There is definitely a small set of powerful, rich, and influential people who “benefit”, but I don’t think it’s a pyramid of nefarious overlords so much as it is just a large web of people acting on their own interests.
The same could be said for people with crab mentality. They are acting on their impulses, values, and opinions, born from likely unfortunate circumstances, when they drag their immediate others down. They aren’t thinking about holding society back at large.
Those are all just crabs in the bucket. Some of the more aggressively single-minded ones are nearer to the top of the pile than others.
Also... Exactly how much of a contribution are we losing from people who care deeply enough about piracy to want to leave Lemmy as a whole rather than make a tiny amount of effort.
Like... If they aren't people who want to pay for things or put any personal energy into them... How will we notice they have gone?
The fuck are you talking about? Lemmy.world has defederated from other Lemmy communities that are about piracy. Those Lemmy communities that are about piracy still exist and are part of Lemmy.
Are you entirely certain you understand what the difference is between Lemmy and Lemmy.World?
It's a bit like the difference between the United States and San Fransisco if that helps at all...
Noone's stopping users from using Lemmy.World here. You just can't do stuff related to piracy in the process. There's a difference between "you can't do X here" and "you aren't allowed to be here." If you're incapable of engaging with a social space without bringing piracy into it that's a you issue.
You should probably add in a step where you stop to consider why there is a correlation between an instance refusing to block stuff and it's admins being scumbags. If the entire Fediverse divides itself into people who disagree with your position on what should and shouldn't be blocked and people who agree with your position but also have a bunch of awful beliefs you can't support... Maybe you're just fucking wrong on this one?
And most likely he was paying more then than someone earning the same amount does today. We're not even close to scrapping our way back out of society being profoundly imbalanced towards the wealthy.
I mean... That seems like an argument for equipping people with better literacy skills given that any competent reading of 1984 would turn you away from fascism.
It’s still not a justifiable reason to neglect 50% of the population under the incorrect assumption that human physiology is the same across the board.
I'm not sure who's worse. The people planning research who still mistakenly believe that it's correct to just study one group and presume it applies to a group that would have been more complicated to study or the ones who know it doesn't work that way but just pretend it does because it's more convenient.
Don't get me wrong, there are contexts where doing an imperfect job now and trying to fill in the details later is the best strategy. But I don't believe that's actually what's going on most of the time.
It's such an exhausting problem that so many people hold society back from meeting everyone's needs, because society fails to meet everyone's needs and thereby creates people who hold society back from meeting everyone's needs, because...
It feels like being locked in a room full of people flinging shit at each other because they are mad that people won't stop flinging shit at them and everytime you try to gently suggest they all just stop flinging shit they just start flinging it at you until you shut up.
People refuse to try to address that sort of wooly thinking when it is low stakes then when it becomes high stakes act shocked to see the people around them acting irrationally. One's hypothetical friend who refused to take the vaccine because they thought it had a mind control chip in it and died as a result invariably was previously banging on about how their acupuncturist was going to help them win the lottery and people simply indulged them because "what's the harm in them having funny beliefs about things?" The only time you actually could get through to people around you about these harmful ways of thinking is when it's about things that don't really matter much. If you wait until it's life or death it's too late to get though to them.
Broadly yes. In the case of Minecraft I think at least one version is just made for Linux though so probably best to just follow the official instructions for installing it. But any game that's made for Windows you're best bet is to install it from either Steam or Lutris in the first instance.
The conversation gets a bit scrambled/broken up by disruptive/toxic people but this is a comment chain on lemmy.ml two weeks ago about SQL issues and challenges in getting the Lemmy Dev team to address them that might be worth reading:
Two directions at once. It wasn't long ago I saw someone very irate that these SQL issues needlessly exist, and that they had repeatedly tried to tell the Lemmy devs that they are an issue and been shrugged off about it. So the Lemmy devs who have decided that not acknowledging the problem is the same as the problem not existing are definitely partly to blame.
Mostly though the person to blame is whomever is a using whatever weaknesses exist to try to disrupt Lemmy.World because of their own personal bullshit.
Just install Steam and Lutris and install all your games through either Steam or Lutris and they'll generally just work from there.
(Noone uses just wine directly and manually for their games anymore unless there's a special reason. Valve developed a specialised version called Proton that mashes together Wine, DXVK and a bunch of tweaks specifically for gaming. Steam automatically installs it and then any Windows game installed through Steam is automatically configured with Proton for you. Lutris is an app that does that but for installing games without using Steam.)
Those are all just crabs in the bucket. Some of the more aggressively single-minded ones are nearer to the top of the pile than others.