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Fossil fuels.

Things have slowly drifted from “we might wanna consider doing something before this becomes a problem” to “we need an immediate and concrete plan” to “anything short of immediate and drastic action is killing and will continue to kill people” over the course of the last decade or two.

So either FB isn’t actually E2E, or their implementation is Twitter-grade broken.

The thing is, Lemmy is decentralized. You don’t need to have an account on an instance (server) to use that instance’s “subreddits” (communities) - instances communicate their activity to each other automatically, so any instance will do (provided the instances haven’t banned each other). It’s just like email.

So it’s pretty simple to just stop accepting sign-ups once an instance starts to become impractically large. Anyone can start an instance for just the cost of a domain ($10ish/year, or free if it’s a subdomain of an existing website) and a server (that random computer you already have lying around will do just fine, for free). And a small instance can do fine on just donations and the good will of the operator.

Fine.

To be fair, I used Mastodon long before Elon acquired twitter, so I’m pretty comfortable with federated social media. The fragmentation inherent to federation might make small communities difficult to form, but it also protects against the eternal specter of power-tripping mods, so I can’t complain.

I just hope it doesn’t have the same memory utilization as the Mastodon web client. Seriously. I flat-out can’t leave a single Mastodon tab open in the background, because it’ll eat all my RAM. No other social media I’ve used does this.

Looks like the people are finally waking up to the existence of non-x86 instruction sets in general-purpose, and I am all for it!

I mean, I agree with this point, that our current copyright system is glaringly broken in favor of corporations, but I worry about how your “hamburgers and smoking” metaphor might have unintended implications. Depending on someone’s level of poverty, time constraints, and location, not eating McDonalds might actually be synonymous with starving.

Similarly, smoking is a substance addiction, and victims’ minds are neurologically not in a place to logically consider quitting.

This isn’t a “fragile world view”, this is a matter of one’s understanding of someone else’s life being orthogonal to reality.

For instance, I personally don’t think copyright/patents/IP protection (beyond an attribution requirement similar to the BSD licenses) should exist at all, but under capitalism it’s the only way artists don’t starve, so I wouldn’t advise abolishing it without fixing our societal support structures first.

Absolutely. Customers (at least the way the marketing is phrased) “buy” a game, and then the dev can revoke their access when it’s no longer financially convenient. There is no way this is fair.