Can’t believe they missed out on the glorious days where to make your product sound futuristic you just stuck the number 2000 somewhere in its name

Wasn’t 98 the precursor to ME? I thought 2000 was the server version (or something like that)?

Yeah, I’d say it’s the best least horrible it’s ever been

I think that’s a deliberate decision, one of the benefits being that a new server doesn’t destroy itself by immediately trying to download the entire history of the fediverse!

it doesn’t pull in all the content unless someone subscribes

I think that’s how Lemmy works too

I think it’s an alternative way to access the same content, so probably exactly the same number of people you do and do not like

You can save posts, “commenting so I remember” is just as irrelevant here as it was on reddit!

That’s missing the point though: if something isn’t completely private then it has the chance of going public. Too many services pretend to be more private than they really are by using terms like “private message” when all they’re really offering is a relatively small barrier to seeing your data, especially if anyone can set up their own instance.

This is one of the worst quality videos I’ve watched til the end. Just about enough pixels to make out that I’m looking at some cars, but whoever was recording must have been as drunk as whoever was driving because they couldn’t even point the camera at the car half the time!

In Ancient Greece maybe, was this still the opinion during the Renaissance?

Different kinds of racists. They’re not all hardcore white supremacist types, plenty of otherwise-normal people have prejudices against specific groups for being lazy, smelly, deviant, whatever.

…is that it can be picked up and continued by anyone rather than lost forever, right?

Yes and no. Games (all software, really) can be made slick and efficient, it just takes more time than most companies are willing to spend because they get their return even if its buggy and slow.

Now I feel a dumbass for wasting two months of my life on it

Did you have fun? Because if you did (without actively damaging your life) then it wasn’t time wasted even if you wouldn’t ever go back!

People do that everywhere, the only difference is the laws that cover what can be done with that data

ISPs have every motive to sell your browsing data and they do

That sounds very illegal under the GDPR

The Guardian used to be notorious for spelling mistakes so it’s jokingly referred to as the Grauniad

So it does kind of fit in with the other definitions: download is from the wider internet down to your local device, upload is from your local device up to the wider internet, so sideload is just moving something from somewhere local to somewhere else local. I imagine sideload wasn’t generally used before because we’d just say “copy/install a file” or similar, and its usage now comes from it being a shorthand for the slightly convoluted process required on mobile devices.

Unlikely that any of us can answer this question properly unless we happen to know detailed laws for every country in the world. If we want a real answer we can trust then we’d need a statement from someone like the EFF otherwise our “licence” is barely more than one of those chain-letter comments saying “I do not give Facebook the right to do X”.

See Wikipedia