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    1. The sole or primary purpose of the service is to enable online social interaction between two or more end users;
    2. The service allows end users to link to, or interact with, some or all of the other end users;

    The first two rules basically just mean no one can interact. A version of YouTube could exist within these rules.

    1. The service allows end users to post material on the service.

    So that’s basically the Internet. You can’t visit Rotten Tomatoes for film reviews. Maybe you only show the critics score. But aren’t they also end users? How about a newspaper? Newspaper has an opinion section. How many opinion writers can you have?




  • Like, how the fuck is this even a close election?

    Accelerationism. That’s how I… understand? interpret? rationalize? it.

    If you think things are shit, which is an understandable view depending on the “things”, and you don’t see that changing, you just say “fuck it”. Now if someone calls your candidate “crazy” or “unhinged” you just go, “Of course, that’s what I want”.

    Add to that, no one who supports accelerationism thinks it will affect them. A crazy new world will fix their world and only hurt the “bad people”.

    And I say all this knowing that it doesn’t really make sense.



  • Sure, but my first month of Lemmy was via the web. I still use Mastodon on the web (no app). Whenever I find myself on Reddit (via search) it’s web only. If someone sends me a random YouTube link, I open it in the web. On the off chance someone sends me a random TikTok link, web only.

    Again I don’t use any of these apps, but if someone sends me a loops link and it says install the app, I’ll just ignore it.



  • So far, there is only some user settings accessible in the web interface. I don’t have an iPhone, hence I cannot say for their app. The android app will come later, apparently.

    I don’t give a shit about TikTok or short form video but legitimately how is this expected to succeed with these limitations? Clearly people like this stuff but can a fediverse service really afford to be iPhone only? This truly seems doomed to fail.




  • Comcast introduced the “Xfinity” branding in 2010. I still call refer to it as “Comcast”. Any conversation I have where an ISP comes up, the word “Comcast” is used. If someone says “Xfinity”, they often follow it up with “you know, Comcast”.

    Now that’s a VERY clear brand change.

    The name “X” is a VERY confusing brand change. It will likely be called Twitter forever. In fact at some point Musk will sell or give up on “X” and I guarantee within a year the new owner will change the name back to Twitter.







  • So a company provides infinite protection?

    “I didn’t murder that man, the company did.”

    “The company paid individual X to murder them, not me.”

    No, that’s ridiculous.

    There is a line you can cross. Musk has crossed that line. Is it exactly written, if your name is Elon Musk and you own companies X, Y, & Z, and you perform actions A, B, C, you I’ll be fined in this exact way? No. There is a grey area, and a group within the EU is allowed to make a more specific determination.

    And do you know who agreed to these rules? Elon Musk. He chose to do business in the EU. He agreed to their rules.