It pains me to defend a corpo, but calling Google unreliable for their "fling shit and see what sticks" methodology for developing new products is inaccurate. Google/Alphabet is actually one of the most reliable corpos in the tech sphere, relatively-speaking, if you analyze their core products throughout the years.
Yes, it does feel like Google retires projects faster than they instantiate them. But that's by design. The core product (selling advertising on SERPs/YouTube/AdWords/etc) is about as reliable as it gets, and that's where they get their money.
"We need to tighten the purse strings!!1" quickly became "open the coffers!" as soon as they hit a speed bump.
Seriously epic. With the amount of vote manipulation going on over there, this will be a complete and utter failure. I guarantee it will be pulled in a month or two.
This post is weird. You're typing like you're in charge of things, but you're apparently not.
It's one thing to show some initiative, but you're literally demanding a full report like the Lemmy devs work for you. You sound like someone who does this kind of thing for a living and felt the need to flex. Because otherwise, what the hell are you even doing?
Setting neurotically-specific demands for the developers makes sense if you represent a big instance or something, but you're literally just a dude. You could have framed this entire post in a different way and gotten away with it. Right now, it's creepy to anybody who actually reads the entire thing.
Strawman arguments can be factual. The entire point is that you're responding to something that wasn't the argument. You're putting words in their mouth to defeat them instead of addressing their words at face value. It is the definition of a strawman argument.
Defederating from Threads in a preemptive fashion is nothing more than reactionary nonsense based on bad history. It literally makes no sense. Who the fuck cares what Meta does? All of the "consequences" I've read so far come across like bad fanfic at best. The analogies to Microsoft are false equivalencies.
I'll make it simple: I'll leave if lemmy.world defederates things preemptively. People need to understand that this idea has been around forever and has worked forever. Looking a gift horse like Threads choosing to join up (if it actually does federate - I highly doubt it) in the mouth is absolutely insane.
Why are the doomers not talking about how best to steal users from Threads instead of just assuming this entire thing collapses the second a company with capital joins? How can this be considered a sustainable (again, looong-ago proven) system if a single company can pop in and ruin it?
This federation stuff is nothing new. Nobody calls emailing a network, they call it a tool. That is what ActivityPub is. This culture of glorification surrounding "federation" is silly.
There is no "should be" when it comes to tools. Only what people use them for.
The bits about "ad-free" were clearly because who the hell would've thought Facebook of all companies would pop into the ActivityPub scene? I'm sure they would adjust that statement now.
If you're able to link them here (still learning) I will add them to the sidebar. "bugs" on lemmy.world will just be a mostly fluffy place for pretty pictures and quick IDs so it would be epic to be able to point people towards more scientific or specialized communities!
Should be fixed. The instructions specifically say include "either" that format or the one I used. Why did the one I chose (at random) not work, out of curiosity?
It's the latter.