He never gave a shit.

The main (ATM) Lemmy instance for alt right fascist types. Pretty much a gigantic dumpster fire of toxicity that prides itself in raiding other instances to propagate their rectal cancer of a worldview. Defederated them on my instance day one, and happy to see the big names doing as much.

I live in France. The government here is using every single tool they have to prosecute radical leftists and environmentalists while ignoring the fact that more than 60 % of the police force has fascist adjacent ideals. I do not want these people spying on me, period. This is not some libertarian horseshit, trust me.

User engagement is important, yes, but since we do not have ad targets here, I think most people are okay with less content as the cost of the overall quality being higher. At least that is my hope.

Fuck this is depressing.

So it's not the rampant misery of the world he helped create and run that is keeping him awake at night, but the fear of the unwashed masses stringing him up for it.

I'd love for this kind of person to spontaneously combust during a bout of explosive diarrhea.

He is not going to stop, people outside France need to understand this. This man, despite his mild mannered centrist exterior, is an authoritarian. He will stop at nothing short of full tilt censorship. Environmental and political activists are being jailed for no reason while fascist groups run amok. This is bad.

It would be a fun experiment to fill a lemmy instance with bots, defederate it from everybody then check back in 2 years. A cordonned off Alabama for AI if you will.

This guys are litterally pissing on the captain while the Titanic sinks. Quite the move.

I host my own instance mostly because I find it fun to do, and because it allows me to choose which communities and instance I federate with without having my account tied to the whims of somebody else.

Yes they were bought by an Israeli spyware company.

I always expected someone to coin the term pornporn to describe the excess of pornographic images. Alas, it was not to be.

T his is not new. He just stopped giving a shit about hiding it.

Well they do have their hats.

Whataboutism is a hell of a drug. I'm afraid people in many countries are so used to not having those freedoms that they look at us weird for trying to keep them.

I guess this could be a way to finally create that genocidal AI everybody keeps promising us is definately coming.

Our ranking is unfortunately not getting any better, just look at what is currently happening with Les soulèvements de la terre.

I understand Le Pen would be worse, I truly do. I actually voted against her in the last two elections. But imagine Le Pen in power, which is very likely to happen soon, with all those legal framework already in place. She is going to have the mother of all field days.

You absolutely can find my view to be an exaggeration. Some part of me hope it is. But I'm quite worried about our future as a country right now.

This is true but if you were to do that most people would simply not receive your emails. The fight against spam has effectively turned email into an oligopoly.

That update is bonkers. So much better than the last one. Cheers and thanks to the dev !

This. The internet as it is today is utterly unusable without at least 3 levels of as blocking. Truly a dystopian nightmare (not to mention the environmental impact of this garbage).