Just mentioning that a G-15 classified project is classified as such, is a serious crime. I will report to the authorities before they… Someone is already at my door!

I can’t even find the existence of the name, which would be quite unusual.

What is the X-109?

Many had and have multiple accounts due to federation shenanigans. The actual userbase might have actually grown despite significantly lower numbers compared to the peak.

Sounds good. I didn’t have issues sourcing 4k UHD pirated material.

No, PowerDVD doesn’t support it. It requires discontinued Intel SGX hardware features which are not present in current products. https://www.cyberlink.com/support-center/faq/content?id=19144

You cannot play 4k HDR on a Windows PC as well. Just pirate it. https://www.cyberlink.com/support-center/faq/content?id=19144 It requires Intel SGX which is not a feature anymore.

This doesn’t apply to every country and some of the laws have to be stretched. I interpret this industry boycott of an entire platform as an abandonware situation. You don’t give me the opportunity to make a deal in the first place.

I have a Blu-Ray drive myself, which can read 4K discs format wise. But the DRM industry forbids me from playback. There is no software playing it back in 4K HDR format, unless I crack the disc.

Bullshit. Piracy is the only thing preserving it. Why? Because as a PC user 4k HDR Blu-Rays are forbidden for me anyways to play legally despite owning them.

It is. So where is the police report? She said she was groped on several occasions (which is sexual assault) and quit the job by her own decision, so why not throw the men who groped her under the bus?

I am tired of reading these things. I am absolutely aware these are done in good faith to have some neutral instance to deal with this, but it not the reality. If you are low on money, you are right out or a bit later, if you are an “undesirable” person, you will lose, and if you lack time, energy and mental health going through the paperwork will break the last bit you had and money too.

My lemmy.world instance used to be painfully slow, but it works perhaps faster than established big social sites now, probably due to the lack of trackers.

I just use the mobile web interface. Good enough for now.

No, because open source apps need to have enough eyes on them to spot malicious code. And highly complex ones need proper audits and even that might not be enough to catch every fancy vulnerability.

Law enforcement will knock on the doors of Fediverse servers and there will need to be some monetary fund for legal fees.

Don’t worry. The fediverse has its circlejerk on one opinion. It is not so different to reddit.

The fediverse is overreacting in a hysterical manner with the Meta federation. Unlike the https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html article suggests, XMPP is a bad comparison, because the protocol itself was destined to fail, to quote tapoxi:

I was a weird XMPP nerd in high school and tried to switch friends from AIM. So here’s my experience.

• Onboarding was difficult. There was no obvious choice of server or client to use.

• Adding friends was difficult. You needed to send a subscription request to a contact, and they needed to send one to you. If anything happened during this process, you couldn’t chat.

• Popular XMPP clients, like Pidgin, also supported the other chat services (AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, etc) so people just continued using those.

• Network effect. You need to convince a mass of people its better, otherwise nobody’s using it because no-one uses it.

• No obvious benefit to the user. It’s decentralized sure, but there weren’t many improvements over AIM that people actually used.

• A lack of good iPhone XMPP clients`

It also struggled with proper handling of multi-device setups with synchronization. There is a reason why XMPP is gone and we have WebRTC, Matrix and others instead, even on the open source side of things.

And the Microsoft Office analogy does not hold up, its data format pretends it is open, it is no open software anyways.

Mastodon made it clear they will not accept venture capital, the corporations cannot highjack the development of Mastodon. If anything we will see forks like the Star Office, Open Office and Libre Office situation in the far future.

I also would like to keep communication channels open to most other instances and networks and will leave those anti corporation blockers. You are not going to tell me with whom I may interact. Keep the invasiveness to a minimum to not flood the network with hateful crap. People looking for designated safe spaces with limited scale communities have otherwise brilliant opportunity to do so.

It is totally wild how people think an instance could be possibly toxic and apply that to Meta, and Meta alone. The entire fediverse must be distrustful, because anyone can hookup. With the recent growth I see more and more drama of immature instance admins throwing tantrums who their users are allowed to interact with, because of some astrological misalignment as with the mastodon.art drama. As an instance admin, you have the role of an ISP, you are not a community mod. Know your place.

lemmy.world itself is the “Meta” of the Threadiverse thanks to its gigantic size alone, speaking of EEE. There is already a “rogue” fediverse in the form of the right wing gab.ai etc.

We will end up with about a dozen huge instances and the rest will have barely any relevance as with E-Mail providers. But it will be still diverse and big enough that EEE is not going to happen.

The instance owner needs to apply for it in the first place. Unlikely the average Joe would pick a tiny instance. Since it is federated, growing is not greatly applicable.

Of course you can sign-up where you want to. This should only act as a front landing page for Mastodon.

What tools are exactly missing which are commonly used on reddit?