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witness.

You download a copy of a photo I took to your computer.

I have a website that lets people see the photo, it's a popular website

Except that photo on my website doesn't point to a copy of that photo on one of my computers, it points to the copy on yours.

Millions of people visit my website, and each time they do, they download your copy of my photo.

Uploading that photo to millions of computers across the world fucks up your internet service. You could also switch out my photo for another one, maybe even an offensive one,, but my website would still point visitors to it.

In the original post, this is what a multibillion dollar corporation, a bank, did to a not-for-profit service that keeps a historical record of the internet.

I hinted at the security implications of what happened, but explaining that would make the analogy too complex.

It is a selfish and short view of the world.

Empathy, cognitive, emotional, compassionate, comes more naturally to some individuals than to others.

What you see here is someone who may not understand the situation and its consequences, or has trouble forming a connection with the people impacted by the situation. But the compassion does show, they're reaching out, asking questions, trying to understand.

I don't think that's a sign of a selfish or short-sighted person.

I'm thinking of leaving lemmy, too.

Information is worthless without context, but that's all that content aggregators seem to like.

Community is worthless without connection, anonymous text isn't much to connect over.

All Reddit had going for it was a wealth of diverse experiences for people to draw from. For Lemmy, this is at best a side dish, a sprinkle of gold over a pile of shit.

u r dumb enough to let someone take advantage of your naivety in some topic out there, tech nerd.

that's just how shit works, remember it.

lemmy users are a sausagefest and completely full of shit. THIS IS REASONABLE ADVICE FOR PEOPLE WHO GET INTO ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIPS; I was talking about ppl who know the signs of abusers. WE WERE TALKING ABOUT DIFFERENT THINGS, YOU DUMBFUCKS.

It doesn't even need to be a secret account, def see it being a hella good litmus test, too; check whether someone's "I love you" means "no matter what, right now I want the best for you" or "I want to own you"

guys like that are... just no

I nominate itch to cannibalise the fucker

Drinking game: click on a random username in the comments section and take a shot every time they start talking out of their ass

My account doesn't count (although I am flattered, weirdo)

for the love of everything unholy please fucking caption your sources inside the picture

i'm goddamn sick of scrolling through a bunch of redditors' comments to find the context behind a genuinely interesting graphic.

edit: oh wait, there is none

any competently run service that gets you away from the tech conglomerates will work

fuck proton mail, bring your own encryption

Android with play services*. Degoogled phones are dumb as rocks and some people like em that way

didn't they like... scrape everyone's open source code for an ai and then gatekeep that shit to their own infra?

got a newsflash for u, there's more to life than just trying to being 'right' about shit