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Ah right,it only shows desktop usage. I remember reading that at some point Antarctica had the highest percentage of Linux users of all continents.

You shouldn’t have left out Antarctica :(

The same thing that has been happening for the past 2 decades.

If Olivia Rafferty here (they only one I defended) is a nazi collaborator, then sure, by your logic, I must be too. And thanks to the 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon, you’re one too.

Congratulations. At this point the term has lost all meaning, and we’re all nazis.

You definitely don’t have to. But if you were actually trying to, let me assure you that equating the reading of a harmless blog post to paying a hotel would not have done the trick.

If you’re fine with supporting a platform that welcomes Nazis with open arms, fine, you do you.

Now you’re basically implying that I’m a Nazi-sympathiser. I find that a cheap tactic and highly offensive.

That’s my issues with these kind of oversimplifications and guilty-by-association-fallacies. Before you know it, everyone is Hitler. I’m not supporting anyone here. I read an article about Spotify on a blog, nobody gained any measurable financial worth from that.

I don’t think we’re going to find a common ground here. Have nice day.

The person who wrote the article we’re supposed to be discussing in here is at least 2 degrees away from the nazis. At what point does it become circlejerk?

The Lemmy instance you’re on is linking to a substack and is collecting donations, but you seem to be fine with that. So I guess the threshold is 3 degrees?

If you have an adblocker, and you’re not visiting any of those nazi sites directly, but do derail a comment section about a totally unrelated article? I say it is, yeah.

Then again, I can be pretty petty about circlejerks.

Ah, that saved me a click. Let’s make it permanent.

So, back to the original question: what makes you think that using public torrent trackers are not representative of the bigger picture?

Yes, obviously not being able to use private stats from private sources narrows the scope, but what makes you think it cannot be extrapolated? Personally, I think that private trackers or usenet would paint the same picture, and niche providers would be too small to make a dent in the stats.

I don’t think it said just 1 specific torrent provider. But even then, as long as it was a decently sized generic torrent provider, what makes you think it would not be representative of the bigger picture?

j/k man, you gotta do what works for you.

BURN THE HERETIC!

Poor fellow didn’t get enough attention, so now he’s trying this way. Block and move on.

You Won’t Believe What Happens Next!!!

Maybe you should add this to the headline, it feels like it’s missing.

As long as they’re federated, they can track your movements. The fediverse doesn’t need Meta to be successful. And if it can somehow gain benefit from it, that will then become a weakness that Meta will exploit.

It’s not a question of if meta will fuck the fediverse over, but how and when. Pre-emptive defederation is the best way to mitigate those effects. You’ve seen their track record, the time of “benefit of the doubt” is long gone.

Gee, I wonder how this will end if lemmy gets to vote.

How would they be more powerful than in the current situation?

Nope, they aren’t as universal as EFI. I think the closest comparable attack vector for “old tech” is a bootsector virus.

Maybe.