It would be if there wasn’t a very simple way to completely disable pocket

Honestly, this is really good to hear! More mainstream accounts will definitely get the fediverse a bit more credibility.

And here’s a bit more from BBC:

The team at BBC Research & Development are researching social technologies and exploring possibilities for the BBC. One part of our work is to establish a BBC presence in the Fediverse.

This is an experiment - we will run it for 6 months, and then look at how much value it has provided, how much work it requires to maintain and then decide whether and how to continue. We’re learning as we go, and we’ll write about what we discover in the hope that it might be useful for others. The BBC will continue its normal social media activity in the usual places.

We’re starting off small with just a handful of accounts from R&D and our colleagues at BBC Radio, but we hope to be adding more accounts from other areas of the BBC soon:

• @BBCRD@social.bbc
  
  

• @BBC5Live@social.bbc
  
  

• @BBCRadio4@social.bbc
  
  

• @BBC_News_Labs@social.bbc
  
  

• @BBCTaster@social.bbc
  
  

• @Connected_Studio@social.bbc
  
  

-https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub

I don’t like when people say “AI just traces/photobashes art.” Because that simply isn’t what happens.

But I do very much wish there was some sort of opt-out process, but ultimately any attempt at that just wouldn’t work

“Our logo is our most recognizable asset. That’s why we’re so protective of it.” -Twitter’s (Currently Outdated) Brand Toolkit Page

I also believe they were used on the Fortnite subreddit. Because of course we need to be giving crypto to 10 year olds

Ah, that’s fair. Do you think you’ve changed your mind on it, or do you believe that it’s sort of a con of these platforms?

You cannot block someone from using activitypub, that just simply is not how it works.

Pixelfed is a federated photo sharing platform similar to instagram, signing in with Mastodon lets you carry over who you’re following on Mastodon.
So I wouldn’t say it’s too important, but I thought it belonged here.

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I still don’t think it will be very prevalent though. I’ve been using Kbin for quite a while now, and I have not once really used the Microblogging feature, just because it’s tucked away in a separate tab, and it’s not really what I use Kbin for

Maybe I’m crazy, but I kinda doubt that this is likely to be killed off. It’s not it’s own platform like Reddit, it just takes content that’s more likely to be made by people from websites like Reddit, blogs, and other social media platforms and puts it all in one place.
But who knows with Google.

“No no no, the different instances and stuff aren’t competing. You see they all grow together”

Counterargument: Spiders are creepy

Yeah, it is very possible for us to not let Meta win. Acting like the Fediverse is doomed isn’t productive at all.

Glad to be here for the first true piece of Lemmy history o7

Agreed, it really isn’t even too confusing to explain either, Kbin uses magazines, Lemmy uses communities, but they are basically the same thing. Kbin and Lemmy are separate platforms, and shouldn’t be forced to use the same terminology just because they’re compatible with each other.

I believe this only works on Kbin though, not Lemmy

Tbh “Join the Technology Shares Collection on Kbin” doesn’t roll off the tongue very well, community is just the most straightforward option

The feed present on Kbin and Lemmy that delivers content that is “hot” is still an algorithm, it just isn’t a hyper-specific one like you’d see on Tik Tok

Why are people so upset about Beehaw being quite exclusionary?

When I first learned about the Fediverse part of the appeal was that some instances would be open, some would be more exclusive, and that was part of the appeal. Don’t like how open/exclusionary one is? Then leave and go to a different one.

Defederation is a feature of the Fediverse, and using it isn’t some big crime.