It's kind of a given that people are going to try to get patents for stupid things they obviously shouldn't. It's the whole job of the patent office to decline such requests. If people only ever applied for good and reasonable patents, then approval could be automatic. It's not, only because they need to filter out the bad ones.
The real problem here is that the patent was granted. It seems dumb to apply for it. But how dumb is it, if applications like this actually get approved?
In the US we have two viable political parties.
One is ultra right wing fascist authoritarian.
The second is conservative neoliberal corpo-cratic.
No wonder I've been more or less depressed my entire adult life.
Why do we advocate for, and pour hours of development into, ActivityPub rather than building clients which add a social layer to existing content distribution and communication protocols?
If clients built their own social layer, those would be limited to users of that client. If they opened up the social layer with an interoperable protocol, now you just made ActivityPub again.
Right now, it looks like the only way users on my instance will get to see content from other instances is if I manually search for just about everything they'll get to see.
They can do that themselves.
Agreed.
Until people started following hashtags. Then they were trying to be about more than just people, and doing it poorly. Kind of like wanting to subscribe to people on Lemmy. That's not what it's for, and just shouldn't be an option, so people know that.
They really aren't.
They're a user created workaround, attempting to fix the structure-less, findability problem. Twitter embraced and officially incorporated them, because they had no better solution that wasn't completely rebuilding the entire system. They rightly new everybody would hate that.
Yes exactly! It's just like Twitter or Blusky. It's 99.3% people just shouting into the void, without form or structure. You're not confused.
also if it uses a common input name (which it would because it’s the same Lemmy software) then your webbrowser would suggest/autocomplete it
That's exactly the local software I'm talking about! Now we're on the same page. Rather than being a form, the local software could just detect and do it all seamlessly.
Wrong community.
Try !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world