Holy shit, it would be so funny if this started an 80% 3D printer market.

bloody murder about our lack of military readiness.

I mean this isn't hurting our military readiness nearly as much as everyone seems to think. They should focus on how he is using this to try to harm individual soldiers access to healthcare.

If I were Biden, I'd draft an executive order, go on national TV, and explain the reason why I have to use emergency authorization to use an EO to make sure our military has the leaders it needs to be ready.

I mean I hate Tubby as much as anyone and he is a piece of shit but that step is not necessary at all. Our military has the military leaders it needs and they're doing those jobs, they just don't have the requisite rank. It happens more often than you'd think.

Edit: If anyone disagrees with what I've said I'd love to discuss it with them.

It's insane that one Senator has that much power and Tuberville is a unqualified, moron but ultimately I don't see this being a huge issue for the military. They will simply have those people fill those slots without the requisite rank or have another GO cover down and do that job. A good chuck are probably positions created solely so they can have a place to put those GOs anyway.

There are Linux distros like Tails which will be very hard to use day to day, but if you are laser focused on privacy, it's between that and CubesOS (not Linux).

QubesOS. Also TailsOS isn't too bad if you do persistent memory and don't mind slow internet traffic over Tor. I find it plenty usable for simple browsing and downloadikg small files.

forcing messaging services to integrate backdoors, thereby undermining end-to-end encryption._

Wouldn't this only apply to messaging apps that do the encryption for you? I'm curious how this could be applied to something like PGP/GPG or SHA256.

And that's fine, the Fediverse gives you tools to not have to deal with that through silencing or defederation.

But for many people on the Fediverse, they're here specifically for other things, and being able to interact with the corporate social web from outside of it is ideal for them.

But that's seems to go directly against what the Fediverse was built for. They say that "The fediverse is a collection of community-owned, ad-free, decentralised, and privacy-centric social networks." Threads seems to be the antithesis of that. If people do want that, they can find a different platform or create their own. Not coop the Fediverse.

What? Meta won't control moderation on Mastodon.social just because they can communicate with each other. I want to be able to call politicians twats and "cunts" without fearing a banhammer. That's what it boils down to really.

Then they will either threaten to defederate with that instance unless they impose the same rules they have or tell that instances moderates to punish you. Once the instances become intertwined enough, their rules become ours rules or they'll threaten to defederate essentially kill that smaller instance.

There simply isn't a world where Meta allows Threads users to see content that they don't want them to see on their platform. I'm sure part of the reason they haven't federated yet is so they can figure out a way to hide shit from other instance on their own instance.

My expectation is that Threads will be too permissive with rules rather than too strict. They're pretty happy to have LibsOfTikTok on there so they can make money from the stochastic terrorism.

I can see that being an issue until they want to monetize it with advertisers. I imagine they're crack down harder, although still not hard enough, on the hate speech and misinformation at that point. At which point the rules they impose become the rules every other instance that federates with them has to impose or risk being ostracized. This is speculation of course but I cannot imagine a scenario where they 1) don't monetize the platform and 2) those advertisers are cool with their ads being right above a post, from a different instance that cannot be moderated by Threads admins, that show users how to pirate that same content.

I suppose it ends up being "their rules are our rules", but in a "there are no rules and you'll accept it" sort of way, rather than "adhere to our community standards or we'll take away 90% of your users".

Either one is not good for the Fediverse but now you definitely have me questioning which one it will be. I really appreciate you bringing that point up as I really hadn't considered it at all.

What about when the communities get so intertwined, then Meta starts trying to impose their rules on those outside communities? If lemmy.world chooses to federate with Threads and they do the same, it's only a matter of time before their rules become our rules or lemmy.world gets the boot. If they don't adopt them, it's safe to assume the lemmy.world userbase would leave for Threads after having been a part of it for some time.

I was looking forward to being able to use a mastodon to interact with people on Threads but apparently that's the worst thing ever for you guys? What?

Why not just go join Instagram or Facebook if you want that?