Wait... is lemmy.ml really the flagship instance? I thought that was lemmy.world.
Here's how I see it: an instance becomes bullshit, all the rest of the instances defederate from them. It has happened in the past, it will keep happening in the future. Lemmy self-corrects.
And if it doesn't, welp, it will go the way of Slashdot, Digg and Reddit. I'd be okay with that.
And am I supposed to let other people be subject to that, too? Let people like that drag down Lemmy as a whole? Shouldn’t I have a nice and welcoming place on the internet for me and my friends?
It's.... Lemmy. One instance does not represent all of it. Move to a friendlier instance. That's the beauty of the fediverse.
And in the end, lemmy.ml, like many other instances, are run by its owners, technically for the fun of it. They're absorbing the cost. Not us. They can do whatever they want with their little toy server.
Look, I'm not defending them. They suck. I'm just saying that the internet is vast. Why focus of one small corner of it? Again, that's like trying to change 4chan. Or moving to a tornado area and trying to get rid of the tornadoes.
Silly. The internet is full of echo chambers. Just move on. If an instance is run by people you can't reason with, why hang out there? Will you try and change 4chan too?
I got out of crypto stuff long ago. But I was so paranoid with losing wallet keys that I'd put them everywhere in chunks, like a medieval quartered body spread all over Scotland.
Those trees from back then were different species of trees.
So, sure, mammals will survive, just like they survived the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs. But we humans were not those mammals. And we won't be the mammals that survive our self-inflicted apocalypse.
The day the MPAA and the RIAA sued fans for tens of thousands of dollars for pirating content that was still generating millions, is the day I said I would never, ever, pay for their content again, and pirate it guilty-free.
N-natural?
Plus there are many, many, many, many use cases for a computer. Even the ones you don't even think about, like bird sighting.