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  • I don’t see why we can’t just stay on the fediverse, enjoy threads as long as meta wants to play ball, and then wave goodbye when they decide they don’t want to federate anymore. Nobody’s forcing anyone to move from the fediverse to meta, and I think the current demographic here is unlikely to volunteer for another walled garden experience.

    Worst case scenario is we end up right back where we are now- a niche community prioritizing independence and decentralization.


  • ChiefestOfCalamities@partizle.comtoMemes@lemmy.mlThink about it
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    1 year ago

    In cases like this, creating artificial scarcity is very important. Without scarcity, no producer would finance new movies because there’s no way to make back their initial investment. So just like with patents, we create artificial scarcity by giving the people who made the movie exclusive rights to decide who can watch it.

    Even though scarcity isn’t enforced upon us like with most goods, it’s in literally everyone’s best interest to create (and enforce) that scarcity.



  • The problem was that they were grandfathering existing users without notification every time they increased their PBKDF2 iterations. I think the current recommendation is 100,100 iterations, and LastPass was implementing that for new users. But it wasn’t updating that for existing users, resulting in some having as few as 5000 iterations, making that user’s encrypted data much easier to crack. You could change the iterations in the settings, but that required knowing that you needed to do this, and LastPass should have either changed it automatically or notified users that they needed to change it.

    I was paying LastPass to be the security expert so I didn’t have to learn all the ins and outs of data encryption, and they failed at that task.





  • The people you’re (justifiably) worried about aren’t leaving Reddit because of the blackouts. The Reddit experience and content haven’t disappeared- all you have to do is switch to subs that didn’t go dark and post/consume content there instead. Eventually the protesting subs will be reopened under more subservient mods and everything will go back to “normal”.

    People (like me) who are exploring entirely new communities right now are the ideologically motivated ones who don’t like what Reddit leadership is doing and want to find a new place without that kind of toxicity. Based on my very limited experience so far, that seems like the kind of person who would fit in here.