I know I'll feel stupid for it but...

Is removed really removed ?

It says it will bring the trains, not that they'll actually go to 200 mph

Italy finally got Corsica back?

Slow down

It's the same Union that wants to ban cryptography in instant messaging apps. Sometimes they get it right, sometimes...well

What do you mean? He's just a very polite fluffball

I'm sorry but I find this deeply comic and I can't stop giggle

At the same time, clickbait has always existed. There's a reason trash emerged from tv to become his own subgenre

Excuse them, probably English isn't their first language

When they say "debate" they mean "circle jerking"

Also it's deeply ironic because a big point of Life of Brian it's right in that screenshot

While on a side I agree with you, on the other I see everytime people complaining about subscription fatigue and they never, ever would pay a recurring amount for a game.

So I don't really have a solution for this lol

your comment has been reported to the competent authority of the Interplanetary European Empire, an IEE official will contact you soon for reprisal

if an admin of an instance marks a post as potentially illegal, it gets replicated to other instances automatically and gets in queu for deletion.

This opens at some terrible abuse, just open a malevolent instant and start flagging all the content you don't like as illegal

At the same time I hate to see the promised federated network revert to what commercial platforms have become, karma and account age requirement, phone and identity verification , forced 2fa and what not.

While I share this very same feeling, I also recognize there are reasons why commercial platforms have done what they've done, I don't think they're inherently evil, they just had to face the very same problems we have

This is a very dangerous argument because it infringes the democratic base itself.

It's not necessary wrong, but be careful because with the very same logic you could argue the people don't really know what they want, they aren't able to govern themselves, we, enlightened creatures, should decide the way forward.

Again, it's not necessary false, but it leads to authoritarian and paternalistic consequences

You pay for internet connection, not internet content.

Services don't get a penny out of what you pay your ISP

The only objection I have with that is redundancy is useless because if the main server who "host" the community goes down then all the other copies will die too as content can't be added anymore.

There's no mechanic for orphan communities

whining about only apply to them, not small startups

No, to the point blue sky, not exactly big tech, is struggling to comply, after being called out.

They said they will, it's not even bad faith.

Contrary to common beliefs, regulations strongly favour big companies, because they have the resources to keep up with burocracy, while gatekeeping smaller companies

The problem isn't VC money either, because American and global funds invest in European companies too, there aren't just as many eligible ones.

Most successful start up in Europe still decide to get listen on american exchanges (see the recent klarna case) This is purely because of favorable environment lol

Fuck them, if they have to stay, follow our laws

I mean, I really don't care, but that's exactly how european economy remained, keep doing the same thing expecting a different outcome doesn't seem smart

And no, Volkswagen is the 10th company in the world by revenues, it's not dumping, European manufacturers simply can't keep the pace. The most sold EV in Europe right now is Tesla lol

You're absolutely right, but this is a different case I think: It's freerider problem, people WANT to use internet services, want to use social and so on, the problem is, if possible, they don't want to pay for it. In the scenario where we make ads completely illegal, companies will look for other ways to monetize the service, because a system which is not in break even on the long term is cursed to bankruptcy.

People want to watch Netflix, but without paying, that means that if everyone do like that, Netflix will find other ways of monetization. That's why games became full of microtransanction and always online stuff, for example. That's what made ads popular in the first place, don't want to pay? No problem, here's a free sites with ads. should socials be closed community where you can access only paying, like pay tv? Because even right now removing ads on Reddit or YouTube paying is possible.

Even Lemmy growth at a certain point will incur in this, because a platform can't hold itself on 2 unpaid developers and free labor of volunteers who pay for server costs too.

Would we better off without these sites if we're not willing to pay for them? Maybe yes. But what certain is that without financial stability a project can't go far. The problem is both of the producer of the producer, sure, but also its users should wonder how much they want the platform, because it will evolve accordingly.

Yes And the only reason we had sync for Lemmy so rapidly is that he worked full time on sync for reddit too but he found himself without a stable income from night to day when the API stuff happened.

Ok but then you create a production problem.

You download it, but that piece of media still had a cost of production. If you don't pay for it then the producers must find other monetization methods.

It's one of the reasons the modern web is based off ads, or why free-to-play with microtransanction is so common.

No, it's like saying that seeking a network with less moderation where everyone can set up their own instance, will lead to less moderated content

This is practically impossible because piracy is easy and convenient.

Ads emerged right because they are a simpler way of monetization