I hear you bro. It's maddening how I have to submit legal documents through fucking whatsapp of all places. I'd ask if I can email them instead, or even better, hand them personally to avoid all the techy bs. They'll look at me like a caveman appeared from the mountains, and tell me "But you're applying for an IT job! Don't tell me you don't use smartphones!".
Sure, ma'am. Sucking zucc's dick means being a developer, wow.
It's like watching the history of internet filesharing and warez from the 90s on a speedrun. LW happened to be the most populous instance by chance, and the nature of federated network means the admins can get legally held liable for contents they didn't choose nor wanted to host, because all it takes is another federated server going rogue.
Sure, freedom of speech is fundamental. But it's a hard place between "saving yourself from financial and legal troubles" and "betraying the (vaguely defined) principles". When the crowd is shouting "freedom of speech", they don't just want a nice speech for an announcement; they want the admins become a martyr for the cause. And shit, what for? For some vague internet fame?
Had lemmy.ml become the largest instance, we would have potentially watched this unfold on lemmy devs themselves. Knowing their political affiliations, it might have turned into a different scenario. Legal threats might have been rebutted in an open way that even pleased the "freeze peach" crowd despite the "tankie" accusations. Perhaps all the extra pressure and legal threats meant Lemmy development come to a halt and slowly decline. But no one knows, really.
I don't condone nor condemn LW or its staff. I wish they didn't have to carry the baggage of becoming the guinea pig of this ongoing experiment.
Laws being made in good faith and corporations taking advantage of ambiguities or loopholes for "compliance" has been the staple of western corporate lore. I'm sure many of those commenters would love replaceable batteries with usb-c port on their phones too.
Problem is that languages get in the way. Some are pretty similar like 15 ago (Spanish) being 15 Aug (English), but 1 ene (Spanish) aren't that similar to 1 Jan (English).
And for the usual "But English is used everwhere! I live in X!" crowd: NO, it isn't. Not everything you see as an "expat" is the same as the actual locals with their own language.
Thanks for the encouragement. I suppose I can make a macro or a temporary marker to replace them for proper syntax like you described when I'm in a hurry? I first have to transform some of the notes I'm using to org-mode syntax first so I can get used to this.
I hear you bro. It's maddening how I have to submit legal documents through fucking whatsapp of all places. I'd ask if I can email them instead, or even better, hand them personally to avoid all the techy bs. They'll look at me like a caveman appeared from the mountains, and tell me "But you're applying for an IT job! Don't tell me you don't use smartphones!".
Sure, ma'am. Sucking zucc's dick means being a developer, wow.