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Dr. Quadragon ❌

about.fb.com/news/2024/06/what

"What are the benefits of open social networking?" - Facebook erroneously known as Meta asks.

Well, one benefit is not having to deal with you fuckers, have you thought of that particular one?

25 June at 21:26 | Open on mastodon.ml
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Alexey Skobkin

@drq
I don't really get all that saltiness. It's not a bad article and it's a free advertisment for the Fediverse.

- They're not trying to hide that fedi is not their new shiny innovative invention
- They're pointing that you can interact with their users accounts without having account on their services
- They're telling that it gives more choices to the user
- They're giving quite good examples what Fediverse and interoperability mean. Almost exact the same examples I was using when I needed to explain to people who are not tech savvy.

Considering that with or without this article they will still work on their services, I like the option where they write this article more.

@drq
I don't really get all that saltiness. It's not a bad article and it's a free advertisment for the Fediverse.

- They're not trying to hide that fedi is not their new shiny innovative invention
- They're pointing that you can interact with their users accounts without having account on their services
- They're telling that it gives more choices to the user
- They're giving quite good examples what Fediverse and interoperability mean. Almost exact the same examples I was using when I needed to...

25 June at 22:24 | Open on lor.sh
D:\side\

@skobkin in fairness, I don't think @drq said anything about the *article* :blobcatthinksmart:

25 June at 23:02 | Open on mastodon.ml
Dr. Quadragon ❌

@dside Nah, I just find irony in the fact they are writing about it. The article's almost completely fine, if not for them carefully omitting the fact of the Fediverse being developed specifically as the solution to the problem their company created and stands to profit from in the first place.

@skobkin

25 June at 23:08 | Open on mastodon.ml
D:\side\

@drq @skobkin one thing I find a little odd about it is that you both capitalize (as in, start with a capital letter; languages, amirite) "Fediverse", whereas they use "fediverse", as an improper/common noun. :blobcatthinkingglare:

25 June at 23:18 | Open on mastodon.ml
Dr. Quadragon ❌

@dside Isn't it the same as with 'the Internet'?

@skobkin

25 June at 23:19 | Open on mastodon.ml
D:\side\

@drq quite possibly! I just find the split between different usages amusing.

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Oh god, there is a whole article on this.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitali

> This article is about using a capital letter for the word "Internet". For capitalization (in finance) regarding the Internet, see Commercialization of the Internet.
Oh :blobfoxcrylaugh:

@skobkin

25 June at 23:30 | Open on mastodon.ml
Alexey Skobkin

@dside @drq It's just a habit like when we wrote "the Internet" for some time until we stopped doing that.

26 June at 0:02 | Open on lor.sh
Dr. Quadragon ❌

@skobkin I'm still doing that, it's a proper noun.

@dside

26 June at 0:03 | Open on mastodon.ml
Owl!🦉

@skobkin @drq

Apparently, some free software people have a conditioned reflex to throw shit at google, facebook, amazon and other corpos due to their terrible behavior in the past, even if they're doing something useful right now 🤷‍♀️

26 June at 7:33 | Open on lor.sh
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