But was he prepared to be under their overwatch?
It might as well be his doom (pun intended). Can't Activision file a lawsuit against him for uploading that on Github?
Do they want to make the switch? If they don't, they won't.
You can't force or convince the mainstream to get to the Fediverse when pretty much all of their connections are on the mainstream network.
That's why I think Lemmy/Piefed are the ones that have the biggest chance of sticking, because they're aimed to a public that's not necessarily mainstream.
I know they exist and I totally respect it, but I'm not even sure if it makes much of a sense an Instagram/TikTok alternative on the Fediverse, considering these social media are aimed around getting visibility either by personal relationship or by popularity (volume over quality). And I don't think that the Fediverse public as of now is looking to become that.
Another one bites the dust.
No thanks. I don't need a closed source browser from an USA company, promising about privacy. I don't trust them.
The pro-consumer pitch is typical of these startup.
I don't even see the point of paying for their search engine, which honestly feels to me just a viral market stunt on social media to make people believe it's that much different from the dozens free alternatives we already have.
Unbelievable how these fuckers can keep doing that, without ever being held responsible. USA is so fucked up!
Disney/Sony/Nintendo should already be suing their ass off. They either don't do it for fear of reprisal, or they're really okay with it while they don't think twice about fucking an individual life forever in order to 'protect their IP'.
There's nothing right about anything about this bullshit. Both the administration and these private companies are dirtier than trash.
Who would have thought that Stremio, after adding paid subscription, would not just not improve but actually get worse. That's shocking.
It basically comes down to how ActivityPub works. When someone follows you, what happens next depends entirely on how the recipient's software is programmed to handle that request. Mastodon has a way to handle it, and Lemmy/Piefed has a different way.
Mastodon is a microblogging software focused on 'personal' accounts and posts, and if a user enable the option to require a follow request, the backend will wait for the request to be accepted before approving it.
On the other hand, Lemmy/Piefed were designed as a public forum software, with a focus on public communities and discussions. Since all posts and comments are treated as public data, there's no reason for a follow request/approval system. So when someone follows a Lemmy/Piefed user, the backend approves it automatically.
If a Mastodon user follows a Lemmy/Piefed user, Mastodon sends a follow request to Lemmy/Piefed backend, which automatically accepts the request (because Lemmy/Piefed always accept follow requests automatically).
If a Lemmy/Piefed user follows a Mastodon user, it depends entirely on what the user settings are. If they have the approval request option disabled, then the backend will also accept the request automatically, but if they enabled the approval request option then they need to actually accept that request.
That being said, there's nothing shady about that. It's just how each software (Lemmy/Piefed/Mastodon or whatever) operates based on their own purpose. They share the same ActivityPub protocol which makes them able to communicate with each other, but they don't share the same philosophy design.