@stopthatgirl7 This seems like quite the lift and shift. Moving to a new platform would definitely split their user based. I would also thin that any form of aggressive defederation would split their user base as well. From what I can tell, there are not many (if any) fediverse platforms that have the level of moderation tools they they are looking for.

Unfortunately, It just looks like they are in a tight spot. One the could make or break that community.

Sounds like they need their own mastodon server.

The biggest thing to note about the new messenger, by far, is that the developer intends to provide end-to-end encryption. More impressively, the app is intended to work with any Fediverse account.

This would make cross communication across the fediverse easier and may even interest others to join. It gives a leg up to the InstaRedFaceXTwitThreadApps since you can just use your one fediverse account.

There are definitely some open questions about how Sup works with the rest of the Fediverse. Do users just sign in to a service via an OAuth dance with their Fediverse accounts? Do the messages federate over ActivityPub? Does my server store my messages, or does just the app store those?

These questions and more would have to be answered before I signed up though.

in return for biometric data

Seems a little too invasive for me.

They are definately looking to make money off of it: https://www.feedough.com/how-google-maps-works-makes-money/

• Advertising
• Selling APIs
• Partnering with other Companies
• and, of course, data mining

#kbin which is like reddit + twitter. Somethings I post as threads (like reddit) some things I post as posts (like twitter). Then I hop between the two when reading. Posts fall under microblogs and federates with Mastodon. So it is like having thing I need in one account.

Isn’t that sort of like the fox watching the hen house?

No doubt, Google wants to be the only gateway to the web and control it.

“He who controls information controls the world”

• Tom Clancy

Gotta mine that data anyway you can!

I am just going to leave this right here: 5 Free and Open-Source Figma Alternatives.

Let him. Twitter is old news. Just like reddit. Irrelevant.

I asked about this in ChatGPT and it said no.

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Why do we need James Cameron’s commentary on everything now?

… trained on quite raw data, which included like a load of weird Reddit stuff, …

Probably all we need to know, right there.

They are not wrong. Just look at the health insurance industry in the US: https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertpearl/2023/01/16/us-healthcare-a-conglomerate-of-monopolies/?sh=66d271632e4d

Naaah. Keep the “influencers” over there.

@conciselyverbose It is these reasons I try to avoid smart everything (or as much as I can). It just seems so invasive.

looks like it. !msocial {{{string}} points to https://mastodon.social/tags/string. So, !msocial Cats searches https://mastodon.social/tags/Cats.

Duckduckgo has a bang for Mastodon: !msocial. Maybe we should start putting in requests for Fediverse bangs: !lemmy, !kbin, !beehaw, etc.

It would be better if they would add !fediverse that searches all of the sites. Maybe one day!