This is not a proper talk by meta that you could just "hear them out". They explicitly said off the record and confidential, there's no reason for that if it's something innocuous. There 100% would be an NDA involved.
The fediverse is all about being open, starting with an NDA is definitely not "zero risk", you can not slip up ever, or you're going to be destroyed by lawyers, this is the exact opposite of "zero risk".
I don't think your assumption on how well I understand how the professional world works is correct.
I understand very well that signing any NDA is by no means "zero risk", it has a definite risk attached to it. Declining it is costly in some way, but also has definite advantages.
I also understand that very rarely is the phrasing ever "this conversation will be off the record", but rather some phrasing including the specific topics that may not be shared, like you say for example, product details. Blanket phrasings like this are always very sketchy.
"ich hab leider keine Zeit" meistens begleitet von "ich würde wirklich gerne"
Edit: ich merke dass ich am Titel vorbei geantwortet habe... Zu meiner Verteidigung, es ging mir am Anfang ohne Grund auf den Sack, hab dann erst später rausgefunden was der Grund ist :D
Es gibt zwei Seiten davon. Die erste Seite sind Menschen, die sich allerlei Zwänge von anderen haben auflegen lassen (Familie, Gesellschaft...), und diese ganzen Dinge weswegen sie "keine Zeit haben" wirklich nicht tun wollen und unglücklich sind. Das geht mir richtig auf den Sack weil es einfach so unglaublich schade ist.
Die zweite Seite sind Leute die nicht in so nem mentalen Gefängnis leben. Fuck this shit, jeder hat genau gleich viel Zeit. Was du wirklich sagst ist "andere Sachen sind mir momentan wichtiger". Es ist einfach so eine schmierige Art der Kommunikation, man sagt nicht was man wirklich meint sondern lenkt es auf was sinnfreies um, zur Konfliktreduktion/Gefühlsschonerei.
Ich finde in nem normalen Umgang sollte man so ehrlich sein wie möglich. Diese Floskel kreiert einfach absolut unehrliche Beziehungen.
"Ich würde wirklich gerne, aber ich hab leider keine Zeit" - es ist irrelevant, wie oft du sagst "wie gerne du würdest", wenn du deine Ressource "Zeit" nicht im gleichen Maße darauf verwenden willst wie jemand anders, dann heißt das eben, dass du nicht wirklich gerne möchtest.
Es ist halt absolut ok wenn man nicht möchte. Aber es ist meiner Meinung nach absolut nervig wenn man so tut als ob man möchte aber die Aktionen definitiv zeigen dass man gerade nicht möchte.
Ja aber dann hast du halt nicht "keine Zeit", sondern dir sind halt die anderen Sachen wichtiger. "Müssen" musst du all die Sachen, die du erwähnt hast, auch nicht. Du willst sie lieber als die Alternativen, deshalb machst du es.
Is there really a reason, for example, for there to be the distinction of "magazine" and "community"? When you're federating, the same features should be called the same, if close enough. That way everyone can talk with everyone about stuff and we all immediately understand each other....
I don't think it's even close to the same. It's more like forum software everywhere calls a post a "post" and a reply a "reply" and not something else.
Both sites are link aggregators, both sites have sub groups that are meant for a specific topic that links can be posted to, this concept should have a name.
It's not really about the confusion, it's just unnecessary complexity. Magazines and communities for example are completely equal concepts, the only difference is the name for some reason, probably marketing or some such.
Yeah honestly I've seen so many posts with multiple paragraphs explaining federation, while I've just been telling my friends two sentences like "it's just like reddit but instead of one website there's multiple independent ones (called instances) that all see each other's content. All content on all those instances can and should only be accessed through the website you signed up on, and when you do that it works basically completely like reddit"
This leaves out a bunch of information of course, but if they want more, they can always be confused and ask or look it up themselves.
Kev Quirk, one of the admins of Fosstodon (a Mastodon instance), destroys Meta in an email exchange. (fosstodon.org)
The exchange is about Meta's upcoming ActivityPub-enabled network Threads. Meta is calling for a meeting, his response is priceless!
[UserScript] Lemmy Universal Link switcher, or LULs for short (greasyfork.org)
Description...
As Reddit Crushes Protests, Its User Traffic Returns to Normal (www.pcmag.com)
Welche Redewendungen gehen Euch ohne eigentlichen Grund tierisch auf den Sack?
"Richtig und wichtig" zum Beispiel löst irgendwas in mir aus. Was geht euch so auf den Sack?
Kbin and Lemmy should come to a consensus on how to name stuff
Is there really a reason, for example, for there to be the distinction of "magazine" and "community"? When you're federating, the same features should be called the same, if close enough. That way everyone can talk with everyone about stuff and we all immediately understand each other....
Don't tell people "it's easy", and seven more things Kbin, Lemmy, and the fediverse can learn from Mastodon (UPDATED) (privacy.thenexus.today)
I had shared an earlier version of this last week, and a draft of the updates a few days ago. Thanks to everybody for the feedback!...
Why Kbin insead Lemmy? (kbin.social)
Just that
What should I do in this position? (lemmy.world)