https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/24/bluesky-raises-15m-series-a-plans-to-launch-subscriptions
They've invested millions and they wouldn't unless they expected a significant return. The only way to get a return on a social media investment is either ads or subscriptions via enshittifying it just enough to get people to pay. bluesky is destined to be trash.
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Looks like I might be moving to Proton Pass after all! I'll give them some time to see what they do about this, but will happily give my money to someone else and migrate friends/family as well.
So you want so start seeing platforms practice mass censorship? That’s what’s going to happen as they aren’t going to take on risk.
Platforms are already not taking a risk and practice mass censorship. This is why you have words like "unalive" and "grape" becoming part of the American lexicon. It's not even nefarious. Advertisers don't want their content near negative content so platforms (without being asked by their government) auto-enforce these kind of policies.
What’s worse is that spells the end of the fediverse and smaller hosted media.
Serious doubt. All the fediverse has to do is comply with the law when asked, it really is that simple. Telegram was specifically not complying with the law, which is why illegal content is so easy to find on there, and thus why they were being targeted.
Admins can’t moderate everything and there will always be content that is illegal somewhere.
Frankly, if you can't keep your house in order, you're not taking your responsibility seriously enough. Nobody's forcing lemmy, mastodon, peertube, pixelfed, etc admins to give free accounts to more people than they can manage.
This is a actually pretty worrying
Why?
Telegram is not an encrypted platform, so they're not going after him for providing end-to-end encrypted services. They're going after him because they have full insight into what's going on in their platform and not taking appropriate action and in some cases completely ignoring it. It's pretty common that if you're providing a public platform that you comply with authorities. Signal doesn't have this problem, they have no insight into anything their user base is doing; you can't be asked to enforce things you can't see.
Grab 'em by the tussy
Because they get your profile picture, name, and email address when you click accept. I went through with it just to test, but definitely getting some data from its users.
anyone else getting "page unavailable"?
I used Ubuntu for a while and distro-hopped before deciding to land on Debian. I figured major distros used it as their base for a reason. The older I get the more I appreciate the "it'll release when its ready" approach that Debian takes. There's no economic pressure to release with major bugs hoping the next sprint will fix most issues, like a lot of "enterprise" software. The Debian release cycle is not 100% predictable, but it is reliable. I've had a server go through a few major upgrades for nearly a decade before the hardware itself gave out. The OS was rock solid the entire time. Additionally, with flatpak, outdated desktop apps are no longer an issue and I use docker for hosting services.
I will admit that Debian is pretty "bland" from a fresh install, but I don't mind that at all.
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He's doing exactly what Putin asked.