As he stated, the service is scaled for the heyday of twitter migration with headroom to spare. Naturally the base infra is going to cost quite a bit.

He’s probably sized to run 5-6 times the capacity he needs at the moment.

People see social media and other things like e-mail and video content as free services.

They just want to join and get on with their lives. Most “normies” don’t really care about being served ads or being tracked. If you tell them about the surveillance industry behind the scenes they just shrug and keep scrolling their Insta feeds and clicking their youtube videos. Even people who complain about ads seem to be incapable of action if you suggest they install ad-blocker.

The people who understand or care about the problem are the ones who might donate, but not all of them. It’s a subset or an subset.

As Jerry says, the donation economy would not be sustainable if the Fediverse was the size of Facebook. Unfortunately that has more to do with human psyche than actual technical merits of ActivityPub or the Fediverse.

And then the game wouldn’t work.

It doesn’t have to be open source. There’s plenty of binary firmware and drivers around.

I wish nothing but the absolute worst for Spotify

I wish nothing but the absolute worst for him

The Europol’s precog crime-prevention AI needs to be fed again, I see. I’m assuming this is “for the safety of our children” again.

Yeah. On Twitter as well

Sure. Just saying this is federated and you don’t really control where this post ends up.

Uh, there are plenty of Nazis and tankies on fedi. Chances are you’re using software written by hardcore tankies (Lemmy devs). Not everyone is “in the know”. They just follow their brands and influencers. And most don’t really care, they don’t engage too much, just retweet and like the latest football results or whatever the outrage algo puts in their feed. Most people don’t think deep thoughts about their social media platform.

Been watching PWHL - it’s free on Youtube! It’s amazingly good hockey and broadcasting is generally really well produced as well. I’d love to see the league grow and for that they need money. Wish there was a way to do that without dropping into the dirty pit dubious bedfellows that the NHL keeps, but unfortunately I think that might be a hard ask at this point.

Tell her to stop. Then cease all contact. No need to be respectful. It’s not a situation that needs fine granularity.

You are the adult in this and it’s always going to be your responsibility to do the right thing. So act like a responsible adult.

this is potentially the last social identity you have to create.

…as long as you stay centralized on the central BlueSky instance. Once you move out to a (potential, future) federated server, that identity (and it’s super duper verification) doesn’t follow you.

Nylander is the only one that doesn’t turn into a pumpkin every year

Flashback to 2019 with Don Cherry ranting about “soft Swede”.

The thing is, if Leafs ever make it to final, or god forbid win the cup, the Toronto media is going to be absolutely fucking insufferable for the next 50 years. And we can’t have that.

So I’m sorry. You can’t win.
But I do feel for you fans though.

Also, you can’t easily/fast search in voice data and you end up implementing all kinds of weird and costly workarounds like AI transcription in order to make voice meetings searchable. Voice is great for telling stories around camp fire, but it’s awful way to convey and store information in a online forum.

Short answer: No
Long answer: Nooooooooooooooo

Lemmy’s core values of decentralization, privacy, and user autonomy

I’m sorry, but is privacy really one of Lemmy’s core values? Because fediverse has no real privacy features (that I know of), in fact, federation and ActivityPub makes privacy features pretty hard to implement. Could you please elaborate and link to the source of this?

Dude. Don’t keep the bong so close to your keyboard.

100% Mullvad

https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/