I like Lemmy, but it's not decentralised enough to avoid things like this.
I think it's inevitable right now, even if it's a lot rarer than it was during the great exodus from reddit. You're reliant entirely on the goodwill of volunteers.
User accounts are unique only to an instance, and there's no way to move them. If we want to avoid this, having multiple homes on an account would be a good first step. You probably don't want them going everywhere (as that would need login details, which while hashed wouldn't be immune to bad actors getting them). But making a new account elsewhere isn't hard, it's just annoying to lose your history.
Any lost communities are much harder to replace. Links get broken, etc. You can't move those either, so have to make them anew and convince people to update any links before they vanish.
Honestly not sure if Lemmy's approach is a good one or not. Recently we've had transphobic users from one instance harassing people on another, and without things like IP addresses, it's hard to stop that. Your own instance also has to host a bunch of stuff from other places, and you can end up with illegal content being copied to your own hardware if hosting an instance. Maybe it should be on the instances to host communities, and on the clients to gather things from multiple servers.
When it's just you, on your own PC, and you don't value your time, it's free.
Just from the license fees here, we're talking what, roughly 2000 employees?
At that scale, you're going to be paying for support. Whether through a third party, or employing enough people to fix all the things that can go wrong. And not everyone in IT knows enough about Linux to fix broken boxes.
I once recommended Linux for our customer servers, to be installed hundreds of miles away. And what I found was that employees who knew Linux (and specifically how to fix it when it fucks up) were more expensive than the trained monkeys we sent out to fix things, who at least knew how to copy data off it and reinstall Windows/slap a new drive in it, and that issues were my fault for recommending it. It was also easier to talk customers through some settings in Windows if it falls off the network somehow, than it was to deal with getting them to type things into a command line.
And that's before you even consider servers and where your stuff all goes. With MS it goes into "the cloud", and you don't need to worry too much about anything other than paying for it. With your own hardware, you very much need to worry because if you don't, then one day it won't be there any more.
Congo was part of the wave of creature feature movies that followed Jurassic Park.
Anaconda, Lake Placid, etc. All chasing a high they had no chance of ever reaching. They're all a bit shit, but I can't help have some nostalgia for them.
The Tates sell their "be a man" coaching package. The message from the top of this bullshit, is that there is something you can do, we have the secrets, now give us money.
He had a meeting with the Saudis the other week. He looks bad normally, but standing next to them in their white clothes, the photographer couldn't fuck with the white balance as much, and he looked absurd, like a fucking Oompa Loompa.
The fact that it stops miles from his hair and eyes as well, like they apply this shit with a stencil and a spray can.
Gotta be Jason Isaacs, surely?