Erikatharsis

In other news, water is wet, as anyone detained at Guantanamo Bay can readily attest

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Déjà vu, have I been in this place before?

But Venezuela, you need to understand that there is no good place to put the V in the acronym, wait for some other countries to join first

This is unrelated to the very poignant graphic but I like your username

The absolute absurdity of a news article on nefarious data collection requiring that I enable JS to read it, just so that it can load a ridiculous number of trackers.

I think I first heard of the fediverse from the Shonalika video on Mastodon, which I would’ve seen in 2020. I think I would’ve had some experience browsing Peertube without an account prior to signing up to Kbin, too. But Kbin is my first time having an actual fediverse account. It’s pretty cool!

That’s the more common variant, but “embrace, extend, exterminate” is also used.

Honestly, I don’t see why Threads couldn’t be intended to destroy both Twitter foremost, and also the fediverse before it’s big enough to pose any real threat: Mastodon has some two million monthly active users right now, which is tiny compared to Twitter/Threads, yes, but it’s also not nothing, especially for what Mastodon is and how quickly it managed to reach that level of usage.

So I don’t doubt that Threads has ill intentions for both the underdog and overdog. I just don’t think that the fediverse can be killed that easily.

Are people really saying “the fediverse is doomed”?

It’s a parody of Dr. Breen’s “Welcome to City 17” speech from the start of Half-Life 2. If you’ve never played Half-Life 2, then it’s a very, very, very strong recommend from me.

I was thinking earlier today about Invidious, an open-source alternative front-end to YouTube. And I was struck with a thought: would it ever be possible for something like that to simultaneously serve as an alternative front-end to a (※federated) YouTube competitor? Because I could only imagine that if such a thing were to happen, that audiences would have plenty of reasons to move to the alternative front-end (wrt. ads and data harvesting, access to exclusive content on both platforms from one location…), at the cost of being able to like and comment on YouTube videos; and then once a significant audience has moved to the alternative front-end, creators could transition to the competing platform without much fear of losing their audiences, and regain likes and comments.

I mean, I don’t know what I’m talking about so there’s probably a reason this hasn’t already happened. It just feels like it should be possible with enough time and resources.