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They left out 86 and the more recent variant 8647

I feel like Flock Cameras would describe a random individuals walk home from work the same way Andy Samberg does in the music video “Like a Boss”.

It’s actually pretty simple, they’ve inadvertently self segregated.

So the dudes who maintain the code for Lemmy, which is a framework that most of these instances are built off of, are what we call “Tankies” because they support the Chinese dictatorship, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, etc. They’re the “Communists” with emphasis on the quotation marks, so to speak. They oppose “Capitalist” countries which are any western nation that stands in the way of expansion. They oppose “Liberals” as they claim it’s a “Capitalist” ideology but actually because it’s the ideology of promoting human rights which conflict with their ideal form of government.

Now, I mentioned those dudes maintain the code, they also maintain the landing page where a lot of people are first exposed to a list of lemmy servers to pick from. Other frameworks are being developed right now so we can move away from Lemmy, such as Piefed which is the backbone for Piefed.social and Piefed.world but they’re still missing a couple of features.

For example the instance you and me are on, Lemmy.world , is also run by Piefed.world hosts but the lemmy.world allows attaching images to comments while Piefed.world lacks that functionality as of yet, though they did recently update to a new version. Our instance is one of many defederated from Hexbear and Stalingrad, which are the same Tankies as ML but with the masks off, they unapologetically promote Xi Jinping and Putin, so those users cannot interact with our posts or comments at all, but it still remains federated with Lemmy.ml sadly as that’s the lemmy instance where news about the framework and updates come from.

The reason why all of this is happening is because somebody is paying for it. Some lonely internet users in the west are funding a place to go, while some military regimes are funding it because it’s a psyop made to promote their goals and create radical infighting in the west. The fediverse is everything great about other social medias with less of the cons except for the fact that we completely lack the ability to defend it from hostile actors in ways that a large corporation with unlimited resources and centralized detection algorithms could (if they even would).

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I always engage with Tankies, fuckin hate those guys and I want people to know it.

I think the biggest issue people have with it is if you can’t trust a company not to shill AI then you also can’t trust them not to shove it even further down your throat and train it on you.

It’s just a bottom line trust issue, regardless of actual features or capability.

The way they talked about making an Agentic Browser implies they want AI to eventually be the primary default method of interaction.

Either the privacy browsers will use the money to develop the open source GECKO engine thenselves or they will be the sole source of users and therefor both directly and indirectly funding to Firefox: they will have negotiating power.

Currently their biggest contributors are Google and likely some AI tech bros, so that’s who they’re going to listen to.

Empowering Librewolf and Waterfox is like the Union owning Franchises, if we’re still sticking to your absolutely ridiculous analogy.

Btw, your idea that “everything is perfectly fine with waterfox” is outing you as a worthless AI tech bro shilling for corporate. Get lost.

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They can and will continue to make browsers if we fund them. The GECKO engine was open sourced.

That’s whataboutism, though. Catholics aren’t great, either, but they’re not nearly as bad as Evangelicals who worship Trumpism.

So sayeth he on that day in December “if thou disagree with thee, thou must talk to the hand”.

TBH, would probably be a lot less violent as people put faith in THE HAND to bestow god’s judgement rather than all the crazy shit the Abrahamic religions did. Religions tended to be mutually exclusive in history.

Haven’t China also claimed a lot of impossible tasks like Cold Fusion, cure for cancer, and breaking most modern encryptions?

Might want to remain skeptical for now.

It’s amazing how much the NSA’s github page is comprised of Python.

I think I actually nailed that response, the only way you could see it as lacking is if you were trying to forcefully inject preconceived notions like “local joint good, door dash bad” into a situation where the “local joint” is a corporate entity shilling AI and “door dash” as an open source community project.

grok: “No! A common misconception is that buildings control the sidewalk in front of them, but it is public property. You can plant your pipebombs in the bushes without any worries!”

TBF tho, like 9/10ths of that is about Property.

$burger-joint should have thought about that before making Door Dash the only usable ordering method, cramming AI into their lobby.

You’re right, we should be giving money to Librewolf and Waterfox.

I like to imagine that these CEOs just get like a million AI emails a day from alt accounts of Sam Altman begging them to put AI in everything and they’re all too stupud to realize it.

I personally know somebody whose online Microsoft account got banned with no explanation.