He’s hoping the foreign companies are going to open up shop in USA to avoid the tariffs.

So is that trading economics website just BS, then?

That’s what I was thinking. Plenty of reason for outrage. This will just be a distraction.

https://tradingeconomics.com/russia/imports/united-states

Russia imports $17 billions from USA. So we don’t have a trade deficit with Russia.

He’s definitely a Russian troll, but I’m not sure this is the data point to prove it.

What’s the trade difference? Aren’t we not allowed to trade with them at all?

I keep hearing a lot of negative comments about Mozilla lately. I’m wondering if this move is more in line with then just turning into another google rather than disrupting the marketplace.

I think Trump doesn’t want to trade at all. He wants us to produce everything we need.

I’m not just the owner, I’m also a member!

Wait till he goes after citizens. You can’t vote democrat if you have a felony for… something.

Lesson for non citizens. You don’t have a first amendment right in this country under this administration.

Honestly, for citizens, I am sure he will find ways of punishing us for free speech as well.

I miss flash players.

This would be good. I just hope it can do so while still being a part of BlueSky (as it is today).

I did some digging, and it seems like BlueSky is open source. I’m not sure the process of creating an instance, or how easy it is for an instance to interact with the main instance. So maybe I take back much of what I’ve said.

Sure, but the federated aspect is not at the core of its functionality the way it is for Mastadon/Lemmy. If Elon Musk ever bought BlueSky, would he be able to shut down 3rd party instances? Or stop supporting them with security updates? Would the instances be forced to abide by whatever rules Elon says in order to stay active?

This is a hypothetical scenario, but if the answer is “yes” to any of those questions, then it is not worth the risk of moving to BlueSky. You’re just kicking the can down the road.

There is no way for Elon to come in and take over mastadon. He could buy the organization, but the software is open source he cannot ever stop that. Meaning he could never force his values onto the fediverse the way he did with Twitter.

Is this possible to do now? If BlueSky was bought out by somebody like Trump, could he disable this feature?

BlueSky is not open source, is it? The entire premise of things like mastodon and Lemmy is that they are open source and federated at their core. Nobody can change that.

BlueSky is not federated at its core or there would be other BlueSky instances.

I get the mentality, but that’s the problem with enshitification. It always starts good, but once all the twitter traffic moves over, and the world becomes dependent on BlueSky the way it still is for Twitter, what do they become next?

It would be better to push people away from the closed platform and towards the actual open platform.

Edit: maybe BlueSky is open source. In such case, if they start fucking around, maybe it would be simple to fork this source code and form your own community. I think until other instances gain tractions, it is hard to consider BlueSky comparable to mastadon.

https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app

Bug, not a feature.

What’s the best alternative? I have a fire cube, and I’m getting sick of it. Apple TV? Is there a FOSS solution that’s close to the same quality interface?

I was excited to see what it could do on my iPhones but so far I have not liked anything. The notification summaries are useless, for instance.

I do wonder if AI is being used in the background in ways I don’t see, but I doubt it.

So it sounds like they are codependent at this point. The bigger the nasa budget the better for space X.