His cooperation seems to have led to serious convictions:

Tarrio - 22 years

Nordean - 18 years

Biggs - 17 years

Rehl - 15 years

His cooperation contributed to those 4 convictions for seditious conspiracy.

In this case, the prosecution recommended 35-43 months. He got 40.

Edit: by 4 convictions, I mean Enrique Tarrio, Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, and Zachary Rehl.

My “cancerous ideology” is to not make decisions or spread panic based on misplaced fear or misinformation.

It doesn’t really matter. The only data they could ever access is publicly available. Federating with them doesn’t give them private or personally identifying data. The only way they could get private data (or serve you ads) is by convincing you to use Threads. Your privacy isn’t dependent on the good intentions of remote server admins.

Federate with whoever you want but if you’re defederating to keep them from getting data that you’re making public and literally anyone can access with RSS, it’s… not a great reason. It’s an effective way to make sure you don’t have to interact with their users but it won’t turn public data private.

That’s publicly available data. Anyone can access publicly available data on the open web.

So the solution is to… abandon the open web for a new silo? Sounds like a pyrrhic victory.

What data?

Goddamn I love these stories.

Here’s a link to the archived article.

Also, given the vast differences in daily active users, wouldn’t Mastodon become flooded, and eventually dependent, on Threads content?

Servers only pull subscribed user content, so it’s not like the option is nothing or The Firehose. Meta can’t push content into the Fediverse.

I think it’s important to note that Meta doesn’t have more power than anyone else here. They’re just a large instance. They have the same forces keeping them honest as anyone else and their size doesn’t change the incentives for mods and admins. Mods don’t have an interest in working for Meta for free. If they’re spending too much of their time moderating that content, Threads will be limited or defederated.

Given Meta’s size and history it’s understandable to be concerned. At the end of the day though, they’ll either play nice or get bounced. I think we’ll be fine either way.

I don’t mind their subscription model. All the subscription features – cloud storage, folders, desktop app, extra themes – really feel like bonus features that aren’t essential.

I get being concerned but it’s way too early to panic. Historically, polling isn’t predictive until June of the election year. A year out from the 2012 election, Obama’s numbers were worse than Biden’s and he still won in a landslide. In modern presidential elections, incumbents have won about 75% of the time. Abandoning the benefit of incumbency is almost always the worst thing you could do.

It’s an invasion. Severe aggression from Mildly Infuriating.

Probably not. The gag order is extremely narrow. It excludes Engoron himself and I don’t think his wife is court staff.

According to the article, Trump also posted that yesterday.

I don’t think that was ever considered seriously as a solution though. The legislation is specifically about links. If they genuinely thought that Google was stealing their content, they’d go after them for copyright infringement. I’m not going to lose any sleep over Google paying Canadian news organizations, but this whole thing is a bit of a grift. And the news organizations know it’s a grift. It would be trivial for them to prevent Google from indexing them. They want those links and they need them. They make money from them – that’s why they have people on staff to do SEO. If those links are presented well, people are more likely to click them. I don’t think that needs much explanation. Even on here, if someone puts in the effort to have a good headline/title, image, and summary, I’m way more likely to click on the post and click through to the article. On the other hand, the news orgs would be fools not to accept $74 million in no-strings-attached money. What’s true for news organizations is also true for everyone else too though. Who among us wouldn’t be foolish to walk away from tens of millions of free dollars? The next in line now gets to say, “Why them and not us?”

Even baby steps toward a pay-to-play internet are steps in the wrong direction. This might not “break the internet” on it’s own but licensing links like copyrighted works is moving us along that path.

Free linking is essential for the open web. You can link to anything at no cost. That’s especially important here too; no free linking, no Lemmy. Link taxes are hostile to that, and that’s exactly what this is. It might be good for journalism - though it’s probably just the big players that are going to seriously benefit - but it’s a bad precedent.

Yikes. Broke Mind Virus.

It’s odd to say that Engoron is afraid to rule against Trump when he already ruled he’s guilty of fraud. I’d also love to see him fined a billion dollars or to spend time in jail for contempt of court but Trump and his team are baiting him to take more extreme action to argue bias on appeal. Keeping his orders beyond reasonable is probably the right move to protect his verdict moving forward. Same goes for Chutkin. She’s probably more reluctant to help Trump open a door to appeal than afraid to have him spend a night in jail or whatever.

The reason why legal commentators are saying this isn’t a victory for Trump is because, at this level, the finding of fact is what matters most. Appellate courts almost never rule against lower court’s judgment of fact. If she had ruled that the 14th amendment applied and Trump had to be removed from the ballot, we’d be in about the same position. The appellate court would’ve stayed her ruling pending the appeal. The only real difference is that people would be happier about it. But they’d be happy without a good reason because appellate courts always disregard lower court rulings on matters of law. Her ruling on the applicability of the 14th amendment just doesn’t matter much.

FF is great for mobile with the exception of PWAs. They abandoned support for web apps - they work but performance is terrible. It’s a massively requested feature so hopefully they’ll add support soon. I use a chromium browser (Vanadium) for web apps but have links open in FF.

Short answer: yes.

Longer answer: he’s in slightly-higher-than-warm water over his interactions with the ADL and Nazis/antisemitism on the site. He’s in hot water over his personal promotion and espousal of antisemitism and ads being displayed next to Nazi content.