Rentlar

The whole point of Strava is getting in data from you, other riders and other companies' gear and putting it together.

These new terms say that same data that they got from other sources they now can only keep it to themselves, and show you only what they specifically permit to show you.

Tick tock, the hundreds of billions of dollars tossed into the AI hole is looking for its return, any second now...

Maybe this is a sarcastic suggestion that won't see any progress beyond showmanship. There is no low too low for the Republican party, but i wonder if there is integer underflow for situations like this.

Let all Ethics Reports be released? Then how about:

Forgive student debts to own the libs?

Shutdown fossil fuel extraction because they power space lasers?

Get rid of the lotteries and stupid stuff, end illegal immigration by making all immigration de facto legal?

I use misskey too, but I wouldn't call user recommendations the same as BlueSky Starter Packs or this. It's more of a starting point for specific topics rather than just generally popular users or algorithmically determined recommendations. Instead it's a set of lists of curated users for people to get their feed started, who will then follow more people that those users boost.

Unrelated: Maybe it's just my Japanese misskey instance and followings, but most people there just say they woke up, had a nice meal, came back from work, or just the random thought on their mind, and a lot of supporting reactions under each.

Heck yeah! This is what I love about the Fediverse, we all don't have to wait for one team to figure it out.

Since Multi-Communities seem a ways away, Lemmy could do something similar with Community Subscription packs, where people with different niche interests could follow a number of communities related to a topic. Right now it's not always easy to find which instance has the most active ones.

This process is indeed much clunkier than bluesky and not really accessible to a new user, but it's a good start and perhaps some servers or 3rd party apps could streamline this eventually? Even just going account-by-account in the list a dozen times and following each one manually would fill an empty feed pretty well.

Even if Mastodon and other Fediverse platform gains are 1% of the gains of BlueSky or anything else, it's still cause for celebration and to welcome new friendly faces with open arms.

When the Reddit API-calypse happened, I don’t think anyone expected Lemmy to have more users than Reddit or anywhere even close to a similar number. But Lemmy.ca went from around 40 active users in April 2023 to hundreds, and then to 2k over 3 months, most people being friendly and ready for something different.

Quantity isn't everything. There is an innumerable amount of things that could be better about Mastodon, Lemmy and other Fediverse software and sure, mass-adoption could help with niche content. However the way the Fediverse is set up, it is resistant to all the sacrifices other platforms had to make in the long run to be more profitable. Musk-boi could "buy" Mastodon, Spez could "buy" Lemmy.world and ml, and Zucker-bot could "buy" Pixelfed tomorrow, but that wouldn't stop anyone from forking those platforms and leaving the main instances. The distributed nature makes it hard for a monopolist to capture.

Interesting choice... Musk has a bone to pick with Microsoft so even if the FTC gets hobbled, this investigation may get to survive the changing of the administration.

Next year: pay to cut an opponent's frame rate in half, as a bidding system. Whoever is offering the least premium coin gets the debuff.

I mean old, un-Musked Twitter was what people wanted. Mastodon is similar, and I like it but it's not Twitter (which personally I couldn't get into even in its heyday).

That is what we have now, but clearly people are averse to making a choice that they are not technically inclined to know how big or small the consequences of that are. My solution is a spitball one with obvious flaws, but essentially it is that the instance is picked randomly out of a group of very closely, if not identically aligned servers.

You'd have different domain names to get people used to the concept. John Doe would sign up, and become john.doe@apple.server.hostname, Jane Doe would sign up and become jane.doe@banana.server.hostname