That is not a winning elevator pitch, that sounds like a dumpster fire of elements in an always online package.

I think it's the fact that not everything needs a 20 minute video. There's a lot of topics that I'm interested in but skip because I don't have 20, 30, 40, 60 minutes for it.

The people who made halo are scattered to the wind my dude. Most of them did jump to 343, and a lot of the ones who stayed were driven off during the destiny/Activision years.

I think people like that view Linux as some kind of fiefdom rather than a community of individuals.

My guy do you really not understand the shared desire of corporations to prevent solidarity and organization among workers?

People feel the same way about cars, electricity, food preservation. People's lives are interdependent on massively specialized technical disciplines and most of them couldn't care less. I understand that the amount of specialization that goes into some topics means you can't be an expert on all of these subjects, but some people just could not give a single shit how any of it works, and do not have any understanding of the ways in which it might stop working.

I've come to greatly resent any sort of technology or design being dismissed as "magic", because I've met too many people who mean it literally.

If the second one is true, even in a subjective sense, I'm honestly just impressed. I mean, if it works, it works.

Demand is what causes Supply. Somewhere out there is someone with the skill to crack Denuvo, but no need to, because this lunatic is already doing it. And being the competition means being on empress' radar, which is really something a sane person would not want.

It is not even semi-private. It is a completely public medium and absolutely nothing posted on it, including direct messages, can be seen as even remotely secure. Worse, anything you post on Mastodon is, once sent, for all intents and purposes completely irrevocable.

This guy is either actively trying to spread fear and doubt about decentralized services, or is somehow only now understanding what the internet is and how it works. Did I step into some kind of time vortex a while back and end up in a world where people ever believed that anything on the internet was private or revocable?

What no proper version control does to a mfer.

Meta's interests as a corporate entity are inherently incompatible with the goals behind the creation of a decentralized and federated service. I do not believe they are able or willing to act in good faith, and I don't think their presence should be tolerated. Personally, I did not jump ship from Reddit to be reconnected with the likes of Facebook or Instagram. The entire effort feels to me like a panic response to the notion that there are people like myself not being shown what Meta wants seen, and they can stay mad about it.

Addendum:

On the other hand, I think people should be the arbiters of the content they view. I don't get the notion of browsing /all and then being upset at what you find there, it's just a raw firehose of what people are up to on the internet. There is a value in letting people consume the content they want, where and how they want it. I'm sure someone would be happy to be linked in to this larger ecosystem. There's a lemmy instance dedicated to mirroring reddit content and I don't see the appeal of that, but more power to the people who get use from it.

The nature of the fediverse and activitypub is that we can't stop Meta from making use of this platform. We're going to have to handle this situation by proving that we have something different and perhaps better than anything Meta can offer. But I won't stay in a space where their size and influence is permitted to dominate all conversation, it's already slightly jarring to hear people talk as if lemmy.world were the de-facto center of the lemmyverse.

This is sh.itjust.works, which makes me a sh.ithead

E: I stole this from somewhere in the wild and wish I had taken note of who came up with it