Oh look it’s yet another “why servers?” whine yelp disguised as a request for development,

Anyway, summer is hot here in the best hemisphere. News at eleven.

Have you checked how muh software do you use that is enabled by capitalism?

True!

On my end, I barely get any German, but I feel reminded I’m alive every time I see an ich_iel. I feel like if I learned German the charm would be lost…

You made me snort what fortunately was only tea and not a carbonated drink! XD

…backup servers? 👀

It’s in everyone’s best interest for AI content to be honestly declared.

May i introduce you to the concept of corporations? It’s a frshly new thing from latest millennium, dunno if you’ve heard of it.

Assuming it’s right.

99% of the time it’s hallucinating, inventing two extra authors for the text (each with six fingers), misattributing a quote to at least one of them, and n otoriously missing the point of the article in favour of developing a more click-baity summary.

I find it sus that they say 100% of the proceedings will be donated. I’m wondering if a fair part of this is an attempt to clear their image after they delivered environmental activists over to monarchical and corporate interests in the EU.

¿Por qué no los dos?

Posting only the canonical YT link doesn’t really help the people who are on mobile and thus have less opportunity to install or use protection. Also, people who just copy-paste a YT link blindly are also likely to copy the tracker codes. Just about every YT link I’ve seen shared everywhere has trackers such as ?si=.

Even more important then to get them deessentialized if they’re already feeling like leaving.

This is already impacting futurology.today - one of the Mods is British, and because of this law doesn’t feel comfortable continuing. As they have back-end expertise with hosting, if they go, we may have to shut down the whole site.

Its good news that they are merely a mod and not an admin / op, then! That’s why documenting and transfer of knowledge is important! If they don’t feel capable of dealing with a stupid law, they should make themselves unnecessary to your community ASAP! Have them prepare to step down from the role by documenting everything that a replacement needs to be able to do, then as soon as another mod can test that the documentation works, derole them if that’s what they want.

It’s not really that complicated. In fact, it’s literally by design easier than the old 90’s “everyone in their own forum” where you literally had to sign up to each and every place to have a voice or a vote; now, you only need to sign-up to at best one instance.

In fact, I’d say much of the complains about complexity we see nowadays are part of the general appeal to anti-intellectualism that runs rampant on the modern internet. Most things should not be “fire and forget” for good reason, and the social internet, much like driving a car let alone a truck, is a good example why. It’s curious in that sense that you quote this:

As the saying goes, “Society can only move as fast as its slowest member.”

Before mentioning I’ve ever heard this anywhere where there’s decent people, so perhaps it’s something that’s told in KKK circles or the like. Like, this is so sorely and patently false it feels like an attempt at trolling. Society moves past the “slow” members and throws them under the proverbial progress bus all the fucking time. That’s what capitalism, collonnialism and consumerism is all about. A good society has to be slow, because it has to observe, think, evaluate and teach.

There are severe pain points still on the general fediverse experience and in some service / instance particulars. You make good point in mentioning a few of them such as the lack of unified onboarding, better guides (technical and visual) and quite definitively the discoverability problem. But I’d frown at some of the proposed solutions like “smart algorithms”