They’re not mutually exclusive. The Hope Diamond is valued at around $300 million, but it doesn’t make any profit.
Well for one, it’s easily one of the largest social media platforms on the planet right now, so it getting cut off from a major percentage of its user base overnight is a pretty big deal in terms of discussions on government censorship.
But if you want a more Fediverse-pertinent reason to care, those several million users are going to be going somewhere for their content fix. Some of them are going to be trying out Loops and Pixelfed, which are Fediverse platforms that replace some features of TikTok. While it’ll likely only be a small percentage of those users who try migrating over, that’s still going to have an affect on adjacent ActivityPub platforms as a bunch of new instances and users start engaging with it.
have pooped through a hole in the bottom of a moving train in China
Sorry, but that sounds like an upgrade to me. Pooping has gotten so boring lately, but that sounds exciting! I’d pay good money to experience taking a miles-long dump.
If it pays the bills for those people, what difference does it make? Other than “me no likey”, that is?
It’s creepy whenever people write songs praising active, still-living leaders.
Could implement torrents, which I believe is how Peertube handles it.
Do you mean that all existing PieFed instances have decided to ban Fox News, or is that something that’s built-into PieFed’s code?
May he have beautiful blue skies and golden sunshine, all along the way.
How is that any more hidden? Unless you already know the subdomain in the first place, the domain doesn’t really make much difference.
RedNote is seeing the largest influx of new users right now. There’s a few other TikTok-like apps that are also seeing some bumps, but RedNote is soaring.
What’s to doubt? Open your app store and look at the current top app.
“Nobody I want to follow is using it.”
By and large, the average user is a content consumer, not a creator. The consumers want to go where the creators are, but the creators won’t go where there aren’t already consumers. This will always be the biggest problem for any Fediverse platform.
A crummy commercial?!
It’s pretty newsworthy, when a noted flag-molester grossly violates US Flag Code.
Turns out, there is a state worse than “dead”.
While this is a good move, I don’t think John Mastodon was making anywhere near the kind of money to turn into the next Musk or Zuck to begin with.
A handful of underpaid city staffers gently disassembling your home don’t send the same message that 200 tons of steel and diesel barreling through it does.