Good intentions, but I would be wary of anything not official like foldingathome or boinc (both great projects I recommend)
The reason is other people are horrible, and while your intentions are good, it's significant risk. Lemmy had a csam attack a while ago and I immediately moved my instance to the cloud because I learned that if I even accidentally hosted anything it means immediate seizure, self hosting it means they plow through my door and yank the servers.
Tor nodes, peertube, you open yourself up to that risk
Not a lawyer, but the only thing I can think of is if you incorporated and then banned anything like that in the area - but that's a massive amount of lift I'm pretty sure
It's astounding how stupid that decision was. Fakespot, quite literally a device to help deter people from buying products, was gobbled up by way too much money by Mozilla - who - apparently wanted it to make profit? How?! Why?! Why did they even buy it?
I think it was just executive idiocy. They searched for extensions with the term privacy in them, bought it, and thought it would make their product worth more. I'm getting really tired of companies just sunsetting products the instant they don't make money.
God damnit so they bought Fakespot, an extension that actually did good, hiding fake botted reviews and reanalyzing them - and now they're killing it. It was literally an extension to help prevent unnecessary buying. Why the hell did they even buy it?
We acquired Fakespot in 2023 to help people navigate unreliable product reviews using AI and privacy-first tech. While the idea resonated, it didn’t fit a model we could sustain.
I think a good chunk of them are just confused by going to join-lemmy and not be given a sign up in their face. Sure, we know that about 5 seconds of reading comprehension skill would get them where they want to go, but the vast majority of users don't have that. Look how many people will walk up to a cash register/till with a sign on it that says "credit card only" and then be confused that they don't take cash. Most people don't read anymore.
Maybe, but I believe in Occam's razer. The simplest solution is probably correct.
The average user is incredibly lazy. Insanely lazy. Reddit has taught them that they should be just spoonfed content constantly with no assistance. People aren't used to going out to find communities anymore. To them even these basic concepts are then "frustrating" and "complex". It's unfortunate, but that's really how lazy they are.
They can't go to the search bar, type in television, and hit subscribe, it's literally too much for them.
So they have rounds of layoffs, staff feel less secure in their role, and they're surprised that knowledgeable and easily employable experts are leaving for more stable roles?
I run Bazzite, primarily gaming for everything, added jellyfin as a non steam app. Works pretty well. Wish jellyfin had a slightly better interface but overall decent.
Most everything works with the controller, and for anything that doesn't steam will emulate a keyboard and mouse for, but I keep a keyboard next to it just in case
Well, yes, but also McDonald's did it to themselves too. About 20 years ago when I worked there (holy shit I just realized it was 20 years ago), they had the Angus 1/3 pounders. They flopped hard. Exact same reasoning, both from their corporate offices and me anecdotally, people are fucking stupid. They really thought they were getting ripped off because the quarter pounder was more meat than the 1/3 pound Angus burger according to them. I, tiny teenage me tried explaining it to them, to no avail. Fucking morons.
You want to lose hope for the human race, work in a service industry
This is another great example of pidgeonholing a decent idea into the wrong tech. Lemmy is federated, but is meant to be an open messageboard style of communication. This would be better suited for an actual chat/audio protocol, like Matrix or XMPP.
Yup, it's the same people that come here, say horribly offensive stuff, and then get offended when people tell them to shut the hell up and ban them. They're all for "free speech" but are not so great with the whole "free to not be forced to listen to them" bit.
However, my answer is always the same to them. We're federated. If you don't like it, to set up your own instance and allow whatever you want, and I can maintain my freedom to defederate from said instance. The one kudos to this guy is he did take that on, and is willing to risk hosting that content. Good for them. I'll be banning the url from my instance
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Marketing really has just ran away with everything. I wonder what they'll rename the console as