I just here for the first time, I find it liberating, almost daring behavior

I think this was the comment that pushed me to actually contribute to lemmy code. Thanks

My perception is you are trying to talk people out of donating to maintain lemmy, while using it yourself?

What does this even have to do with piracy ???

Your information, the data itself, goes through their code to reach most people on lemmy.

There is piracy and then there is talking others out of donating

Why don’t you a pull request and fix it yourself ? If you have the ability to recognize and know what to fix, and if you care, do it!

I know I’m too lazy to help them, what is your excuse ?

I swear, I might just get off the fence and help them myself on unrelated issues, it’s making me that unsettled

But you use the software they make…

Pretty sure it’s an oversight but devs are overworked, really overworked

There are many more important things to fix before this.

But an issue will put it in the todo list

I am a lazy unreliable person. But I find value in what you found and want it fixed.

If you don’t do it, it probably will not get fixed so fast

I think you should also make a GitHub issue too

Most people have limits ; I can see this man finding out he has a very small moral code he cannot ignore.

Or he simply lost a bureaucratic turf war. There is a lot of reorganization going on , lots of power struggles. And he decided to whitewash and reinvent himself. Even if this guy is legitimate, there will be many of the later later

I’m clueless about the discussions about this: but my concern is that, over time (years) most user activity will be on a handful of well managed instances. Smaller instances will come and go.

Seems the working fediverse needs server teams that are not too big or small.

I feel gloomy thinking this will be a bottleneck for diversity, expansion and growth on lemmy.

The current ftc doing something constructive?

Most likely situation is that this will not happen now, or years from now

It will take a generation at least to cleanse but the reputational damage has been done.

Several generations, probably, hundreds of years, at least. A minority of Jews tore up something that cannot be regenerated easily, while true antisemitism lives on for as long as Christianity exists.

Cars, roads, and car culture are inflicting harm though, even if it’s seen as a neutral tool by many

I think this would rely on community activism; in America today most activism is internet based, and not neighborhood oriented.

So, I think this has happened before, but not since the collapse of local community politics in the 1980s; but someone more knowledgeable of history could probably find examples from the 1970s and 1960s or earlier.

it’s a great idea and definitely could be used as a stop gap; and I hope to see it used later as community activism gets a reboot later.

But if it can work before then, that would be great

I personally like the fact a lot of people are using AI to learn fundamentals, but only because this improves employment of real coders.

It’s also going to harm many predatory startups too, run by idiots with deep pockets. It’s better to handicap them this way than they actually have scalable stuff which works in the real world.

Most of the programming job cuts this year are untreated to AI, it’s another bubble that is bursting. But the above is creating another bubble that will burst in a year or so, and those who can code will see improved salaries, in my opinion

This is Darwinism in action

I stand up for elections that are accurate and fair. If you look at my bio it’s my central belief in what needs to be done in American politics.

I cannot progress any leftest beliefs without accurate elections. So I’m ok if fair elections promote things I dislike very much. But they must be accurately counted.

I think I would respect many democrats more if they shared the same belief; but over the last few years I have become convinced that to be a card carrying Democratic Party member, one must be willing to turn a blind eye to how this country is not very democratic.

So yes, while democrats are better in many ways than republicans, both are harmful

Love it