Water is still pretty cheap.

Agreed, I think we should very cautiously federate, while keeping in mind that they will inevitably pull the rug.

In this case, I would argue MimicJar’s point (Edit: Shit, I didn’t notice who I’m talking to. Well, you make good points I guess, lmao), and say that even if we were to defederate with the large instance, we’re still no worse off than if we had never federated in the first place - in fact, we’d likely be better off, since any anti-nazi users in your scenario would know where to find us.

The way I look at it is like, if Reddit were part of the Fediverse, they would’ve dominated in much the same way as Threads intends to. But the moment they even started pulling sketchy tactics, we could’ve jumped to other instances.

I mean, that’s essentially what I did anyway, but with no clearly defined alternative, not everyone knows about the Fediverse, whereas they would’ve had that option if Reddit was federated. Plus, in theory, I’d still be able to view and interact with Reddit content from my instance, at least until they separate entirely - at which point (again) I would have the choice.

I personally believe that, given the choice, many people would decide to support smaller federated instances over corporate monoliths. Not most, but many.

My take is that if the Fediverse can be destroyed simply by a particular instance being too popular, then maybe that’s a problem with the Fediverse - not that instance.

A bleak view, but I certainly can’t blame you for holding it.

I don’t believe it’s a waste of resources to research these things, but it gets old seeing the same headline every month for decades on end. At this point, if it isn’t an actionable process, don’t bother wasting my time with an article.

The question to always ask with these articles is: Is this process prohibitively expensive, or does the process output more CO2 overall than you input? It’s always one of the two.

Regarding mind-reading: OP should also keep in mind that these people are probably thinking the exact same thing - shyness often comes off as disinterest.

Think of how you would like them to reach out to you, and then do that.

And definitely agree on therapy. Recently went to therapy myself for something similar, and it does help.

While I wouldn’t put it past any company to do this, the theory is that you have a “wake word” that is listened for locally (ie, “Hey Google” etc).
Then, once that triggers locally, then any audio after that point is recorded and delivered to our corporate overlords.

That said, how well this works in practice, or how different companies handle this may vary.

Just sounds like a website to me. Maybe the distinction you’re looking for is that it sounds more like a “Web 1.0” style website, before we opened the floodgates on user-generated content.

Nothing Forever got a 14 day ban for generating this standup routine:

“There’s like 50 people here and no one is laughing. Anyone have any suggestions? I’m thinking about doing a bit about how being transgender is actually a mental illness. Or how all liberals are secretly gay and want to impose their will on everyone. Or something about how transgender people are ruining the fabric of society. But no one is laughing, so I’m going to stop. Thanks for coming out tonight. See you next time. Where’d everybody go?”

As for Infinite Steam, the only references to the banned clip seem to be on Reddit - and so a massive pain in the ass to access - but I remember the clip in question had Seymour saying something like “Oh no, I burned the Jews!”

I wonder if they’ve learned anything from the infamous Nothing Forever incident, or the infamous Infinite Steam incident, or any of the other various incidents.

Not me - I’m learning from Steve’s mistake.

The way I learned it is that blue ones make it run faster, green ones save energy, and red ones give a 4% bonus to production.

As a non-dad that loves dad jokes, I’m going to make liberal use of this one.

Yeah, we regularly had issues with our cows jumping the fence. Was annoying, but also really impressive at the same time.

Surely this won’t block lots of legitimate users, while simultaneously being trivially easy to bypass by submitting a picture of literally anyone.

Same. 10 minutes would be fine, compared to not noticing I’ve been messaged until the next day.

Ouch, that sounds like a painful way to live. I’m sorry to hear that.

Yeah, from my understanding, the chip itself is about the same size as a CPU chip.