We need to address that first before anything else
Why not both? Doing these other things does not prevent you from fighting for regulations etc. However, arguing they aren't regulated yet so you don't give a shit about what you do is absolutely worse.
The most bang for our buck? We've been arguing that companies should be regulated for decades. These other habits have been known to be an improvement for years already.
Don't push off what you can already do today simply because companies still polute. That's pointless and counter productive.
Aside from large cost investment ones (vehicle) or giving up a vehicle, none of these are really difficult.
Also if you actively decide to not have a child so you can fly 3 times a year, that's still technically a better choice. Hell even if you don't actively decide, it's still better. The point is to try and do as well as you can. And then vote and fight to get regulations put in place on companies who are responsible for a hell of a lot more.
Didn't say blackmail the fediverse. I'm saying blackmail the company trying to spread CSAM.
And again, you don't derail a movement. You try to own it if you really care.
But even then, it's not worth it. XMPP has been "competing" for far longer and likely had more success up front than Lemmy or Kbin.
You're severely overestimating the potential here. And you're severely overestimating how much a company would want to destroy it instead of exploiting any other success. There's money to be lost in paying to derail it. There's money to be made in exploiting it.
It likely costs them a whole lot more to hire multiple people. There are more costs associated with employees than just wage. Thats why turnover costs money. And a few dollars more per hour over three years over how many people in their 20 locations?
This is likely a wash for them compared to hiring more people or paying more to get older people.
Let's bear in mind this is by far the smallest fine they've been hit with for child labor and they keep doing it. I can't imagine their accountants are that bad.
I think it's selling point is supposed to be voice commands and haptic controls (actual knob and what not). The interface does look like it'd be superior to the phone (at least a non-android auto or whatever Apple's is called) though I dunno if it's $100 superior.
Nah, still worth it. Probably cost less than hiring multiple people and training them. Probably even got away with paying less per hour than someone who can work more hours legally too.
I'm pretty sure access to records doesn't mean business data. It's more likely business records. The US government wouldn't be able to efficiently go through that data anyway. Big Data doesn't work that way.
It's like saying you're going to copy YouTube videos as they're uploaded.
The more intelligent solution is what Meta is doing with Threads. Not something like this. There'd be a lot more money blackmailing the company than to mess with CSAM.
Big corps are a lot sneakier than something so blunt.
Nah. The risk greatly outweighs the reward. Even if this hits the news, I doubt it'd affect numbers on here that much, especially since it's not that big. It's not even big enough to cause issues for "competitors" (and I use the term lightly). The fediverse is simply not really ready to compete with established actors. So the "benefit" is quite small. The risk if they're caught includes executives getting jail time and likely irreversible harm to their brand.
It's simply a delay in activation. The signups are virtually identical with one added question stating you read the note which is the same as the one above in the post.
Because they're not trying to make a big deal about how easily CSAM spread throughout federated instances making all hosts possibly legally liable. Instances in the US are probably ok, due to various laws like safe harbor for platform providers but with instances all over the world, they all have their own laws to contend with and many never expected this
To make it clear, the form is virtually the same as before with one additional question. It just asks you to state you read the note that is the same as the note in the post above. The application is virtually identical beyond that. But, the biggest difference, is like you said, an admin needs to approve it.
The application is a question asking if you read the statement (which is the same as the post above).
The rest of the application is the same application you had to fill out when you created the account even when it was open sign ups. The only real difference is it's not automatically accepted but manually accepted.
I agree it's annoying and hopefully will one day soon not be necessary, but "degrading" is something I don't think ever occurred to me. Is there some aspect to having to get manually approved that is degrading that I'm not aware of?
These links appear to be about something possibly related but slightly different. These involve treating traumatic memories that already rooted themselves. The post above is about preventing the memories from being rooted in the first place. Sure, they could be related concepts and mechanisms, but they are different.
No, it's just a very poorly thought out rebrand. Articles keep saying "X, formerly Twitter" because without it, articles actually sound pretty bad and look silly. It's a bad name for an Internet service. It's generic. It doesn't do well in web searches. It doesn't sound good when talking out loud. It's all around a poor idea according to any marketing theory. People are used to saying tweets. It already essentially had total mind share. It was the standard for microblogging. It reached "Kleenex" or "band-aid" status in being the default reference for the concept.
And he just ditched it because he likes the letter X.
Why not both? Doing these other things does not prevent you from fighting for regulations etc. However, arguing they aren't regulated yet so you don't give a shit about what you do is absolutely worse.
The most bang for our buck? We've been arguing that companies should be regulated for decades. These other habits have been known to be an improvement for years already.
Don't push off what you can already do today simply because companies still polute. That's pointless and counter productive.