How often does "a bunch of non-devs flock to a half-baked community FOSS project and suddenly gain a bunch of devs" actually play out?
The one reasonable possibility is that they might pick up a designer or two, but how many community FOSS projects seriously consider non-code or non-art contributions? Because based on the FOSS software I've used, it's a vanishingly small number.
Coders over-value code, and under-value everything else.
We've spent a century+ pretending carbon pollution has no cost, and the entire history of capitalism -- if not our species -- pretending all other pollutions had no cost right up until that cost was undeniable.
So, not surprising that we're treating CO2 the exact same way. Only this time around, the polluters realized they could get ahead of the issue and convince enough of the general population that carbon pollution is harmless to prevent it from becoming publicly undeniable.
The system working as they intend.
I think much of it comes from "futurologists" spending too much time smelling each others' farts. These AI guys think so very much of themselves.
Being trans, gay, understanding of the world, or empathetic is what they're trying to "save the children" from, in that order of priorities.
It's really hard to tell without more signage from that particular "protest", but October seemed to be a month where the "Save the Children Convoy" was harassing the city of Ottawa. They're a group of loonies who believe that queer folks are pedophiles, actual pedophiles are sacrosanct community leaders, and that flouride and 5g are mind control, and that everything fascists want to ban is child abuse.
So.... Could be related to that.
many forms of Christianity operate as, and have morphed into, cults.
A religion is just a cult that's socially accepted, and vice versa.
What do you mean? Soap operas can have excellent representation!
Passions had the best "doll brought to life by a hag" represented on TV ever!
See, the thing is, the corporations believe they already own our money, so not giving it to them when they demand is the real injury, not us downloading a game or a movie. All the product does is tell them which internal bounty hunter to credit with the safe capture and return of what was already theirs.
If that's the case, I'd say the new mod did get the memo about Lemmy, and about the fediverse at large, and actually understood the legal risks involved in hosting this community.
Federation works by receiving and locally storing content from remote instances, which means any instance based in the USA is going to assume some significant legal risks by not banning this community.
It's not that they're refusing to let people look through a window into another, remote host. It's that they're refusing to host and serve that content from their own website.
"I trust these guys to not sell my data because they've only sold me data over there" is a hell of a take.
Someone has their identity tied up in this for some reason
"Futurologist" is a self-appointed honorific that people who fancy themselves "deep thinkers" while thinking of nothing more deeply than how deep they are. It's like declaring oneself an "intellectual".