leslieriver

Federation is like living off the grid because you don't like cities and their administration. Blinded by their privilege, they argue that everyone should follow them and their methods are the future. Sitting in their log cabins in the middle of nowhere, they lament about the crisis of cities and how tearing them down is the way of progress.

When you examine the history of the internet, you can see how centralization transformed the inefficient federated services accessible only to the privileged as toys into utilities that positively impacted the lives of the masses. The remaining prevalent federated services, plagued with the curses of federation like email, are systematically stripped of their federation features to make them fit the needs of the modern world.

The fediverse advocates are like the above mentioned primitivists, who, while correctly identifying certain problems with cities or modern civilization, suggest the regressive path to primitivism as a solution to them without realising that we have been there and even if you somehow managed to achieve it, we will still, by historical necessity, come back to where we are today.

Yikes, The fediverse is a cult of developers who engage in self-indulgent software creation to satisfy their regressive notion of decentralization.

Why are you upset about someone's pet project that they haven't touched in seven years?? A quick glance at their profile also tells me that English isn't their native language. They probably used the word "productive" wrong. Additionally they were probably only starting to learn to code and didn't know how to adjust the CSS properly and might have thought that leaving a placeholder is better than showing an ugly layout.

Turning off federation would have the added benefit of stopping the crazies from coming on here

After reading this conversation, I had the similar thought. Instead of wasting effort resolving federation-related issues, it would be far better to concentrate on enhancing other parts of the Lemmy software and community if federation doesn't actually offer much value to the majority of users.

When i have to mechanically write boilerplate code

Men's rights is a fundamentally reactionary movement found solely to counter the revolutionary movement of feminism. It's just like 'All lives matter'. Let's change some words in your question to expose it's absurdity

'Not the right wing All lives matter, Some kind of left version that would fundamentally be a BLM movement but with different branding. Different branding would be necessary to absorb a bunch of white people into it.

There are alot of things we do as species that is consensual capitalism isn't one of them.

You can call your job whatever you want. But unlike prostitution it's not literal rape. What makes your job exploitative is not the working conditions or the size of the company, it's the necessity to sell your labor to get your means of subsistence. You had no choice but to keep working because you would starve and freeze to death if you didn't. That's why I quoted the literal definition of rape. Prostitution is literally rape.

Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without that person's consent. The act may be carried out by physical force, coercion, abuse of authority, or against a person who is incapable of giving valid consent.

You have no problem understanding the lack of agency of the worker in their workplace. you just don't want to call it rape because it makes you uncomfortable.

There is nothing consensual about having to sell your body to make a living

Prostitution is rape.

don't know if this is minor, but

• Ban all billboard ads and force them to have art instead