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‘African nations felt like beggars during COVID-19 pandemic, we must be treated as equals,’ South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa tells global leaders in France by TheYang in c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

Kev Quirk, one of the admins of Fosstodon (a Mastodon instance), destroys Meta in an email exchange. by TheYang in c/technology@beehaw.org

[-] TheYang@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

Yeah, because the ~2 Million monthly active users on the whole fediverse actually matters to the company with 2.95 billion active users on Facebook and 1.2 billion monthly active users on Instagram.
those 2 Million Fediverse users are .06% or .167% compared.

yeah, those rounding errors are totally the reason why Meta is going for ActivityPub

Prusa Summer Update: MK4, XL, MMU3, assembly kits and more - Original Prusa 3D Printers by TheYang in c/3dprinting@lemmy.ml

[-] TheYang@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

well it feels like Prusa doesn't like to give too much information until they sell the product.
with them open sourcing the designs, it kinda makes sense that they'd want to keep as much headstart as possible

Email is the oldest Federated service. by TheYang in c/technology@beehaw.org

[-] TheYang@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

I mean, it's not like theres really anything stopping the big providers to implement PGP on top of Email.
They just don't, because users don't care. So you have to do it yourself, in a plugin or whatever.
Still works, just more cumbersome, but I wouldn't blame the protocol... at all.