✅️ is a shopping platform

✅️ has an app ecosystem with a billing api

✅️ high probability that someone who shops online has interacted with a store on the platform

✅️ multiple rounds of layoffs w/ staff stretched thin

✅️ unclear ambitions of being a megaplatform, beyond what it already is

I guess we’ll never know, lol

I’ve decided to make a post to ask them straight up

If you’d like to see this question answered, please consider upvoting my post for visibility: https://lemmy.world/post/1216080

I believe refederation is as simple as defederation. It’s a reversible setting.

I think a follow up question would be, would platforms who are defederated by your instance retaliate by defeterating their instance from yours? If so, would they be so willing to refederate as you are, when that time comes? Or will they hold a grudge.

If anyone’s wondering, I’m on the fence but leaning toward defederation. Meta is a scourge.

Edit: also looking to find a new home instance, I don’t like or appreciate the lemmy.world admin’s silence on the matter and feel like they attended that “off the record” p92/threads meeting with Meta and are playing ball. I have nothing to back it up, but what more would compel such silence? If you’re not sure, just say that. The lemmy community seems to appreciate transparency, and I know for certain that I do too.

Wonder if they were invited to metas p92 meeting for “off the record conversation” and obliged

To illustrate op’s point I’m going to spin up an instance, federate with everyone, and not tell anyone what that instance is.

Then I’m going to feed all that data into my new website, called Open Lemmy Stats, where anyone can query the user data ive accumulated. The homepage will be ripe with insights, leaderboards and all kinds of data on prolific users.

Additionally, I’ll display a snapshot/profile of a random user by feeding that users data to GPT4 to make inferences about the user’s political affiliations and display the results.

Worst of all, I’m not going to out my instance for everyone to know it as the one to defederate. In fact I’m spinning up a few instances that will host innocuous communities that I plan to mod and support to give my instances cover for their true purpose: redundant fediverse datastreams for my site, Open Lemmy Stats.

I’ll also have a store where anyone can buy my collected fediverse data for a handsome sum.

Just kidding I’m not doing any of this. But someone absolutely will or already is.

Hey that sounds amazing, may I ask what moisture sensors you are using?

Edit: also automating sensor power draw sounds like something fun to work on. I’d love to test if having them power on just before or shortly before taking a reading and power off is feasible. Or if they need more time to get an accurate reading, finding the most optimal power cycle schedule to prolong sensor life while being able to take measurements at sensible times.