Let’s see how this works out. Banning alcohol, cigarettes and other stuff works half of the time, so it seems healthy to me to try and block SoMe including jutub
What makes people set up instances? There’s no money involved. Even selling your instance data to AI companies are difficult as they could easily just set up their own and federate.
My guess would be that ideology would be one reason to set one up.
Theres also less competition, so there’s less repercussions for bans / dysfunctional mod behaviour.
Given the opportunity, humans tend to want echo chambers rather than real discussions.
Note: These are some of my thoughts on this, and none are based on facts.
The deal is EU spends more money buying from the us (rather than using the free maket), and the us puts 15% tariffs on most, and 50% on some.
To me that’s a one sided deal that is explained by “it could have been worse“. Maybe it could, but maybe sending trump home with no deal and a promise of retaliation could have made for a real negotiation.
He is literally doing the same thing he explains in his book. The only way to counter is to do the same.
It’s predictive text