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Glad you liked it! Yeah, I love Perlman's rendtion, but Heifetz's just takes the cake for me. The ending is too real.

I don't get my news from any social media platform, including lemmy, no offense to lemmy. I used to do that with reddit, but it's just too unhinged getting your news that way.

I stick with Associated Press, Reuters, and The New York Times, in that order. I also use Google News specifically for local news, but I don't even peek at the main world news feed there.

More generally speaking, I stick to the old school human editorial board for my news. News that's presented to me on AP, for example, has already been filtered by a board of humans who are smarter than me and whose opinions I trust on the state of the world. Opening up your selection of news to an easily gameable social media algorithm is just more trouble than it's worth, in my opinion.

Cool, sounds like it's coming along well. I'll give it another shot next update or so :)

Thunder was pretty snappy. I didn't know about that one, so I tried it just now. I'm afraid to say I think I like Liftoff better still, because Thunder uses swipe gestures for a few things and is missing a few "top" sorts, but it seemed like it has potential.

I found out that I'm allergic to Preparation H

Liftoff is what I've settled on, so far. I've found it to have the best performance of all the Android options.

Bach's Chaconne from his violin partita in D minor.

It's a song that was written around the time when Bach's wife died, and if you listen hard enough, you can almost hear that it's about her. It sounds like there are two voices, a low voice and high voice, who meet and fall in love with each other, and experience all the highs and lows of life and then are torn away from each other by death in the end. And it's all done with just notes on a violin. And what's more, it was written 300 years ago! It trips me out thinking about how somebody can write something so epic for a single instrument so long ago.

Jacsha Heifetz's version of it is my favorite. Some people don't like how fast he plays it, but he does the ending the best, in my opinion. You can hear the pain and denial and chaos of the two voices trying to enjoy their last moments together and leave nothing unsaid between each other most clearly the way Heifetz plays it.

Itzhak Perlman's version is very good too. He plays at a slower pace than Heifetz, and has a more epic sounding tone. The highs and lows are generally more epic sounding the Heifetz, but I don't quite understand how Perlman plays the ending. I have no doubt that he's trying to tell the same story as Heifetz, but there isn't any of that pain and chaos like Heifetz has. I've seen interviews with Perlman, and he seems like a very happy and well adjusted guy, so maybe that explains why his ending is so different. Maybe that's just how the ending is for happy people like that, and I can't comprehend it.

There are other good renditions to check out too, but Heifetz and Perlman are my favorites. Hillary Hahn and Nathan Milstein are other popular ones. Plus a bunch of others. That's another cool thing about Chaconne. Everybody has their own rendition.

!android@lemmy.world was the 15th largest community in the fediverse with 19k subscribers, and then the mods conspired with the r/android mods to lock that community and move it to !android@lemdro.id. All of this was done with no input from the users subscribed there.

That of course led to a flame thread yesterday, and a whole bunch of debate about whether !android@lemmy.world should be reopened or not. It appears to be locked still, so not sure how that debate ended.

But I said it shows how fragile communities are because that was about as blatantly obvious of a community snatch as there possibly could be. Like 10 mods got in a room and said "let's just move this huge community to a new instance" and it worked. There's no way we're going to stop Meta if we can't even stop that.

I hate to admit it, but it's beginning to look like resistance really is futile. Too many people just don't care about EEE, and communities are too fragile to prevent the embrace, like the whole c/android incident from yesterday.

It seems like this is just going to be something that happens every once in a while. A rich douchebag comes in and absorbs a large chunk of the fediverse then cuts away and takes a bunch of shitposters with him. Then the core lemmy community has to rebuild the fediverse from scratch, and some other douchebag lines up to do the same thing.

I guess on the bright side, maybe the core group of lemmy users will harden their fediverse each time a rich douchebag EEEs it. Like the core fediverse learns something new with each EEE. Then maybe after like a decade and 3 or 4 rich douchebags EEEing the place, then the fediverse will have fully hardened to some form that makes it impervious to rich douchebags.

