No, they gave up their nukes for the promise of Ukrainian independence and it was seen as good deal because Moscow still held sole control over all launch sequences.
You have no idea what a Nazi is and your usage only waters down its meaning.
Is it really a racket though? Most artists are not tech geeks and desire cultivated feeds instead of .. none.
I like to emphasize " if both wish to".
If that's included in your view, then what's the point of using a unified protocol? At that point we're more backwards than just using a SSO for everything.
You're probably right on me completely misidentifying the fediverse for what it is, as i expected something like resources shared forums for everyone, but got greeted by admin drama as soon as leaving lemmy for a second. In that sense the fediverse really got a PR issue and users here acting high and mighty to someone not getting their perfect system truly isn't helping it.
Gonna wait for bluesky to play out. ATproto seems a lot more than what i initially expected from activitypub.
As far as I understand it, content posted to one server gets stored on every federated server for the other server's users to see.
This is wrong, else every self hosted instance would've been a storage nightmare.
There have been instances that were defederated for posting nazi / racist content, and CSAM
I assume the later is something CP? Yes, those are legimite cases, just like spam/DdoS, but even then in every case i've seen yet, a Limit would've been enough. A pretty good example seems to be qoto.
Please enlighten me then. I'm completely oblivious besides everyone here turning into condescending tones without giving proper answers.
A user should be able to interact with every other user if both wish to.
That's the problem, as that isn't possible right now, unless your twitter circle took just the right instances for themselves. Sure there is self hosting, but down that road of argument eventually everyone will be self hosting.
Have you tried contacting your government for this issue? From my experience public services are often open about Mastodon once they realize it's the same thing as Twitter, but accessible to everyone.
A great product is "too expensive", but also sold out to its capacities.
Sounds like free market is experiencing free market.
Which rolls back to the original comment. If their first party app is indeed that profitable where's the marketing and promotion towards potential buyers?
It's probably best to take this whole graph with a grain of salt. There's already some questionable relationships in it, like for every 4th Manjaro user coming in a Gentoo user, which I find hard to believe to say the list.
Second, it's hard to say Pop exclamation mark underscore OS is on the decline when the whole field just looks more diversified in general. Sure the hype around gaming distros from the lockdowns seems to have cooled down a bit, but there isn't any distro that just disappeared. On the contrary, it seems to have gotten just more.
As already mentioned, we can expect another hype again when Cosmic DE launches.
What cause are they furthering though?