As someone who has managed a website: This is utter bullshit.

A website is someones private property and the organization is purely hierarchical in nature. It goes owner > admin > moderator > user and each one has control over the others.

The components to host a site (a server, hard drives, etc.) cost money. The connection to the internet costs money. The physical location costs money to exist in.

That private property still lives in a physical location and must abide by local laws. The laws differ based on the physical location, but there are laws they must abide by, all the same.

Hell, to even connect to a website I have to pass data over numerous different pieces of private property on the way to the site I want. Each step potentially cataloging the data I sent along the way, if the data is unencrypted. Even certificates which allow us to pass encrypted data to and from a site come from centralized groups called Certificate Authorities.

When someone bans you, what options do you even realistically have other than getting your own private property and spinning up your own site? Usually arguing about a ban goes badly.

I want some of whatever you’re smoking. Websites are the complete opposite of open and community operated. Computers were never built for democracy.

No shit, they love that people are upset about it. That’s why she did it. To exercise and exert power over the situation, to show they don’t have to answer anyone’s questions. They will do what they plan to do anyway.

When they do things like this they are expressing power and the intent is to get people upset but unable to do anything. They want to show us they can get away with it. Period.

They treat it like most people treat a EULA.

Kind of an antagonistic response for what was actually a fairly neutral statement. Thanks for making it clear you’re not here with good faith intentions, I guess.

but protesting is just how you communicate that there are numbers to make it safe to resist

An important and oft overlooked point about protest, messaging about the power and safety of numbers.

At least parallel systems on a smaller scale, I guess.

Everything starts small, my friend. A lot of leaders don’t become leaders because they want to be, but because they were already putting in the work. You may find yourself in such a position someday, out of sheer necessity and due to the fact that you were laying the groundwork for future efforts. Don’t sell your efforts short, small things add up.

I just want to say if you are indeed a Chinese person, thank you for sharing your unique experience with folks from the west. I can’t really tell for sure based on your post history whether you truly are or not, so for the moment, I’ll take you at your word.

I do want to say that I deeply agree with this statement from your comment history:

I’m saying that all new energy electric vehicles are industrial waste.

Because yes, we could be doing so much better for the environment with bicycles and public transit such as buses and trains. The lie of cars is that they offer a freedom to go where you want when you want, but in large cities, that lie is shown for what it is, because when all the cars are on the roads at the same time, traffic happens and nobody gets to go anywhere they want at the time they want.

The largest worldwide protests in history (at the time) happened on February 15th, 2003, to try to prevent the War in Iraq from happening.

The war happened anyway. Take that for what it’s worth.

(We even have JD Vance saying Europe didn’t do enough to stop the war, as if the giant protests weren’t enough)

Stop protesting and start building parallel systems we can rely on when we all need to General Strike, which is coming quite quickly. We will need systems to feed, water, clothe, house, and in general care for one another during a nationwide general strike. While people aren’t wrong that being armed will probably be a necessary part of that, in the USA, that’s the only part people seem to focus on, forgetting that you cannot eat bullets.

Well, if Trump manages to tank the dollar as a reserve currency and we experience hyperinflation (fairly likely at this point), you’ll have every opportunity to go back to a barter system because those IOUs will be effectively worthless.

Start growing a community garden today.

You gotta be careful though, if you get inside the car too quickly, the smell will follow you.

She might wonder why you’re meandering outside the car too long.

So far, EU OS is a Proof-of-Concept for the deployment of a Fedora-based Linux operating system with a KDE Plasma desktop environment and bootable container technology in a typical public sector organisation. Other organisations with similar requirements or less strict requirements may also learn from this Proof-of-Concept.

Biden literally appointed the worst AG in history as a consolation prize for being denied a Supreme Court seat.

Merrick Garland was a Republican, as a reminder.

Maybe, just maybe, he could have put someone with an actual pair of balls in that position.

Is appointing an Attorney General that does their fucking job called “influencing” the DOJ? I don’t think so.

The Democrats at so many steps helped all this happen. The endless funneling of money into police and ICE, for instance. Obama appointing Tom Homan to ICE for another. Yet we still have jackasses who will deny to the end of time that these fucking milquetoast liberals had anything to do with it even though they paved the fucking road to hell with their good intentions.

Clean copies of GOG games can be hash-checked. The only pirated games I really fuck with are GOG.

Although I wouldn’t be too worried even if I did because I’m in Linux, and anything I did would be sandboxed and closed off from the rest of the system since it’s running in a compatibility layer.

Boom boom
Acka lacka lacka
boom boom

Open the door, climb up the tree
Everybody dance the bumblebee

Oh I don’t have anything particularly interesting to add. It’s just that in Inferno he put a lot of people in hell who were real people he had beef with. That’s just petty.

Not just making himself the main character, chosen by God, to find his lost love in Heaven, but also to be like “oh and for sure all these people I don’t like totally end up in hell, too.”

He even compares himself to the poet Virgil by having Virgil lead him through hell. It’s definitely a power fantasy and the biggest “pick me” of all time with God being the being Dante wants to “pick him.”

I almost spit out my fucking coffee laughing.

If you can’t laugh at how fucking stupid and absurd the world is, how can you even stay sane?

Dante was such a petty little bitch.

You should probably talk to the devs, as I’m pretty sure this is just how Lemmy works. It’s not very format-friendly, on any instance. But then I think they want to center text as more important than images/video.

Also, storage space is expensive, so I think they’re trying to minimize impact to admins who have a bunch of throwaway media uploaded to their servers to be viewed once and then never again.