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I talked to this one pro-Meta federation person yesterday who was really hung up on the fact that they'd be able to hang out with their Meta friends on a more privacy aware fediverse app. I tried to explain how EEE would work in the context of lemmy, and how their privacy dream is all a moot point because Meta will inevitably kill the fediverse and force them to Threads in the end, but the other person just kept going "yeah yeah, I get that... but if we federate, then I'll be able to hang out with my Meta friends."

I don't know, they just had tunnel vision about being able to hang out with their friends, or were in the denial stage of grief about EEE or something.

If you pay attention to my response, I've said that if you close them now, considering how many users they've amassed in like 1 day you would have to join threads

Yeah, that's what the defederaters are advocating. You can't mix Meta with the fediverse, because Meta will consume it. So if you want to participate in Threads, then you have to join Threads.

Assuming the collective fediverse goes through with defederating from Meta, then there's nothing stopping anybody from creating their own little niche in the fediverse that remains federated with Meta. I wouldn't argue against that.

I like Gnome the best too. In my experience, it's the desktop environment that focuses the most on making sure that no little bugs slip in. Like normally when you're using a desktop environment, it will be good except for a few bugs here and there where you have to remember weird things like not backing out of the settings menu in a certain way in order to not trigger a bug. Gnome seems to have the least amount of weird little bugs like that.

It's not very configurable out of the box, but I prefer that too. I'm getting a bit old and set in my ways, and don't really want to mess around with too much configuration anymore.

You say you understand my point about the threat of Meta consuming the entirety of the fediverse, but then you talk about privacy, which is completely irrelevant to my point. What does privacy matter when Meta gains 95% share of the fediverse communities and then closes them off to only Threads users? In that situation, your privacy is completely gone. You have to join Threads to get back in to the old fediverse that Meta took away.

You're not understanding that growth on fediverse instances run by Meta is ultimately bad for the fediverse in the long run.

Let me try explaining like this: Imagine there's an instance called meta.world and it gets hugely popular. Whenever you browse the all feed, it seems like 95% of the posts are from meta.world. Everybody hates that it ended up this way, and everybody tried to fight it, but it just inevitably happened because Meta has the fastest and most stable servers, and because there are a ton of funny users on Threads who only post to meta.world because Threads heavily favors those communities in their app. Then one day Meta decides that they don't want to support the fediverse anymore, so they close off access to meta.world. So effectively 95% of the "fediverse" as we knew it vanishes, and you have to join Threads if you want access to those communities again.

It's the threat of that scenario that has a lot of people wanting to block Meta from the start.

It depends on how many communities are on Meta's instances. Imagine if a year from now, Meta's instances are all the rage. It's like lemmy.world on crack, where 95% of the communities you see browsing all are from meta.world. Everybody hates that it ended up this way, but that's just the way it shook out because Meta has the best performing servers and a huge population of shitposters on Threads creating funny memes who probably don't even know instances besides meta.world even exist.

But then Meta decides they're done with the fediverse and decides to close off access to meta.world. Now 95% of the fediverse is effectively vanished, and you either have to switch to Threads to regain access to those communities, or you have to stay on the 5% of the fediverse that's still left and basically start from scratch all over again.

The argument for defederating is that Meta has an enormous technological and userbase advantage for capturing up all the activity in the fediverse. It's not out of the realm of possibility that the overwhelming majority of future activity on the fediverse happens on Meta controlled instances, if we let them have free reign capturing as much of the fediverse as they can. In that case, with Meta effectively controlling the fediverse, then they don't really need to play nice anymore. They can introduce a breaking API change and hold all of the non-Meta instances ransom saying to upgrade to their new API, or you won't be able to participate with their fediverse communities anymore.

So it's basically a question of do we nip the Meta issue in the bud and preemptively defederate from them, or do we wait until they take over and force us to restart from scratch two years from now.

That YSK thread from yesterday inspired me to create a new account with an anonymous relay email, instead of my personal email. I'm not sure how much I would've actually had to worry about if I kept using my personal email, but I figure it's better to be safe than sorry.

I also probably could've just changed the email in my first account instead of creating a brand new account, but I don't really know how data is persisted or anything. That was another case of better to be safe than sorry.