Instance blocking only hides communities from that instance, but not users.

They used to cover tech more generally, but they did switch to mostly only covering startups these days. But I’m not sure what here you don’t want to trust, it’s on the reader to evaluate the product.

Sure, Lemmy has algorithms, but it’s not the same as being algorithmic. We can continue to argue on the semantics of technical definition, but my point on the issue with toxic mess was clear a few messages above. Intent of the implementation really is the factor that defines the different between platform being algorithmic and using algorithms.

If a user has a chronological feed, and it reaches the top (or bottom) of the content, the user is likely to close the app/page and do something else, but an endless feed will keep the same user longer.

And using user input to sort content is not the same as prioritizing content based on past interactions to achieve a predefined goal.

E.g. Twitter API allowed to pull content in chronological order of only people you followed, but the official app used For You feed as default and even if you changed it manually to chronological in the settings it would reset on app restart. Contrast that with being able to set any sorting method as default on Lemmy or having no algorithm on Mastodon (yet the API allows anyone to create one if they wish) and the difference of intent is clear.

If that’s what you like, use it. Nobody is telling you can’t. Those that prefer non-algorithmic vs algorithmic social media will always be in disagreement, since they are fundamentally opposite of each other.

It’s algorithmic and run by venture capital. 2 things that made social media the toxic mess it is today.

Which point? Or did you see the title and wrote your own narrative?

Google and killed projects.

They get a few % from app sales and ads if they quality for the highest tier, but most OEMs don’t.

Again, US is the only western country with Apple being in the lead. In all other affluent western countries, Apple is 2nd or 3rd by market share. Just recently, they even fell to 2nd place in Western Europe, which everyone said was impossible just a few years back.

You are using data from US only. Globally, Apple share fell to 16% in 2023 Q3, they are big, but far from the biggest player in global market.

12% is the max for Android OEMs, and they have to give a lot of concessions to Google to qualify.

As revealed in documents from Epic v. Google, Android’s “Premier Device Program” offers 12 percent search revenue to devices with “Google exclusivity and defaults for all key functions” and no rival app stores.

In raw numbers in might make sense for Google, but I can assure you, no Android OEM will see it like that in the next negotiations.

That’s where infosec people are these days.

Coming https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3869

That would be on brand for Musk, but I think he will stick with this one as it was his dream for a long time. After all he did buy back x.com domain from PayPal after he merged with PayPal back in the day.

The page loads, but there seems to be an issue with backend. So the status page doesn’t report anything.

https://lemmy-world.statuspage.io

They can scrape it now. Everything is publically available. But this data is not that valuable for them compareted to someone installing Threads, Instagram or Facebook app that has pretty much full access to your phone all it’s activities and information.

The bigger issue is that when they join ActivityPub, they will take advantage of existing content we generated and add their ads on that content for Threads users.

https://the-federation.info/platform/73
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats (also allows to look daily)

https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse has some stats, but take them with a grain of salt. It’s slowly growing overall, but certain subjects are more active than others.

Estonia has been testing it since 2015, but their projected timeline for adoption never realized.