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This is not about petty politics and frankly I think your topic shift is completely out of place here. What this is fundamentally about is preventing any idiot with money and/or power from purchasing/capturing and then proceeding to ruin our townsquares like some wannabe totalitarian asshole. And some people will say that "it's ok, because it's a private platform and he bought/built it". Ok, now it's a million private platforms, he can go buy each and every one of them and we'll make new ones and move to the ones he hasn't bought yet.

Which reminds me: we need a leopardsatemyface community

It's the same as when he started talking about "landed peasantry", the projection is strong, aware or not.

I don't see why this is a problem (apart from supposedly private data like email), it's not just Google that can do this, all this data is available to everyone for everyone who can use it to benefit. If you want to make Google pay for a publicly available good, tax them accordingly. That's the point of taxes: if you are successful enough to take advantage in any way from a country's public roads, education system, access to a labour market and a functioning society generally, taxing the massive profits from using that system is fair, not enclosing everything and holding access to the content we contributed hostage.

Because reddit is inundated with bots and trolls. You could see it during the gone private strike, people who can't think 2 steps ahead heckling the mods for wanting to be able to do their job voluntarily.

PS: see !https://lemmy.world/post/1044141

Major reason not to buy ebooks from amazon: you can't lend, give, exchange, sell them and you may lose all of them if you anger the right people. They are not yours, you are not buying them, you merely paid for conditioned access to them.

They get defederated wherever they get consistently banned...and then they can federate with their friends and make their community of shit and yell at each other or something.

Reddit answers to shareholders and a board of directors. Each fediverse instance is run by its owner and negotiates with other instances to federate.

If some bigshot wants to own reddit or rule it like a totalitarian asshole, he can buy it and vandalize it if he wants to. If some bigshot wants to own the fediverse, good luck buying the thousands of instances that exist and they still wouldn't get us, because we'd move to or create new instances.

Lol I'm 40% sure this is a joke, but in case it isn't: if you place conductors in the microwave: sometimes it's a spoon, sometimes it's the silver lining on a plate, or you can go overboard and throw actual alluminium foil in there for good measure...the microwaves drive a current in the conductor, which creates sparks from lots of tiny shortcircuits...lightning indeed my friend :D

Suggestion: Forks are particularly spectacular too

PS: the foil should act as shielding against the microwaves, so I predict that the content won't warm up, but maybe the hole is enough to let it heat it a bit :)

True, but if you wanted those things before AirBnB, they existed, they're called aparthotels e.g.: https://www.booking.com/hotel/es/art-las-palmas.es.html?label=gen173bo-1DCAMYsQIoggJCGmxhcy1wYWxtYXMtZGUtZ3Jhbi1jYW5hcmlhSApYA2i7AYgBAZgBCrgBF8gBD9gBA-gBAfgBAogCAZgCAqgCA7gCp7PVpQbAAgHSAiRkYWQxZjI5NS1hMDBhLTQxMzYtOTI3OS1jNWM1OTczYjAxYWTYAgTgAgE

with a kitchen, washing machine, etc. Very common in touristy areas for decades.

The main difference between an AirBnB and a generalized hotel is that the former is supposed to be inhabited by the owner most of the year. The others are hotels pretending to be something else.

What I read before is that the plan was for facebook to introduce cheap instance hosting at the expense of making it a "franchise" they can control, monetize, monitor...somewhere between a self-hosted instance and a reddit sub.

Can I just say that I'm really happy that so many yt alternatives by people who aren't morons are starting to appear? At some point, all I saw from friends and reddit was all bitchute and voat and they tried to stick this alt-right tinge to the fediverse, but alternatives to big corporate are starting to become more normal again.

I don't have downvotes in my instance, but if I did, this is the sort of post I would use them on.

We'll live. Long live the fediverse (and old-school forums)

BTW: was there ever or is there any sort of listing for all sorts of hobbyist or thematic forums? The main reason I never used many of them was because I never came across them and admittedly it was pretty easy to do that in reddit just by typing r/doesacommunityforthistopicexist

edit: is there some similar listing for mastodon? I'm having trouble finding a type of technical-oriented crowd.

No lemmy, no mastodon? Uuuhh...back to IRC, some forum maybe.

PS: Element looks like a pretty good FOSS alternative to discord.

I can give you a perfect example of car brain that even applies to people who try not to drive too much:

The other day I saw a dude complaining that they keep putting zebra crossings at roundabout exits and he insisted that this was just done to use pedestrians to slow down roundabout exits, but that what these city planners were doing was dangerous, since more than once he had almost run over a pedestrian or stopped suddenly and endangered cars behind him. :/

Then somebody actually asked: "Ok, so where the fuck do you suggest that the zebra crossings be placed for the people actually walking along the streets that cross the roundabout in multiple directions? Do you expect them to walk 20m further?"

sudden paradigm shift and some drivers actually became aware of car brain.

Ooh, that's less than 5c/user/month, this can totally work without overloading with ads.

It's not so much a dark pattern, but an emergent property of the upvote system: usually the first commenters tended to have an advantage and late good comments actually would never get enough exposure to float to the top.

Karma farmers would just sit at "new", spam comments and get visibility for joke and outrage comments.

The solution may be to randomly order comments below a certain threshold and/or within an upvote range.

It's interesting, because moderation here is public: you can check the modlog at the bottom of the page to see what was removed. Transparency is awesome, plus you get to see what mods have to deal with every day.