Not for digital data

doing it, obviously. dbzer0 was a former head mod of r/piracy before the api shutdown

I suppose people younger than 20 didn’t experience it.

Still does on each subreddit - everyone sees the same “best” page

That’s how Bitcoin-libertarians describe themselves, too.

This is unironically how every power structure in the entire human society in the entire history of the world works.

Adam Smith wrote about how much he hated landlords because they are feudalism.

I want this too, so I can know which awesome companies should host my stuff.

That sounds like exactly the same thing Reddit does

That’s a separate concern. I will point out it’s the same way we treat alcohol, and that direct messaging with friends apps aren’t banned.

At the same time it was necessary for the federalization to happen in the first place. States wouldn’t sign up if there wasn’t an equal vote per state. It’s like the European Council - you probably wouldn’t get Slovenia to sign up to the EU, if Slovenia got half a vote while Germany got fifty votes. But if the EU progresses farther down the federalization path it will face the same thing where the states become less important and equal representation per state becomes stupid.

Tough problems, man.

it’s hard to know who to vote for if the Democrats and Republicans are both off the table

Since China is making most of the world’s solar panels at an alarming rate, if the majority of people do want to die to climate change then we might have to invade China to make them stop making solar panels.

Refusing to manufacture solar panels because the people living over the whatever refuse to let us mine the whatever would lead to us burning more fossil fuels and killing the planet sooner, and it would even be worse for the people living above the whatever.

Some people are scared of talking about Israel because they can be at great personal risk if caught talking about it. They also might not know how rabid or not rabid the online community they’re posting in will turn out to be.

Which invading aliens are you speaking about? Are you trying to say Mexicans? Are you saying what if Mexicans coming to the US say it’s theirs and they want it back?

Most shit just dissolves in acid, it doesn’t explode.

I’m on a lemmy instance dedicated to copyright infringement. Its already been around for years. You have to get quite big to get the government’s intention. Also the site Myrient was just doing endless copyright infringement for years and shut down because it ran out of money, not because the government caught it.

How does Lemmy decide what to display on my front page? I’m not too familiar with that.

It’s not abstinence culture though?

If the only offence was providing social media things wouldn’t have gotten this far. There’s plenty of evidence Meta has intentionally optimized their system to damage mental health to increase profit.