jocanib @ jocanib @lemmy.world

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If you make a bookmark on your bookmarks toolbar and put:

javascript:void(location.href="https://12ft.io/"+location.href);

in the URL field, whenever you hit a paywall you can click the bookmark and it'll take you straight to a 12ft.io version.

Doesn't often work with academic papers but it usually does for news and commentary.

E2A:

javascript:void(location.href="https://sci-hub.se/"+location.href);

is the equivalent for sci-hub (works well for academic papers) but you may need a VPN for some jurisdictions.

Oh. OK. If I am forced to make my own instance, I will cry.

Far-right figures, including Nazi supporters, anti-gay extremists, and white supremacists, are flocking to Threads

You're telling me to make my own instance because you want all instances to defederate?

Make it make sense.

5,000 users in a niche community would need hundreds of millions in the wider network.

This is how bulletin boards used to work. The most successful were focused on a niche and one with 5,000 users would be big enough to be of use to people interested in that niche. But when your niche is part of a much larger community covering all niches, that community needs to be vast to get 5,000 subscribing to any given niche.

I used it as a newsfeed (for the broadest possible meaaning of "news") with informed commentary attached. Most of the organisations, publications, writers and researchers I'm interested in were on there or would be injected into the feed by someone else.

Same as Reddit really. Just based on following individuals rather than topics.

I didn't post much, apart from retweets.

Specifically on she/they:

I use this on the internet sometimes because, when I give someone help on something technical, 90% of the time they thank an imaginary bloke. And if I correct them I'll get trolls harassing me and patronising pricks giving me tips for beginners (including, often, the person whose question I answered).

When you don't know, keep it neutral. Reinforcing stereotypes is harmful even if you mean no harm.

Do you understand what the word "most" means?

Completely support .ml defederating. But most Twitter/Reddit exiles want/need a bigger network for the breadth and depth of content they got from those sites. Universal defederation does nothing but hand those users (and their data) to Meta.

I want to get Meta's data without giving them my data. If there are no instances that allow me to do that, I will cry.

Completely harmless? C'mon.

Look, you're not entirely wrong. But this is a very gendered experience (as in, disproportionately affects women). Of course it happens the other way around, just nowhere near as often. You don't have to get so fucking defensive about it. This is the world you live in, deal with it.

Firstly, because some leftists are authoritarians (or, to be more precise, authoritarian followers). Authoritarian followers like strong leaders and strict rules and have absolutely no problem with the violent enforcement of those rules. As with all authoritarians, freedom is for people like them.

There's also what I think of as liberals stumbling left. They might work it out eventually but liberals have no analysis of power, so they end up doing politics by keyword. Mainstream centrists do exactly the same (Putin's communist oligarchy and all that).

It's an actual thing. When it feels more like you have a teenage son than a partner it's hard to get turned on by them, even if you weren't already too exhausted from clearing up after them.

They can, and do, scrape any public data I post regardless. As long as they cannot link it to my name, email address, phone number, bank account, social security number or health records, I don't care.

Mastodon does not have any of my data.

I want Meta's data without having to give Meta my data. Defederation is a perfectly reasonable action for any single instance but please, don't try to get all of them to do it.

They're not federated yet but they plan to be. (They launched in a bit of a hurry to take advantage of Musk's latest screw ups.)

The problem for the OP's argument is that it demands suicide from the Fediverse (instead of the murder that happened to XMPP).

If no instances federate with the massive network, some people will be forced to hand their data over to Zuckerberg to access that network. That would be a daft. I want to get Meta's data without having to give Meta my data.

Some instances will defederate (when the opportunity arises) and that's good. As long as it's not all of them. That would be bad.