LostCause

Wait, you are trans and in Russia? That seems like reason enough to flee, I wouldn‘t wait until they become aware enough of you to strip your citizenship. Maybe Finland would be ok: https://en.seta.fi/human-rights-support/asylum-for-the-lgbt-and-activists/

Good luck, I hope you will be safe.

Wow yeah the government, judging by your writing style even the US one, which side are they again on? Corporations or people (if they even distinguish)?
Let‘s check: https://www.vox.com/2014/4/18/5624310/martin-gilens-testing-theories-of-american-politics-explained

Or as they put it, "economic elites and organized interest groups play a substantial part in affecting public policy, but the general public has little or no independent influence."

The only reason they‘d have the fediverse on their radar is banning it in favour for some platform that lobbied them, like say Meta.

Anyway, luckily this is a global and decentralised thing and I for one like not waiting around for a government to think, decide and do anything and everything ever for me. I‘d rather find an instance admin who doesn‘t sell out at the first sign of a dollar.

If that takes me spinning up my own instances to contribute to that and have at least one place which doesn‘t sell out, I guess I will.

I hope people, especially instance owners and devs, listen to this warning.

I don‘t know about economics, but this is my entry to research:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=0Xa7Dp3-eYA

And cucumber prices went up more than 50% for me in the last 2 years alone, so maybe you‘re onto something.

No, one thing is the use cases of some to bypass laws.

The other thing is, there will always be people to fall for all kinds of scams, cults, hypes, pyramid schemes so many are still alive as well, there is people out there buying sugar pills and energy healing and Reddit gold.

Monero

Facebook already went through enshittification and should be dead but somehow it isn’t, it just survives off boomers and conspiracy theorists or something.

Similar to how Reddit will survive even if it‘s all just bots talking to each other and reposting into infinity.

Weird to think some text or image I contributed could be reposted long after my death and written about by AI bots.

My main reason to rush was that I felt disgusted any time I opened it, because I kept seeing comments from people who didn‘t give a fuck and supported spez. I’m used to feeling like shit and doom when browsing Reddit, but disgust was a new one.

So I pulled the plug early and overall, I feel good here now, I can share in some negative news about Reddit which makes me feel less alone and also participate in new and growing communities, it‘s awesome.

Only thing I miss is the app, Apollo was a wonderful app and you could tell a labor of love, RIP. I can see why you might want to use it till its last day.

I used Apollo until roughly a week ago or so when I started to detach from Reddit. Now it‘s since been uninstalled.

He seems way too nice to sue over that, his last posts alone are so open and transparent and self-reflective and so on. He‘ll probably be the bigger person and move on. It‘s mostly vindictive tiny ego people like billionaires who sue over those kind of things.

Though if he did sue, good for him and would be entirely justified in my eyes, they really did him dirty and spread all sorts of lies!

Hoping it‘s true, but I‘ll wait with congratulations until I see some proof.

Anyway, criminals or whatnot, is a fine line anyway and subjective. To me spez is the criminal right now, it‘s just that there isn‘t a crime for "destruction of communities" and if there were there‘d be an exception for rich people.

Pretty sure most of the more anarchist mods got pushed out sometime after the whole Fox News debacle already and since then the content has become less spicy too. Watering all that down again, what is even left? "Please master spez I would like to slightly criticise a corporation, am I allowed to do this or is it against the guidelines and duties of moderators?" or what.

Well, it is all for the best, free thinking people will migrate and rebuild, the rest I won‘t miss.