Dang we really have grown.

Not always, but I try to add features to it quickly that get added to lemmy.

People did improve society, they made Matrix and XMPP.

The seatbelts already exist, you just need to use them.

Obligatory imperial troop copypasta:

You see american choppers in the bright blue sky, hundreds and hundreds of screaming american soldiers drop from it, you look across the field and see the tanks rolling in. You hear a loud explosion and realise that the shrine you have protected for thousands of years with tooth and nail is destroyed by the empire, you come to the realisation that this is very probably the end of your people who’ve struggled to survive all these centuries.You realise that very soon there is going to be a river of blood of your people here; white phosphorus and depleted uranium will be shot very soon, deforming babies for decades to come, and millions of your people are gonna be killed. Your millennia old language and religion will be wiped out, you’re very likely the last of your kind.

Suddenly, an American soldier kicks you down, puts his foot on your neck and aims his standard ar-15 on the side of your head all while screaming; you realise you’re gonna die, and you won’t have to see the destruction of your community that you fostered so carefully all these centuries for.

Just before he pulls the trigger, you think to yourself, “To be fair to him, he probably had a low GPA in highschool and didnt have a health-care, those are notoriously hard to get in America”.

His delivery of that line makes the terminator so terrifying.

The alien has 4 fingers, and writes base 4 as “base 10”. It’s basically just a translation problem.

The pirates innovated and made content available long before the corporations did.

Before streaming services took off, it was the only way to get movies and music (besides some IRC rooms). There were even a few golden years where movies would get leaked to torrents in full quality, before the theatrical release.

Music too was easier to find on napster, limewire, and torrents, than your local music store.

Very relevant video:

Israelis speak candidly to reporter about Palestinians.

Albert Einstein

PoS doesn’t use any more electricity than it takes to write to a hard drive, which is minimal, and its also not a “race” in the same way PoW is for solving an increasingly difficult problem.

I like this one the best.

This is completely false. jgrim has never opened up a single issue or PR in lemmy, and we certainly wouldn’t refuse any of either. These things are easily verifiable by anyone who wants to look, its all out in the open.

If you’re a lawyer then, you should advise ppl running servers, and also chime in on that thread.

I’ve been tagged here, so to answer some of the questions I saw below:

We already have a way to permanently delete / overwrite your comments when you delete your account. That’s been done for a long time., and is easily visible in lemmy-UI when you go to delete your account.

We do federate that removal, but there’s nothing that stops a malicious server from ignoring that request. Activitypub is ultimately like email; there is no unsend email button.

That ticket is more about image removals, which gets tricky. We recently added a table that makes sure to attach image uploads to the local user, and now what’s needed is to build out an interface for handling those also, in addition to handling the removals properly. Issue for that is here.

Data privacy will always be an ongoing issue, and we have to handle new problems as they arise. That’s nothing new for us.

The main issue in that ticket is that there are 2-4 of us devs working on software that is now used by over 40k ppl daily, and we’re spread extremely thin. So my personal patience for people making demands, while refusing to do anything to help out themselves, is very thin. We are not a multi-million dollar corporation with hundreds of developers. If someone wants a feature that we don’t have time to work on atm, they can help out by adding it.

I think maltfield is well-intentioned, but they’ve also shown no interest in helping out with any of these GDPR-related requests. We have no legal expertise about the GDPR, and lemmy is not european software, it’s international software.

Countries without FPTP aren’t exempt from any of this problem. Australia and Japan for example use different voting systems, and far-right governments and parties are and have been on the rise there also.

Not FOSS unfortunately.

No probs!

No probs!

Ya sure: https://join-lemmy.org/donate

Could you open up an issue on the jerboa github? Thx