Welcome to Incremental Social! Learn more about this project here!
Check out lemmyverse to find more communities to join from here!

@breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca cover
@breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca avatar

breakfastmtn

@breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca

He/Him

Sneaking all around the fediverse.

Also at breakfastmtm@fedia.social breakfastmtn@pixelfed.social

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

Decentralized Systems Will Be Necessary To Stop Google From Putting The Web Into Managed Decline (www.techdirt.com)

Is Google signaling the end of the open web? That’s some of the concern raised by its new embrace of AI. While most of the fears about AI may be overblown, this one could be legit. But it doesn’t mean that we need to accept it....

breakfastmtn ,
@breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca avatar

Incredible news for us! Thanks, Reddit! 🎉

As TikTok ban threatens stability in social media ecosystem, some brands settle into the fediverse (digiday.com)

The possibility of a TikTok ban is inching closer to becoming a reality at this point. On Tuesday, the Senate passed the bill that would bar the social media platform from operating in the U.S. unless ByteDance, its Chinese parent company, sells its stake....

Twitter alternative Post News is shutting down (www.theverge.com)

Post News, a Twitter alternative that emerged in the wake of Elon Musk’s takeover, is shutting down. Noam Bardin, the platform’s founder and former CEO of Waze, writes that Post News “is not growing fast enough to become a real business or a significant platform.”...

breakfastmtn OP ,
@breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca avatar

I've never used post and I haven't heard anyone talk about them in a long time but they were pushed as a big deal after Musk bought Twitter. Kara Swisher and a lot of rich tech bros were trying to convince everyone they were the Next Big Thing around the time of the big wave of migrations to Mastodon.

breakfastmtn OP ,
@breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca avatar

You don't need to convince me. I'm Fediverse all day every day :)

breakfastmtn OP ,
@breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca avatar

And it wasn't announced until pretty late that she was. She was teasing it on her podcast like 'stay tuned, I know serious people with money who are ready to launch something big'

Stop wearing Vision Pro goggles while driving your Tesla: U.S. transportation officials, Calif. police (www.nytimes.com)

Stop wearing Vision Pro goggles while driving your Tesla: U.S. transportation officials, Calif. police::Videos, many of them stunts or jokes, of people wearing Apple’s new virtual reality headset while driving Teslas in Autopilot mode prompted officials to issue warnings.

Ex-CIA software engineer sentenced to 40 years for giving secrets to WikiLeaks (www.theguardian.com)

A former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) software engineer who was convicted for carrying out the largest theft of classified information in the agency’s history and of charges related to child abuse imagery was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Thursday....

Biden Presses Netanyahu on Working Toward a Palestinian State (www.nytimes.com)

President Biden pressed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Friday to agree to the creation of a Palestinian state after the war in Gaza is over and raised options that would limit Palestinian sovereignty to make the prospect more palatable to Israel....

breakfastmtn ,
@breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca avatar

But while that’s a very lucky thing to have, the issue is that we depend on the owner of Mastodon to not sell the company to a billionaire.

We don't depend on that. Buying Mastodon would get them the branding but not Mastodon itself. It's all GPL/AGPL and would be forked immediately if sold. The buyer would have no control over it.

Oracle may have owned OpenOffice but it didn't matter. Everyone uses LibreOffice now. Same shit.

breakfastmtn ,
@breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca avatar

'omg Meta's blocking nazi instances!'

  1. Gleason is a transphobic idiot.
  2. poast and spinster are blocked by everyone for hate speech.
breakfastmtn ,
@breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca avatar

It's real in that this was actually produced by an Israeli construction company. It's fake in that this isn't actually happening or approved by the state.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • incremental_games
  • meta
  • All magazines