I still like CEEs Banana Scales (calipers)
Darkassassin07
joined 2 years ago
? That's a bizarre response.
No one here is trying to fleece you. People are suggesting ways to run your own instance as that's the major difference between Reddit and Lemmy; you're not obligated to use someone else's hardware or be subject to their rules, you can setup your own systems and have a bit more freedom. Reddit doesn't give you that option.
Your account is subject to the rules of the instance it was created on, as well as the rules of each community you're interacting with. If you run afoul of the admins for your instance, you can be banned, losing access to that account completely.
If you were to run your own instance; no single admin could ban your entire account if you pissed them off. You can still be blocked from communities or entire instances if you don't play nicely with others, but you won't lose the account so you can still use it in other instances/communities.
For most people this isn't really necessary; but lemmy also has a pretty large number of tech nerds that like to self-host our own services, so you'll get quite a bit of 'heres how you can do it yourself' type responses.
Unlike reddit, you can just setup your own space on your own hardware completely under your own control, if you don't like what's available.
It was all positive until the guy below me came in throwing insults. Then people started piling downvotes on both....
You're not required to run your own instance on your own hardware; you've just got to find an existing instance with an admin team you're comfortable with, create your community there and recruit moderators just like you would on Reddit.
Flooded farmland, provided 0 help to the wildfires, and now there's less water reserve for the actual agricultural season...
Genius.
Just knowing who those two people are requires education and we can't have that.
Plus the sexual references? Double whammy; Ban approved.
From the linked article:
The Take It Down Act is an overbroad, poorly drafted bill that would create a powerful system to pressure removal of internet posts, with essentially no safeguards. While the bill is meant to address a serious problem—the distribution of non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII)—the notice-and-takedown system it creates is an open invitation for powerful people to pressure websites into removing content they dislike. There are no penalties for applying very broad, or even farcical definitions of what constitutes NCII, and then demanding that it be removed.
It would mean Trump and anyone else could demand the removal of pretty much any image that features them; with legal penalties for not immediately complying.
Think DMCA takedowns for youtube videos, but against every image on every platform available in the US. The platform has to comply, remove the flagged content, and let the courts sort out whether it should go back up.
Sounds about right.
It may inflate the numbers for now, but overall I think it's just going to have a negative impact. I may have decided to play with it at somepoint, I'm just somewhere between disinterested and distrusting of the tech. Now that it's been shoved down my throat though, I adamantly REFUSE to touch Gemini. Installing it on my devices and giving it all my data without consent is absurd overreach and should be a felony.
Gotta support local businesses y'know?
The problem is that the federal government is taking a literal chainsaw to critical life saving programs like disability, social insurance, and USAID, while ignoring expenses like maintaining golf courses that are purely a luxury.
You've got federal funds available to invest in fertilizing the grass so people can be entertained; but can't possibly continue to keep people alive and off the streets??
Hundreds of thousands of federal employees have lost their jobs, with many panicking not knowing where their next meal will come from. Millions of people worldwide have been cut off from food, water, and medical supplies that the US had promised to provide (whether actually supplying the goods or providing transport/protection). These people WILL die because of this; but the putting greens are looking nicer than ever!