Dodecahedron December @ rarely @sh.itjust.works

I try things on the internet.

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Its kind of annoying seeing amazon and walmart on the same internet as well.

Weed is illegal federally, but it keeps getting produced at a state level. This really worries me, si to try to rectify this situation, I have just been buying and burning as much as I can. I don't know how much of an effect its having because I just keep seeing more pop up.

I will continue despite it seeming more and more like a fools errand.

Not yet. I am working on, it give it time.

Federation is complicated enough that under 30s and over 50s haven't caught on much yet.

Be the change...

Get these people away from your children. Call ACAB if you need to and shuttle them out, just get these groomers away from children!

Remember kids, cops are no one's friend.

Meta evil and people I think may not understand that meta will read/mine your public fediverse activity if it wants to, regardless of federation status.

People may not know how sites block other search engine crawlers (scrapers like google) and it may surprise them realize that all that's done is adding a line to a text file that says "if you call yourself a xyz browser then you can't scrape" and hope that the crawler reads and obeys that request. We arent talking about iron clad defenses here. The same goes for defederating.

Defederating from facebook will remove the means for facebook to actually federate the way we are used to seeing on lemmy - we wont see their content, we can't react to their content, and at least at the beginning they wont see our content.

But if they wanted to, facebook could just consume the lemmyverse and show the top posts on facebook. The only thing that would stop them is a lawsuit. Even then, if they wanted to it would just come down to money - cost of a fine vs cost of losing facebookers to the fediverse.

Facebook needs to only emulate the fediverse as they have emulated the rest of the internet into facebook. Hell, if they wanted to they could just show friends the content their friends consumes on the fediverse and build public forums around that content. Kind of like how facebook (and reddit, etc) work.

Folks may want an option to completely wall-out facebook from ever observing any of their actions on the fediverse. Its a nice idea but it's not something that defederating brings. Public internet is public to all, unfederated, including facebook.

Of course we can request that facebook not scrape the fediverse and complain when they do, but I don't see that as having much momentum for change.

What they don’t know will hurt them, sadly.

Welp.