nomadjoanne @ nomadjoanne @lemmy.world

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Good to know.

It is hard when you have a business. You really have to actively try to stay away from them. They control so much business infrastructure.

I know my business partner (god bless him, great friend but...) is super into big tech and every new product they offer. So it's a bit of an uphill battle.

And I'm lucky. I own my own firm. Most people don't have such a luxury.

Yup. Nothing is permanent and that's okay. I was on Facebook back in the days when you still had to be invited. I no longer am for anything other than work (because I have to be). Maybe in ten years I'll no longer be here. It's fine.

There will always be an avant garde tech crowd moving to the next thing.

I honestly rarely if ever posted on Reddit. I just had an account and used a third party app to keep up to date with some tech stuff. But their behavior so revolted me that I came here and actually got involved being on Lemmy.

While I doubt they ever made any money off the crowd that left (cos let's be honest, we know about ad-blockers, etc.), if the most active users left, their content will suffer, and hence the website's general attractiveness probably also will.

I am proud, but by no means "extremely" proud to be American. I think a lot of European countries have a chiller attitude when it comes to national pride. They do have it, but with a few exceptions, they're not too in-your-face about it. And they're much more willing to recognize their shortcomings.

In the US you get these "America is the best country on earth" morons, as well as "all the world's ills are caused by evil US" morons. They're both stupid.

Actually, California produces a ton of the US's fruits and vegetables (like, 90%+ of a lot of fruits). Just not cereal grains. I bet the costs could probably grow their own food if it came to that. Were there no trade between the states, the middle of the country would have plenty calorie-wise, but not the most varied of diets.

I love how you're an asshole for no apparent reason. We both like this place and are on the same team, even if we disagree about some things.

But, in all seriousness, I really have the feeling that you are approaching this from the standpoint of a lawyer or someone on the marketing team of a large corporation. Of course a service like lemmy.world, or any of the larger instances, should consult with a lawyer at some point if they haven't already. But this is not a mega-corporation, and I don't think many people in Lemmy apart from you have any intention of running it like one.

Of course these services cost money to run and protect. No one is saying it's free. To give a similar example, some of the largest Invidious instances blow though several terabytes a day. So they are very much dependent on donations. We should all try and chip in if we are able.

I'm a bit unconvinced that we would want to scale. Why is growth necessarily good? We'd end up looking much like mainstream social media by that point. A lot of regulatory compliance, a lot of normie BS on the platform, etc. There is still probably some room to grow before that becomes a reality though.

I think it's a fine line to walk, but being and staying a bit niche isn't such a bad thing.

It's called "conservative" for a reason, you could say. Good point.

I think part of the problem is that laws in the developed world essentially make in extremely expensive to run one of these services if you have a lot of users per month.

Te heart of the issue is that at some point it becomes more useful for mega-corporations to have a cozy relationship with the government than with you. It used to be that if a service found that there was child porn on their service, the law simply required them to remove it and report it to the police. Very reasonable.

The thing is though, if that is all the compliance one needs to follow, then the creation of new firms and services is quite easy. Mega-corporations don't like this. They want to slow the creation of new services and firms because this slows the appearance of new competition. Hence they become pro-regulation, and, I'd argue, attempt to shift the entire culture towards paranoia and a demand for more regulation.

Perhaps the only defense is to stay small. Obviously don't allow any abusive or illegal content. But stay small so that you can skirt by without having to deal with compliance with the big-boy regulations.

Interesting. That is a good point

tl;dr.

In Western European prisions the water is drinkable, they feed you enough and they don't privatize elements of running the place... 🙄

From what you've said though there seem to be benefits from cleaning up Gecko in order to make it feasible to turn it into something similar to Electron.

Yes after a decade of living in Europe I can only say, "fucking finally!"

Consciousness is not material.

The US has a third world prison system...

I think at the moment both liberals and conservative have their darling companies that they like.

Oh wow. Thanks for that explanation. It only has made me angrier at Mozilla. They have completely lost their way and forgotten their original mission.

I wonder why Mozilla didn't want their own rendering engine to compete with Blink...

This. Someone who knows how to use their brain.

There is no Paradise. There is no solution. Reality will always be messy and every solution will always end up creating its own problems. True for capitalism, socialism, or any other social order.

Which is not to say we should not always attempt to improve the world.

The Servo fork? Oh I've never heard of that. I'll have to look into it.