there is also !demicrosoft@programming.dev

If you want to enforce that, you need to fork it and put a copyleft license on it. This is very rarely done because it’s more work to maintain software than to write it…

They can change future versions to that, not already released ones.

Doesn’t PeerTube already do this? Maybe I am mistaken.

In any case there’s nothing inherently preventing this, just because a platform gets some of its data from other servers instead of its own users, it doesn’t mean it can’t use that data to run a recommendation algorithm.

I don’t want it though. I prefer choosing for myself what sources I want to get information from instead of getting any of it recommended by the platform operator.

works for me

the main thing I want my instance to defederate from is spambot farms, defederating because of political moderation policies is censorship and not moderation

Nah this entire thread is a perfect illustration why US First Amendment standards for free speech are (roughly) good and should be adopted in all countries. This is where it ends when you start to think it’s ok to criminalize “hate speech” or “terrorist propaganda” or “approval of criminal acts”.

What data?

It’s possible there’s something in the firmware or BIOS that transmits some things to Apple; I do not know for sure, but maybe someone else will show up here who knows details about this. Even if that is so, Apple gets significantly less data because anything built into macOS won’t be running.

dammit the bot was faster than even the explainxkcd page creation bot, not to even speak of https://mastodon.xyz/@xkcd :o

Are you sure you will be allowed to drive a manual car in Romania with your American license if you didn’t take the test with a manual car? I live in a different European country and here if you take the test with an automatic car, you are only allowed to drive automatic cars. You should research this.

It’s definitely different from an automatic car and requires more concentration. Once you get used to it, it’s not difficult. I was older than you are now when I learned to drive at all (which I did on a manual car) and managed it anyway.

https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html

https://xkcd.com/1381/

Legal questions can’t be meaningfully answered without a location. But there are many places where there are laws against that and this can be a crime.

IMHO messages from things you’ve signed up to are unlikely to be “spam”. I’ve always understood that word to mainly mean completely unsolicited messages from people you have no previous relationship with at all; though if it’s clearly unwanted it might include some of the former too.

I suspect you already know about Meads v Meads. Paragraph 73 of that provides some clues:

All this is a consequence of the fact gurus proclaim they know secret principles and law, hidden from the public, but binding on the state, courts, and individuals.

Many people like the thought that they know something no one else knows or that at least most people don’t know. Including things about the law.

that may in part be out of consideration to others, most others don’t want to see that… so maybe a bad example…

What would “selling Chrome” even entail? The vast majority of Chrome’s source code is free and open source software, i.e. it has no owners. Does the US government want Google’s developers of the Chromium codebase to work on another company’s payroll instead? Do they want Google to be prohibited from distributing a browser based on the Chromium codebase? Have they given any of this any thought at all?

It would be possible to set up an instance where users could post as guests, ie everyone who did that would appear as the same user, something like anon@lemmychan.social.

It is also likely that such accounts would soon be banned in many places because people will use them to post unwanted posts and comments.

“Mastodon” is probably not doing that, a specific instance might be though?

Thx, fixed