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  • Chinese TikTok alternative RedNote tops app charts ahead of potential TikTok ban [Kalhan Rosenblatt | Jan. 13, 2025 | nbcnews.com]

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  • I'm not saying you were calling free market. I said you actually didn't say that. lol

  • GTA 5 Liberty City Mod Taken Down by Rockstar Games - IGN

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  • NO NONO NONO FK Rockstar!

  • Chinese TikTok alternative RedNote tops app charts ahead of potential TikTok ban [Kalhan Rosenblatt | Jan. 13, 2025 | nbcnews.com]

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  • yea Rednote is doing great I guess. But I wouldn't call it "Free market". Since it's not. I know you didn't say that. But just my opinion that is happening lately by the governments.

  • Mastodon announces new European non-profit, change of CEO

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  • I don't agree at all with the lack of ambition.

    Well the fact is yes, Mastodon is still relatively small compared to Facebook, X or Bluesky. Mastodon has actually 7,616,908 users total: https://fedidb.org/software/mastodon. Which is a huge number, but most likely a lot of bot accounts and non-active account to be honest.

    Now the reason why is Mastodon is not as large as Bluesky is debatable. I actually blame ActivityPub protocol and the complex nature of trying to become a federated platform.

    Let's be honest now, most people do not care (or don't have the technical knowledge) to understand federation or decentralization. Hence people will just jump to the easiest solution: A big centralized server, aka X, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Bluesky. Same for search engines like Google.

  • Mastodon announces new European non-profit, change of CEO

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  • Like what?

    I do like to have full markdown support that is for sure.

  • Github's fake stars, Nvidia's $700M open source bet, KDE looks healthy: Linux & Open Source News

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  • Extremely uninterested in sharing them with the general public. Don't want rancid comments about my family, friends, or myself. So I stick to YouTube for all my uploads.

    So, YouTube (and cloud) is just somebody else it's computer. A computer which a large company with millions of dollars behind it, that is the main difference.

  • Github's fake stars, Nvidia's $700M open source bet, KDE looks healthy: Linux & Open Source News

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  • YouTube is still very big and used a lot. LBRY/Odysee tried but failed. I hope PeerTube will succeed and I really wish more tech Channels will move to PeerTube as well.

    I also believe the web has to become too centralized around Google, YouTube, Reddit, Amazon and alike. The only way to open up the full potential of the internet is to use and promote these platforms. Individual forums as well as software like PeerTube. People will regret if we continue to centralized the web.

  • Github's fake stars, Nvidia's $700M open source bet, KDE looks healthy: Linux & Open Source News

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  • Nice to see PeerTube getting used more and more.

  • How active is Lemmy now?

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  • the best i could find is coming soon

    Sorry what you do mean? Mbin has full Mastodon support. You can look-up users and toots. You can follow people on Mastodon from a Mbin instance.

  • How active is Lemmy now?

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  • Mbin already integrates with Mastodon.

  • Copyright Industry Wants To Apply Automated Blocking To The Internet’s Core Routers

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  • Let's don't.. The internet is important to keep open for everybody, or we become just like China with their "Great Firewall"... Yea.. No thanks. When you go this route (pun intended), there is no going back, every industry would like to enforce bans on everything.

  • Asus bombards Windows 11 with christmas.exe malware-like Christmas wreath banner

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  • How do you know my name?

  • Asus bombards Windows 11 with christmas.exe malware-like Christmas wreath banner

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  • I believe you still have no idea how BitTorrent protocol works if you reply with such a comment.

    What torrent data? I'm not talking about any data! I'm talking about decentralized protocols. Not the data that goes over it.

  • Gaming on Linux has Never Been Better!

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  • What are the odds?

    And exactly the same type of the RedHat hats with a black line.. What a coincidence?

  • German watchdog orders Sam Altman’s biometric ID project World to delete data

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  • :)

  • Gaming on Linux has Never Been Better!

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  • While his statements are true. His red hat, seems like a RedHat fan. RedHat moved the Linux kernel behind a paypal. So don't use RedHat, that is for sure.

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  • Yes a lot of people went away from Mastodon to Bluesky, thinking indeed it was open source and decentralized. Jack Dorsey is selling BlueSky like that. Also various media outlets are saying: "Is Bluesky decentralized? Yes."

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  • Yesn't. Yes we have DNS, which is bad enough. But the internet itself was build to be resistant and distributed. DNS is distributed, but not decentralized. However, decentralized protocols (read BitTorrent protocols, etc.) do exist, and does make it more decentralized. Without the need of DNS.

    I'm never doing to trust a single org or group to control a large group of users/people or projects. Never.