Wiz

joined 1 year ago
[–] Wiz@midwest.social 1 points 27 minutes ago (1 children)

I was thinking about the exact same thing! Open source, OSM mapping with a Pokemon-like travel and collection game. But I'm super busy in grad school at the moment, so I can't do it. Just put the idea out into the universe for now.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

There are PeerTube servers that allow a certain reasonable amount of content for free.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

PeerTube is also a Fediverse service, and does the longer form videos, like YouTube. It mostly works fine; it just lacks content.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

So, you're being negative about an alpha release of someone's hard work without checking it out first?

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago

Sad to hear this news.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

We'll, uBlock 😎

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago

Proton indeed looks like honeypot to me.

What makes you think that?

Genuinely asking, since I literally signed up for their paid email service earlier in the week.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Proton has labels & folders both.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They are in competition with Mastodon, and have a marketing budget.

Five years from now, those platforms will become enshittified as their budgets dry up. They will need to milk the users for revenue. Well see another surge in a few years, until they learn that Mastodon is actually better.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago

And then #2 will be copied by other people and AIs, becoming seen as fact.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 0 points 1 month ago

And then #2 will be copied by other people and AIs, becoming seen as fact.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago

Russian cunts

Kinda repeating yourself here.

 

As a project, Mastodon has operated under the umbrella of Mastodon GmbH, a German company that benefited from non-profit status with the German government. Despite all indications that they were doing everything right, Mastodon GmbH recently had its non-profit status revoked, resulting in the team to seek an alternative.

In the announcement, CEO and founder Eugen Rochko had this to say:

Our day to day operations are largely unaffected by this event, since Patreon does not presuppose non-profit status, and Patreon income does not count as donations. We have in fact not had to issue a single donation receipt since 2021.

Mastodon remains one of the only popular social platforms that operates out of the European Union, and Eugen desires to keep things that way. With that being said, this could be an interesting opportunity for the project: a presence in the United States may reduce friction in hiring employees there.

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