Lego playsets? They're everywhere.

It's Cybersecurity.

100%

Absolutely.

Adblocking is good cybersecurity practice. It puts into stark relief how much of Marketing is actually just manipulation and malware.

So, it's super weird to see the FOSS Crowd simping for a company that's taken what was once FLOSS (Free, as in Liberty), made it FOSS (already a problem), and is now hiding it behind pay-for-play in the repos.

Consider that three common core values of the Fediverse, and open software in general, are a propensity towards transparency, privacy, and decentralization. Literally everything Meta stands for is in opposition to that, including their lackadaisical approach towards moderation. If you look at our value profile, Meta is a threat actor in that regard.

We aren't trying to find out what something new is going to do. A cancer that metastasizes in every host it's ever had is likely to keep doing so, you don't take a wait and see approach. You excise the malignance.

In this case, you surround it with walls until it dies on it's own.

Heghlu'meh QaQ dajaj!

Qapla'!

The hell we can't.

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

I would love to see/have seen Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Patrick get a scene together.

I think some mods need to purge their subreddits before noping out.

Right?! This is winning some direct support right here!

try Kbin!

If you think the point of anything in the fediverse if for profit, you've missed the point. It's federated, if it gets too many users to support itself, it will collapse into several smaller chunks.

The whole premise is built on the same concepts as the early web, it's interconnected, it's self-managing, and it will scale only until it can't and then it will peacefully split.