EunieIsTheBus

Let me guess: You are an American with no clue about Geography / foreign politics?

1. Belarus isn't in the EU. Its position doesn't matter, independent from which side they are on.

2. Belarus is part of the big grey blob in the east of the map (alongside Ukraine and Russia). So the map doesn't state anything about Belarus' opinion on the topic.

3. In case you thought the dark green blob in central Europe is Belarus: those are Germany and Poland.

Seriously? A red armband with a white circle and a black symbol on it? Even a dick pick would be a better choice for a company logo

You're joking right?

Sounds like the same issues as with Signal

What you are describing is basically Mastodon

No. Mastodon and twitter are short message services. Lemmy and reddit are content aggregators.

The moment you aggregate communities across instances you remove the ability to moderate them. Because maybe a hexbear mod wants to remove all mention of the Uyghur people, an ml mod wants to remove all mention of genocide against them, and a zip mod wants to remove all the comments about why genocide is good in a thread about god damned Bluey. Do they all get to delete everything across every instance? Do you start having different views of the same community depending on your home instance?

Instance A also cannot moderate the content of Instance B. Your argument is therefore invalid. The point of federation is that instances can agree on a common set of rules and values or not. In that case they defederate from each other. However, this doesn't work in practice as communities are centralized. Obviously, most of us agree that lemmy.ml is a problem but we don't federate just because they 'own' the instance.

What I mean is that a subset of all Linux communities agrees on a common set of rules and forms a community of communities. Content of all communities is shared with everyone who subscribes to one of the communities. Every community moderates its own content. If one community decides to have stricter rules than the others it can defederate. Basically just like on the level of instances.

What stops us to just defederate from lemmy.ml is that the community is hosted there and all members are linked to that one point of failure.

The problem with this reasoning is that many of the popular communities are actually on lemmy.ml, and they're not so easy to replace. I mean, in terms of content and engagement lemmy is already a pretty small place as it is.

I think this is a core problem of lemmy as it is right now. This place is meant to be federated and decentralized. Instead it is heavily centralized as communities lie on one instance. What one needs should be federated communities as well. Like say c/linux@lemmy.world is the same as c/linux@someotherinstance.com. this way one could subscribe to communities on your home instance and if the home instance defederates from one other instance the community can defederate from the community on that instance without completely breaking apart

Note that the proposal was sent by fax

Porn sites are feeling discredited by comparing them to x-formerly-known-as-twitter.com

Yes. Basically, both work similar but an MLM is an actual business while a pyramid scheme just fakes to be one.

Take Tupperware for instance. Independent of its structure as a customer you get a real product / service. There is an actual transaction between a customer and a company (reseller). A customer does not need to be part of the MLM.

In a pyramid scheme the money comes directly and only from its participants. It just redistributes it. As long as the scheme grows this works until it eventually collapses.

Maybe get a girlfriend that isn't a brain washed spy? \s

Just use a different app then? You don't need to come up with some high tech solution. She won't use that anyway. But something simple like signal should be sufficient.