It’s sorta the other way. Mozilla constantly does stuff like that and backs off when they get called out on it.

Can someone explain this a little more? I’ve avoided both discord and matrix so far.

Interesting. Does this mean Alzheimer’s might come from an ERV?

Thanks. Lemmy’s privacy story is actually kind of bad. Like if you read a post, the instance retains that fact, to support features like “show unread posts”. But that means not only is your posting history public, but your reading history can potentially be exposed.

That’s the main reason I sometimes think of running my own instance. It would receive all the posts from every community without revealing which of them I bothered looking at.

Yes, that should be fairly easy and I sometimes think of doing it.

I’m of the impression that only the origin and destination servers see any given private message, but I haven’t verified this. Anyway, don’t expect them to be really private. I’d worry more about reddit since pm exchanges there can be intensely private, there is a single evil corporation saving them all, and the user population is mostly oblivious to that.

When I’ve had something private to discuss with a reddit user, I’ve asked them to switch to email. They are sometimes willing but not always.

Theoretically there is community input but at the end of the day, one guy owns it and can do stuff unilaterally. There is occasionally drama over that, like recently the piracy community was removed (from lemmy.world, not from the whole fediverse) due to concern over possible legal hassles. I’d say Lemmy world tries to be friendly and mainstream, while edgier stuff tends to live on other instances. So you can still find what you want.

Nothing stops you from using multiple instances of course. It’s no different from drinking at more than one café. But people tend to have a main one that they visit the most.

Edit: clarify about piracy community.

Users are like coffee drinkers and servers are like decentralized coffee shops that talk to each other (“federate”). Anyone can open a coffee shop and many do. It’s harder and more expensive than simply drinking coffee, but not that bad in the scheme of things, and within reach of average hobbyists with time on their hands and a few bucks to spend.

If the instance stays small, it’s cheap to run. If it gets popular, you can ask users for donations and volunteer help. Lemmy.world is the current biggest, and stays afloat that way.

Right now there’s not much corporate presence, but that may change soon, unfortunately.

It’s a spam bot.

The guy is bonkers and needs medical intervention before he is fit for trial.

Well you were talking about charging the gun owner if someone else commits a crime with their gun. That’s unrelated to this case where the shooter was the gun owner.

The lawsuit here is about radicalization but if we’re pursuing companies who do that, I’d start with Fox News.

This guy seems to have bought the gun legally at a gun store, after filling out the forms and passing the background check. You may be thinking of the guy in Maine whose parents bought him a gun when he was obviously dangerous. They were just convicted of involuntary manslaughter for that, iirc.

Turkey 2-hydroxy Tetrazzini.

Can you edit the title?
HuffPost Donald Trump Can’t Pay $464 Million Bond In NY Fraud Case Edit: actually a dup.

That I don’t know. My mom just has Comcast s and we have the cable box HDMI output going to the TV. No streaming though in principle we could use a computer for that.

I wonder if an HDMI computer monitor could substitute for a dumb TV.

Regarding pihole etc: idk if that suffices since the TV might have a wireless network inside. Better find and disconnect that too if it is there. I think there is no safe “non-destructive” way to de-smart the TV.

I’d want to find and physically remove all the microphones and cameras from the TV for peace of mind. Plus never let it have a network connection. Just use HDMI in.

Poor Tim. Look what they’ve done to his Web.

You push off against the walls.

Zero gravity dancing?

Just be nice but keep some distance. She doesn’t sound flat out yandere. Don’t freak out.