I guess I’m kind of asking / supposing, but I wouldn’t be surprised at all if lemmy / activitypub doesn’t really work that way.

As in, posts to feddit.uk are stored on feddit.uk. If you read a thread from sh.itjust.works/c/[email protected] then sh.itjust.works server will pull it down from feddit.uk and show you the post. It may even cache a copy of the post to show it to another user, but that’s not the same as backing up the post.

What data do you want backed up though ?

That’s not how the fediverse works.

Surely you’re aware of the embrace, extend, extinguish corporate strategy.

People only get to decide what they want from their platform until facebook starts extending the spec. Then your client will become incompatible with some posts, and so on and so forth.

In summary, it’s a threat to the platform itself.

If there was a bot that just flooded All with far right talking points, do you think admins ought to block that or leave it to the users?

What if it was far right mixed in with cat memes?

What if it started more slowly like a few posts an hour and then ramped up over 6 months to be 1000s of posts per hour?

Exactly, I hereby decide that I would like to ignore corporate efforts to undermine this burgeoning new platform. I furthermore reserve the right to complain about the loss of said platform in future years by claiming that it’s everyone elses fault for allowing corporate encroachment.

Australia here. SMS is the lowest common denominator. I use it to talk to clients all the time.

I’ve heard of the blue bubble thing but only from yanks I think.

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This is the way. I finally got around to setting this up a few months back.

I guess you’re technically correct but I think the assertion is based on a misconception, as though xitter could be gutted and sold for it’s constituent parts.

Like imagine someone bought a house for $1m, and then lived there for a year and their dog shat on the living room carpet every day. You wouldn’t say “oh well it still has some value because you could sell the copper wiring for something.”

Yes you could sell the copper wiring, but it’s worth far more where it is - you just need to change the carpet and then the property would return to something approaching it’s former glory.

There may be other revenue streams but not enough to cover costs.

That doesn’t preclude what I said though.

No. Whoever wrote this doesn’t understand bankruptcy.

If things got really bad creditors would take control and sell the business to shareholders who would install a clean CEO who would entice advertisers back.

No one would utter the b-word.

It’s market value is nil if there are no advertisers.

they workshopped it and found that the word had the right balance of motivation & positive vibes while conveying little meaning.

They always just get tossed aside at the first slip up.

… with a bonus of a few billion.

The article says that the app description said something about “killing children”.

It’s not really surprising google removed it. I mean they could’ve just edited the description or whatever but… policy I guess.

Sounds like it will be back any minute.

I love this so hard ❤️

Getting sick of saying that it’s not the link, it’s the preview.

An AI generated article would still need source material.

Anyway, what would be the appeal of a platform that couldn’t link anything but just showed AI content?

The way I see it, journalism is more or less dead. A shade of the former institution. There doesn’t seem many other ways to fund journalistic endeavour.