Hm not sure what to make of this. The author of the article states pretty clearly what company they are affiliated with. The comments seem to push a product called Splunk which doesn’t appear in the article at all.

Lemmy is the only community I know where claims of “toxic extreme leftist” cannot easily be dismissed.

I haven’t recognized any posts as covert ads here I think. Can you give an example?

XMPP works well and the community is actively developing server and clients. There aren’t any big corporations funding it anymore that’s all. Still the best instant messaging protocol in 2023.

Didn’t even mention Mastodon once.

Free locked down scooters that can’t move.

Outside of for-profit corporations and outside of academia? So neither the private sector nor the public sector? Who should do medical research then?

That would be awesome, wouldn’t it be?

Do you think we live in the best possible of worlds where nothing can be improved anymore?

Boring tech is awesome.

Yes, they should be legally required to open up access to their service. No more walled gardens that hold a large number of users hostage.

If the instance defederates, users do not have an option to interact with the defederated instance anymore. The only choice you have then is to join an instance where the moderation policy agrees with your values or host your own instance. If you just want to see if defederation was the right idea, you could just visit those instances directly and look at their local timeline.

I never said anything like that.

Yes? At least people on the stock market are putting up their money instead of just talking.

According to the stock market, yes. If you know otherwise, go make some money of them.

You could seed the Torrents by the internet archive.

Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power.

I don’t care what their executives earn, but if those companies paid their taxes and stopped interfering with unionization efforts that would be nice.

Users on Mastodon can simply block their domain if they want to.

Please leave Lemmy, your kind is not welcome here.

That’s why I keep running my XMPP service.