To scare them? Windows.

It’s the absolute best way to make someone become a Linux user for life.:-)

We just gotta go out there and give it 10000000000% guys!

(Looks at normal) - who the hell would want to be like that!? We getchu fam, you are loved here among us weirdos:-P.

(The original site, vectorbelly, is not loading for me, but fortunately I found this backup)

I was gonna go with a meme like “shit, they’re onto us!”… except who are we kidding, cats literally would not care.

So instead I’ll go with this:

I am once again asking you… :-P

Whelp, guess I’m not getting any work done today then:-|

Why do alternative facts always gotta show up uninvited to the party? 🥳

TIL, 255 is the new 1.

Aka -1 >> 1 : TRUE

The linked post explains:

A Lemmy.World user informed us about an instance we are federated with that was hosting very illegal content a while back. This was a result of an attack more than a year ago, and said content federated to many other instances, which made local copies of the material. Unfortunately, when this material was taken down at the source, that action did not federate to all linked instances, meaning that there are still some instances showing this material.

Once we were made aware of this, we realized that this was likely not the only occurrence, so we started looking for other instances where this content may also still exist. We have identified more than 50 affected instances and already reached out to many of them to inform them about this content to have it taken down.

It seems that it is quite difficult for instance admins to do things like permanently remove posts locally which have already been removed by a mod somewhere else. Ironically, by intentionally making it difficult to access, its inaccessibility afterwards makes it difficult to… uh… access, e.g. to delete it, very much a design flaw.

Absolutely.

Google used to be better as well. And Reddit. And… well, enshittification affects everything, not just tech, but printers and food containing micro plastics and everything else we can buy.:-(

Are you sure that you don’t already know it by heart?

I thought for sure you must have misread it, but yeah it’s two points UP.

The metrics here are presumably so narrow and incomplete for 2025 as to be absolute misinformation. Relevant quote:

According to the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, there were 49 journalist arrests in 2024 compared to only 15 in 2023.

And zero recorded for 2025 so far, according to that page.

They are not - he X/cancelled it.:-P

Don’t confuse not knowing with not caring.

They can choose not to.

Why is it always that guy!?:-P

Isn’t ActivityPub extremely network intensive though? If all you wanted was a single user subscribing to a handful of communities then Lemmy would be inexpensive but to pull from a lot of communities I thought people have said that it can cost a bit of money, time, etc. Also defending against attacks such as CSAM.

Maybe make a distinction then between running a “tiny personal instance with only a few niche community subscriptions” vs. a small instance, either with multiple users or even just one person subscribing to many communities, if that cost would start to become more prohibitive?

Depends - what is their half-life? If it’s less than the rate of eye blinking, then we aren’t even keeping up a stable population!