JWZ: "I prefer to meet people where they are" says reasonable-sounding white dude holding court at a table in the back of a Nazi Bar, redux. (www.jwz.org)
from davel@lemmy.ml to fediverse@lemmy.ml on 22 Jan 2025 21:16
https://lemmy.ml/post/25086845

It’s Cory. This time the guy holding court is Cory.

BTW, the Kickstarter for Pixelfed and Loops, the actually-open, ActivityPub based clones of Instagram and TikTok, just hit $35,000 in its first 13 hours. The creator of Mastodon just ceded control to a new non-profit. That’s how you do it. By spending money to build free things for the public interest out in the open, not by tithing your money, labor and attention directly to VC-funded for-profit corporations.

For those who don’t know jwz, among other things, you have him to thank for Firefox/Mozilla’s existence. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski

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eldavi@lemmy.ml on 22 Jan 2025 22:13 next collapse

Oh no, but those poor Blue Sky users, when the service becomes even more terrible they might lose all their posts. We must save them from their own bad decisions!"

i wonder why it’s so hard for people to understand this about social media with significant financial backing; it literally happens every 👏 single 👏 time 👏 .

and here i am bieng the pot that’s calling the kettle black since i did tiktok up until monday. lol

drspod@lemmy.ml on 23 Jan 2025 03:04 collapse

At least you learned the lesson.

eldavi@lemmy.ml on 23 Jan 2025 15:09 collapse

it’s a lesson i’ve learned many times since the days of bbs & icq; but it keeps catching me off guard.

PanArab@lemmy.ml on 22 Jan 2025 22:17 next collapse

That logo 😬

davel@lemmy.ml on 22 Jan 2025 22:26 collapse

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/6a6164db-3dfb-4ad8-8e04-2bbace29db37.png"> <img alt="" src="https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/0cdba8af-a472-4d15-986c-6963e674a32d.png">
<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/a7cdac8c-c5b5-4389-8b72-7903a82b75d0.png"> <img alt="" src="https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/36ebf7fb-f1cd-4716-9f57-6630c943e2d1.png">
<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/dc561553-596e-4b48-b5e2-a8088f94a789.png"> <img alt="" src="https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/4a90f5a6-83db-4a62-9990-a9b1888151d5.png">
krolden@lemmy.ml on 23 Jan 2025 05:55 next collapse

I fuckin love this guy

onlooker@lemmy.ml on 23 Jan 2025 12:23 collapse

What’s the third logo? I recognize the rest, but not the rotated blue G or whatever it is.

scott@loves.tech on 23 Jan 2025 12:51 collapse

The third logo is Gravatar, which allows you to set an avatar associated with your email. It is mostly used by blog platforms such as WordPress to associate an avatar with your comments. Many other platforms, such as Hubzilla and many forums, support Gravatar.

phoenixz@lemmy.ca on 23 Jan 2025 13:32 next collapse

I thought for a second that the third logo was a goatse meme

smeg@feddit.uk on 23 Jan 2025 14:50 collapse

Aren’t they all?

onlooker@lemmy.ml on 23 Jan 2025 13:59 collapse

Thanks!

wisdomchicken@piefed.social on 23 Jan 2025 10:36 next collapse

Loops is not open source lmao, its just Dansup promising that he'll opensource it in an eventual future.

Saying "this platform is not actually open because the people running it are bad, come to these actually open platforms", and then proceed to list a closed-source platform is incredibly funny

Boomkop3@reddthat.com on 23 Jan 2025 15:15 collapse

It keeps being advertised as such, and wanted registration for installing. I left it there and unsubscribed. But now they keep mailing me offers :/

ObsidianZed@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2025 15:39 collapse

But why the image…?

remer@lemmy.world on 24 Jan 2025 03:35 next collapse
tejan@hubzilla.monster on 24 Jan 2025 04:53 next collapse

But, why male models?

tejan@hubzilla.monster on 24 Jan 2025 04:54 collapse

I am wondering what the images are for myself.