Revanced still costs $0/month.

I don't trust them one bit, but this makes more sense than EEE. The fediverse just isn't that big. We don't have anything they want. But what they do want is to be allowed to launch Threads in the EU without DMA issues.

People are worried that they'll embrace, extend and extinguish it. That is, join the fediverse, make Threads a better client than any of the existing ones until everyone uses their client, then use that extra reach to harm the fediverse.

I'm personally not that worried, because of who we are. We're a bunch of geeks with anarchist leanings, and so probably wouldn't switch to Threads anyway.

It's not cheating to have a similar UI. Fuck off Musk.

While democratic socialism is a variety of socialism, Bernie isn't really a democratic socialist, but a social democrat. Social democracy is the left of capitalism, which is right of socialism in any form.

Before some moron turns up, Nazism is not socialism.

No. No it wasn't. Antifaschistische Aktion was a paramilitary wing of the communists, fighting both the social democratic Iron Front and the Nazi Sturmabteilung.

The only way in which it could be said to be allied with the Nazis is that both of them opposed the social democrats, but the enemy of your enemy is not in fact your friend. The KPD saw both the SPD and the NSDAP as fascists, rather than in any way allying with the NSDAP against the SPD.

It's like people are forgetting that piracy is actually illegal.

Well, yeah. It was the cool new thing, now it isn't.

It's because they grew up with it rather than actively learning it. UIs have started to hide the actual details, so the users don't pick them up.

I mean, you probably are, especially if it's explicitly political. All I can recommend is CONSTANT VIGILANCE!

Yeah, it's the ultimate midwit take. Smart enough to realise it's an abstraction, not smart enough to realise that there's a base reality (goods themselves being scarce) beneath it.

Because it's all signalling, there's nothing really there to get. The reason "people of colour" is okay and "coloured people" isn't isn't because of any real difference between the phrases, but because people who use the former are generally supportive of them, while people who use the latter aren't.

1. I'm not American either.
2. The vast majority of countries in the world have copyright.

Now I'm not morally against piracy, pirate away. It's just illegal.

Somewhere that isn't a little bitch, yeah.

All social media has network effects, in which the value to a user is roughly proportional to the number of other users (probably not fully proportional at the high end, but definitely positively sloped).

That's exactly the point. The reason "coloured people" isn't okay is precisely because people like that moron use it.

NTA. Your roommate is a wee asshole.

Choice 2. 5 is ridiculous and more harmful to the fediverse than the worst case of EEE.

So the argument for them bending the knee is that someone on a different instance disagrees with you?

I mean, ActivityPub as a whole sucks at privacy.