playing his cards for the sake maximizing revenue.

In general, it's best to follow the money. That's the way our world works.

I didn't ask for it to be that way, but that's the way it is.

You should question the angle everywhere.

but I was trying to imply, in a properly generated password, 32 digits long is very secure.

I understand, and I think you make a valid point as far as the discussion is concerned.

It's unfortunately still a little more complicated than that, though.

Like I said, there's more to a password than length and symbol type.

Even something like cF*+@aXbIdFHje2vZiU-1 is less secure than if it were generated by a good PRNG.

D0@ndro!dsDr@3@m0f3l3ctr!cSh33p? is also insecure, though it might have been considered secure 4-5 years ago.

You see what I'm saying?

Then of course there's hash algorithms and how those are used to authenticate the passwords themselves, etc.

People get tribal over the dumbest shit.

Android > iPhone, motherfucker.

/s

Not true. Almost everyone's heard of Linux at this point - the hype surrounding the IT sector in the past decade has ensured that.

I wonder why you have that stance. Can you please explain?

I've already gone into this elsewhere. You'll find it if you scroll through my comment history, which isn't very long.

You can also read about the "enshittification" word that's been trending, or how this dynamic is nothing new and how the outcome is predictable given events that happened a decade ago with Google and XMPP.

At some point, history just repeats itself. Meta is a fucking terrible company that offers no real benefit to humanity, and will only serve to make things worse.

People like Elon Musk, at the very least, provide narratives that are realistic about what we're up against.

What people (apparently?) don't realize is that Meta is aware of the political landscape, and they're using that to their advantage.

They know that the left is so invested in their hatred of Musk that they'll be welcomed by them, but what the left doesn't realize is that Meta is a Trojan horse.

My opinion is that billionaires shouldn't be billionaires - it should be a crime to have that much wealth.

That said, they obviously do have that much wealth; the world obviously works a certain way and you must accept that if you want to improve things in any real capacity.

People see some billionares die in a sub accident. Yes, it was their fault. Yes, it was incredibly fucking stupid. Yes, the father was a bastard for being so ludicrously careless that he killed himself and his own son.

But they die and we laugh about it and make fun of them because it makes us feel better about ourselves.

And that's a weakness. It's low - undignified and an aspect of the Internet and its humanity that should only be treated with scorn.

Then you have these people hating Spez and what he did to Reddit while literally promoting the exact same inevitable outcome for Lemmy by cheering Threads on.

Where is the coherency? There is none - it's just mob outrage, and that level of incoherency is counter productive.

32 is a damn strong password

Not necessarily: only if it's generated properly, and only for the moment - that will change in the next few years.

You do realize that length and symbol type are only 2 out of many other factors that go into a strong password?

It's not a coincidence

Yes, it is. The coincidence is in the OP mentioning Threadiverse as if it's a common term and my misunderstanding by thinking that they're taking "Threads" and "Fediverse" and blending them together, thinking Meta coined it.

Threads are a forum thing. This is a thread.

No shit - hence why Threads had its name in the first place.

You can downvote me all you want; it won't make a difference.

wew

noob

I'll take it. It's not like I'm trying to pretend otherwise.

it's been called that since before threads.

Well, to be fair that's quite a coincidence.

no cap

Password can't exceed 32 characters

Garbage

Threadiverse

Begone

Edit: my bad

What about the severance for those employees?

I think it's important to be critical; Musk is someone who I tend to be neutral with, and I refuse to align myself with the "eLoN MuSk bad!!!!!" crowd, because I'm a fucking adult.