It looks like Japan's current implementation of their J-Alert system can start warning citizen about 2 seconds after the info is automatically received by the system. It warns them via nationwide loudspeakers, TV, radio, email, and cell phones. So they've got their bases covered, so to speak. They may be able to turn off alerts on their phone (the article doesn't say), but probably not on anything else. Definitely not the loudspeakers.
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I've cut down on my Reddit use by a lot since the protests. I only occasionally browse the site, and I don't comment on any subreddits save one niche one that hasn't moved over to any other site.
Why would I need a Dutch angle monitor?
"I have the turquoise checkmark light on my car, and you don't."
We build this entire reddit alternative without interconnectivity with reddit, why couldn't we do that again if threads decides to do that.
We could, but we'd basically have to start over again. It wouldn't be quite from scratch, but it'd be pretty close.
Plus the format of lemmy is completely different from threads right?
It depends on how Facebook implements ActivityPub. For comparison, Mastodon and Lemmy both use ActivityPub. Mastodon users can actually search for and comment on Lemmy posts (each Lemmy post and comment appears as a new Mastodon post), but, due to Mastodon having a specific option in ActivityPub turned off (I don't remember which one), the reverse is not true.
No, "embrace, extend, extinguish" specifically involves some sort of interoperability between a larger organization (Facebook) and a smaller one (Lemmy).
The difference is the stage at which they "advocate" for it.
People here are advocating for it now before Facebook has a chance to "embrace" us.
Facebook would only "advocate" for it after they've "embraced" us and started to "extend" ActivityPub with proprietary features that potentially caused issues with Lemmy users.
With the former, Lemmy continues on its own, growing naturally. With the latter, Lemmy users lose contact with communities they've become a part of and may be forced to move to Threads to continue interacting with their communities. That harms Lemmy's active userbase. Additionally, because of how big Threads is, it'd naturally have the largest communities, so other Lemmy users would start using them instead of communities on other instances. That means those communities would shrink and may even die off entirely. When Facebook cuts off ActivityPub support, that'll leave us with several small or abandoned communities. So we'd end up with a smaller userbase and fewer active communities.
There's another reason to defederate. Most mods are volunteers. Lemmy currently really doesn't have the manpower to handle something with a userbase as large as Threads, and Facebook doesn't have a great track record with moderation, so it's unlikely they'd do anything about any issues in a timely manner.
Edit: kids -> mods, busy -> really; autocorrect was being stupid again.
What are the mechanics by which they are going extend or extinguish the fediverse and how would they do that from a technical standpoint?
"Extend" typically means adding proprietary features to your own product that are incompatible with your competitor's product. For example, what if they added Gold (as in the old Reddit kind, not the current Reddit kind)? That obviously wouldn't work with Lemmy, or at least not right away. The Lemmy devs would have to try to play catch-up whenever Threads launched a new feature. And not every would be able to be made compatible with Lemmy in some way.
Second, why when the entire fediverse with years of time behind it is a rounding error compared to a product they launched like 6 months ago. Why does Meta give a tiny shit about the fedi compared to TikTok, for example?
There are several potential reasons for this. They could see Lemmy as a potential future threat, and using the EEE method may squash the potential threat before it actually becomes one.
ActivityPub itself is also actually a neat feature to offer. It's basically Single Sign-On (aka SSO) without a few steps. (This is not me giving Facebook the benefit of the doubt. Companies can have multiple reasons for doing something, and I cannot believe this is the only reason Facebook would experiment with ActivityPub.)
As for your point about TikTok, TikTok itself is already too big to use the EEE method. (It usually only works on smaller competitors.) Facebook is using a different method for that: it cloned TikTok. Their version is called Reels.
As for the "rounding error" comment, Facebook actually had "accounts" created on Threads for all of its Instagram users, so, while there may be billions of accounts, not all of them are active. As a matter of fact, I've heard Threads use dropped pretty significantly after its initial launch. In that case, Facebook could be using a strategy I've seen both Sony and Microsoft use in regards to their game consoles: whenever Sony is in "second place" in the its console war with Microsoft and losing users to them, it tries to get people to migrate back over by adding features its userbase wants. Whenever Sony is on top, however, they tend to stop listening to customer feedback and sit on their laurels. I've seen Microsoft employ a similar strategy, too.
24% honestly isn't bad. I kind of expected it to be less than that given how big some of the instances that haven't defederated are.
... What?