esaru @ esaru @beehaw.org

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Why does it make a difference that gun manufacturers charge for their weapens. They make them accessible for basically every adult. If they didn't sell them to basically everyone, many shootings would not happen, as world wide statistics show. Earning income on what they provide makes them even more responsible, because they profit off from the selling. I don't see why they are not being charged for selling it to people that use it to commit crimes, and someone providing an exit point does get charged because he lets people use it while he has no control at all over who uses his access point.

Why do people think they are "buying" something when in fact they are "renting". Everything that's not in your power is not in your posession, hence it's not something you have bought. This counts for ebooks with DRM as well as those online games. Amazon and other companies call it "buying" to make people believe it's equal to real books, games ect. in their posession, and people do believe it.

He doesn't care what people say about him, as long as they keep talking about him. You can make a lot of money by being a controversial figure nowadays. Being popular by being controversial is the business model.

And it works obviously. I didn't know this guy until this post.

That's true. But it's nice to have an account on a federated messenger and use it with a couple close contacts, as you won't feel affected by the constant threats to centralized services.

There are many servers to choose from:

1. Prosody
2. ejabberd
3. Openfire
4. Tigase
5. MongooseIM
6. Metronome

They are easy to set up, and low on resources.

Time for a federation of messengers. The XMPP protocol is ready and waiting for you.

Reddit has shown the middle finger to users' decade-long commitment, ignored all complaints, and demonstrated it doesn't care, which has destroyed all trust.

Now, Reddit is asking, "Can we be friends now so you can continue to work for us for free? We want to follow through with our plan of cashing in and need your contribution."

If someone plans to move to my neighborhood and that one has a record of burning down houses, it's not a good idea to give it a chance.

The feeling that commercial platforms give me is being harassed until I pay them money.

I like to support platforms, but don't like being milked like a milk cow.

That's why I'm completely open source and on free networks only.

Let's start with Facebook first, the platform that made a walled garde out of

• messengers (went from XMPP to walled garden)
• websites (businesses having facebook pages rather than freely accessible websites)
• used product markets
• online communities
• email (sending email to a Facebook user is converted into a private message on Facebook rather than sending out the email, at least that was a thing in the past)
• ... (insert any Facebook service here)

You can't trust Facebook, it's about turning its users into a product for marketers, and that's it.

"healthy" here means "healthy for the Fediverse", which means "being nice to each other" and supporting diversity, both values being contrary to the Facebook network, which is predatory to other networks, as having proven in the past.

The need is to prevent the predatory network accessing the one that promotes diversity and freedom of choice, but that is weaker.

There is a downside: Because many people don't see the negative long-term effects, Facebook will have enough time to influence and dominate the Fediverse in a negative way. The masses don't see what Facebook is doing in the long run.

There's also not much reason to federate with Facebook. Sign up there if you like that network.

It's not only about ignoring Facebook users. Imagine in real life a bully comes to your group and you could block him, so you don't see him, but he still influences the people around you in a negative way, changing the environment you used to love. You better make sure he stays out of your circle. Facebook has a long record of destroying other social networks.

Because the long-term influence of such a powerful yet detrimental network like Facebook is bad, and when the negative effects for the Fediverse show up, or even later, when enough people realize it, the Fediverse will have been influenced in a way that it can't go back to a healthy state.

ChatGPT can do this as well.

For all those apps keep in mind they store everything you enter, so you might decide not to share personal information. Also, by combining different chunks of your data that each one by itself doesn't contain much information about you, they can get to know more about you than you thought at the beginning.

As long as people protect their house or land, or any posessions, as long we will have borders of countries. It's just the extension of what most people want for their own property. We create a system that protects our property within the borders, and then we need to protect those borders in ordrer to protect that system.

In many cases a Markdown checklist in a shared text file works better than those dynamic task apps. Add new tasks at the bottom of the list as they come up, and cross them off when being done. At the end of a month you start a new checklist with open tasks you consider still relevant and mark them as migrated on the old list.

 markdown

    
# Shared Tasks

## May 2023

* [X] done task
* [X] another done task
* [-] deleted task
* [>] migrated task (to next month)

## July 2023

* [ ] migrated task (from last month)
* [ ] new open task
  - comment
  - another comment
  - [ ] nested task A
  - [ ] nested task B
* [X] some done task

  

This way all you need is Syncthing or a cloud storage with a shared folder.

By migrating you'll get a fresh list every month, and a monthly protocoll of what has been done in the previous months.

Exactly. "Wait and see" if they implement EEE in the Fediverse is naive because by the time we detect their actions, it will be too late to protect the Fediverse from its effects.