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The world is ruled by idiots, and anyone that thinks being rich makes you smart is an even bigger idiot.

You mean the thing that was a blue sky research effort? From that website it doesn't even sound like anything exists, it's just a thought experiment to see if it would make sense. How is that in any way dystopian or nihilistic or whatever tone you appear to be going for?

This is how public policy should work. It would be foolish and irresponsible not to investigate if a new technology has a valid and useful application.

This is like noticing that the Army has plans for a Zombie invasion without applying any of the context and then using that as evidence that zombies are real and the gubment is covering it up. Instead of applying a tiny bit of actual research and finding out it's a common way that the military plans for politically unsavory possibilities like Canada invading the US. Also known as doing their actual job in a professional and not-at-all-suspicious way.

Of course they can, what else would moderators be doing? Not entirely sure how this is even a question...

Defending billionaires is an even more ammoral act than making a joke you don't like, comrade.

I think this defeats the entire point of having separate instances. We need to start thinking of each instance's community as a separate space, not duplicates or mirrors of each other.

For anyone else that was already using the "Kbin.it" style, looks like this conflicts a bit (up and down vote buttons didn't look right). I ended up just turning that off now that Kbin has directly added those features (expand/collapse comment tree and moving the reply form to the top of the page).

Pretty sure parent is making a glib reference to the common "eat the rich" saying. It's meant to be a provocative way to illustrate a larger message of anti-capitalism and the immorality of extreme wealth disparity.

The whole point of the Fediverse is to add a human-based trust component. Why would a company that has repeatedly shown itself to not be trustworthy get the benefit of the doubt?

IMO, Meta can start their own instance and ask to be invited to the larger system, assuming they first prove to be worth taking that risk.

Where you on reddit when Digg collapsed? Because it wasn't just a solitary wave. Like human migration around Earth in prehistory, it was multiple waves, each motivated by different reasons.

The important thing is that this wave may have been enough to jumpstart something that can survive on its own. Just need to be ready for the next wave.

People switch behavior patterns for a reason. It doesn't matter how good or bad either option is, most people won't even be aware that switching to something else is an option until whatever they are currently doing fails to meet their needs in some way.

We just saw this play out with Kbin and Lemmy. It wasn't something inherent about them that suddenly increased the userbase. It was an external event. The Fediverse just happened to exist already, but if Huffman hadn't gone on an ego trip then they probably would have stayed very small things for the forseeable future no matter how good the experience was.

I like how it says their "updated" API rate limits but doesn't mention when those rules went into effect or how much warning they gave developers.

Spoiler: the answers are "very recently" and "not even a month".

How is it even possible to have "official" vs "unofficial" categories in a decentralized, trust-based system that is designed to never be 100% interconnected?