Even if the Soviets had given up on the space race, they still had a vested interest in embarrassing America. They had every motivation to prove that America faked it, but they didn’t do it, because they had all the evidence that it was real. They could track the space craft and listen in on the same signals everyone else did.

All documentation against the moon landing has been thoroughly debunked many times. But you don’t care about that.

You don’t have to trust the Americans, there is plenty of independent third party evidence from multiple sources

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_evidence_for_Apollo_Moon_landings

I don’t understand what you are saying. They had a moon landing program.

Also, do you really think that if the Soviets had the opportunity to embarrass the Americans by proving the landing was fake, they wouldn’t take it? Of course they would. Instead they were able to track the Apollo mission all the way and knew it was real.

No they didn’t. They had their own moon program and announced their intentions to land in 1961 before the Americans announced in 1962

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_crewed_lunar_programs

I played it on Steam Deck. It was great. Act 3 was a bit slow, but I didn’t mind.

I am thinking of getting it on console so I can experience it with better resolution

I’m not saying it’s different. I’m saying that the current plan in no achieves the goal of keeping the fediverse open and out of the control of large corporations.

If you want to know how to prevent them from taking control, you better start working out the specifics of how they will do that. Otherwise your actions may end up helping them.

No one seems to have considered the possibility that Facebook are well aware of what people think of them. That they looked at the technology and thought “we don’t have to do anything, those idiots hate us so much they will do the job for us and give us the private marketplace we desire”

How? Everyone says some form of this, but never gives any details of how they will do that. Or how defederation will prevent that.

You are afraid that they will control the marketplace, and then turn around telling everyone to defederate, which just gives them a walled garden marketplace on a silver platter.

Ah, so just fear mongering and hoping that the fear based knee-jerk reaction isn’t actually playing directly into their hands.

What point was that? If you don’t join Threads, they don’t have your data. They do have everything you publish to the Fediverse though, no matter what you do.

They can already harvest the data. Nothing on the ActivityPub is private

Yeah, yeah, parrot the line and then please explain how?

Extending means making extra functionality that others haven’t implemented, so that your offering is more attractive. You use it to build a walled garden. Defederation just skips that step and does it for them. They don’t even have to extend.

Because every time this argument starts, someone mentions how they don’t want the fediverse to go down the xmpp path, and the argument has its origin in this article

https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

I would like to point out that xmpp still exists. Google Talk does not. WhatsApp killed xmpp, not Google

But it doesn’t keep him away. Defederation means they consume all of the data from ActivityPub, you consume none of theirs. You are creating a walled garden for them that makes it harder for Threads users to leave.

How is Threads going to breach your privacy by federating with your instance? How is de federating from Threads going to protect your privacy?

It’s not the last book. It’s how the seventh book, Persepolis Rising, starts.

Of course my comment is false equivalence, because the initial assertion is false equivalence.

You can’t compare NASA and Spacex because they have different goals. NASA even contract many of their payloads to Spacex, which they wouldn’t do if they were in the same business.

The heat released into the atmosphere has to go somewhere. The only place it can go is to be radiated into space

What do you base that on?

Spacex has had zero successful missions to Mars. NASA has landed 5 rovers.

There is also a boardgame

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Humans have asymmetric features. No one is symmetrical