So, I really want to be optimistic about this project. I love that it integrates multiple sources, that it lets you use different identities that are not attached to any of these services. I installed it and already paid for it even, because I love initiatives like this.
I think it's unsustainable. In 5 years, everyone who'd use the app's already paid for it, which means the devs have no incentive to continue to work, and funding dries up. When that happens, they'll of course just let the app run until the plugins stop working. Nobody will be able to pick it up and continue development in an open forum because it's not FLOSS.
My hope is they re-license it under a copyleft license later, but I'm not optimistic about that happening. With how things are now, it does appear to be doomed to enshittification.
So, what if they purposely turn your feeds to shit, and have an obnoxious ad at the top of every screen saying: Don't like your feed? Change your privacy settings to make it more personalised!
They're really not though? You can't just switch off AGPL without explicit permission of every person who's contributions to the project are being relicensed.
NZ and Philippines are often early test markets for western markets and asia respectively. I'm thinking it's likely that one of the marketing guys convinced Elon to slow his roll and that's why it's only rolling out to a small userbase, rather than being implemented for every user at once like his bad ideas always are.
For likes, maybe. Retweets? That's gotta be at least $100/month. That's not outside the standard for being able to reuse posts from websites like shutterstock, and other sharable media websites.
To my recollection, Aotearoa and the Phillipines are both common countries for market trials, right? I wonder if he's looking to see the response (ElonMuskquestioninghimself?Hashegainedsentience?) or if he's specifically looking to see what impact it has on how much it costs to operate in that country?
Either way, I hope they raise the price before the international rollout.
You say you want good faith discussion, but you've completely nixed the main point we have today, with no room for argument. You may not know it, but you are coming at this in bad faith.
As a result, as the number of instances increases, the load on the network also increases. Ironically I think it should be the other way around
It'd be neat if there was some form of peer-to-peer activity-push to resolve this; basically offload your pushes to other instances, and in return they can offer some of theirs to yours. I think that gets quite difficult though, especially as large lists of federated/whitelisted/defederated instances come into play.
I like that bbc.social has a self-authenticating gTLD; a step up from a self-authenticating domain lol