I used to agree with the second paragraph, but watching videos of pigs/cows/chickens being slaughtered changed my mind. Imo their prior treatment doesn't really negate what happens there- and even if it did, I couldn't use ideal farm conditions as a defense when the vast majority of meat I've been eating is raised under less ideal conditions.
Methods of slaughtering them are terrible and absolutely criminal.
One good thing PETA has done is raise awareness about how the meat industry treats its animals - I'll give them that, definitely.
PETA itself is an organization I place in the same category as a cult, though. Their own practices make the sincerity of their intentions almost blatantly questionable.
In general, finding an exploit requires looking for little tiny details that could exist in, really, any area of a given system; looking for a bug, and then exploiting that bug by understanding how input data can be used to create a deterministic chain of events.
This almost always requires thinking outside of the box.
There are people who are also paid to find these before malicious actors do.
It's always going to be creative in some way, at least in the beginning.
It's like when people first discover Quake's fast inverse square root. Sure, the first time around it seems genius. In reality, code like that is actually everywhere, and there is a somewhat trivial aspect to optimizing those kinds of problems.
The big corps have always had a right wing bias. The corps bend over backwards to cator to these asshats while shitting all over the left.
You speak as if they care about politics; they don't have a bias that exists outside the realm of publicity.
Their "politics" is based on maximizing revenue.
That's the world we live in, and framing them as political enemies who "side with the right" isn't constructive - it completely misses the entirety of the dynamic that we live in, and if you miss that, good luck getting anywhere.
Those on Meta would then go "Huh, Lemmy?" and look into it. It's essentially free passive advertising by any Lemmy user.
Lemmy is growing to the point where, for more than a week, a lot of adjustments had to be made to various instances to handle the scale.
I'm not against it growing more by any means, but I think it's worth recognizing that, as Meta enters the Fediverse, it's not going to stop with Threads. Eventually it will likely find better ways to interact with Lemmy, Matrix, etc.
A common theme at the moment is that we have communities sharing a same content category, but each community is spread throughout different instances. An example is the different general programming communities.
It's possible - perhaps even likely - that, eventually, most of the communities for a given category will fade out, and people will naturally converge toward one instance for a given category.
There is the chance that Meta becomes an instance for many of these. What happens from there is that Meta has ownership over these communities.
Yall seem to be purposefully ignoring reality to throw a tantrum over something that hasn't even happened yet. The fact you're all immediately screaming to block them before anything has happened is pathetically isolationist. That behavior will eventually carry over to how new users are treated and Lemmy will rot like Voat did.
Your mention of Voat is the first I've ever heard of it.
Anyway, not all of us are "screaming". Personally, I'm bordering on indifference - I don't have much control over it.
That said, assuming people actually want freedom from corporate ownership, I haven't seen an argument that makes a valid case for federating with Meta.
Federation with Meta is not necessarily mutually exclusive with this, but it's thin ice. And history has shown time and time again with the Internet that this is the case.
Of course, there are some good things that come from that kind of integration - irrespective of user adoption; it's not all bad.
Edit: Too many of you are taking your reddit garbage over here. This isn't the same site. But nah, you're just gonna instantly downvote anything you disagree with while not engaging remotely because you can't offer up a convincing argument. Especially when the question answered.
I'm not downvoting you, but it's clear you're frustrated. I'm not a huge fan of Reddit's group think, either, so I understand.
He's a product of the digital landscape that we live in today.
Reddit has improved considerably over the years.
As much as I personally don't want to use their app, they've done a reasonable amount to actually clean up the site.
The old Reddit had a lot of garbage and a lot of garbage people. This will help to prevent that from being an issue in the future.
There's probably always going to be some kind of groupthink circlejerk happening in the background; it's annoying and gives reddit a bad name, but it's usually harmless.
There is the potential for federation to grow massively with the injection of billions from big tech.
Sure, of course it would grow. But at what cost? And then who effectively owns it in the end? There's an inevitable outcome - one that you apparently aren't aware of.
Don't we want these big platforms to adopt ActivityPub?
No. We don't. The more hands they have in the fediverse pie, the more influence they have over it. The more influence they have, the more control. The more control, the more at the whim of their decisions you are. The more at the whim of their decisions, the more power they have over you.
Methods of slaughtering them are terrible and absolutely criminal.
One good thing PETA has done is raise awareness about how the meat industry treats its animals - I'll give them that, definitely.
PETA itself is an organization I place in the same category as a cult, though. Their own practices make the sincerity of their intentions almost blatantly questionable.