~~Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that since LW will federate with them, any content they host, will end up on meta.~~
~~For example, this discussion we're having right now is on !technology@lemmy.world. So it doesn't matter whether our own instances have defederated meta - our posts and comments here will bring them value. Directly, in the form of content. And indirectly, in the form of processable data for machine learning, shadow profiles, etc.~~
Quite simple, aniki. The feeds were ordered by hot, new, or top.
New was ORDER BY date DESC. Top was ORDER BY upvotes DESC. And hot was a slightly more complicated order that used a mixture of upvotes and time.
You can easily verify this by opening 2 different browsers in incognito mode and go to the old reddit frontpage - I get the same results in either. Again - I can't account for the new reddit site because I never used it for more than a few minutes, but that's definitely how they old one worked and still seems to.
While this is true for Facebook and YouTube - last time I checked, reddit doesn't personalise feeds in that way. It was my impression that if two people subscribe to the same subreddits, they will see the exact same posts, based on time and upvotes.
Then again, I only ever used third party apps and old.reddit.com, so that might have changed since then.
Yups. Lemmy.world is the biggest instance that hasn't pre-emptively defederated from Threads. That's problematic, because it's also the biggest content provider for Lemmy. Ruud & Co are really dropping the ball here.
Personally I find it far more important that it's not run by a company that will try its hardest to track your every movement on the web, but to each their own, I suppose.
keep a copy of the software with the data files.
That only works to a certain extent. Sooner or later you'll need to run a vm to run that software, so then you'll also need to keep isos for that operating system. The stack required to open that document will only keep growing.
Meanwhile, I'll guarantee you that you'll be able to open that markdown file that Obsidian generates with any text editor from 2124.
but we still say we own an item becauee we are in control of it.
Yeah, that's where misconceptions like the one in this thread stem from. Repeat a lie enough, and you'll start believing it.
I'm sure there are exceptions if you'll look hard enough. However, even in the case of most open source software, you'll never become the owner of the intellectual property, you're just free to use, modify and share it.
Joke's on them, my instance doesn't allow downvotes, so my comment is happily at +9 from where I'm standing ;)
Ain't got no time to worry about popular opinions.
They aren't "amazing" in the sense that a human can't do them, but they are in the sense that a computer is doing it.
... without specifically being trained for it, to be precise.
~~You posted this to a LW community, so your content and data will end up in Meta's hands as well.~~