I'm willing to kick in a few bucks a month to keep my favorite stuff online, what I object to is when someone is making millions and they put the screws to us in order to make billions. I'm ok with paying my way, not with getting some ass a third Porsche.
Welcome to the Fediverse! I've found that people tend to have a little more realness when they're part of something they co-create vs merely participating in a company's space. Even if the server this "sub" is on dies, Lemmy and the Fediverse will continue.
Problem is Assange's interests and Moscow's interests aligned very very closely in Wikileaks' heyday, so he's won zero friends. He'd be better off trying to flee to Russia, which of course is a very dark definition of "better" and almost certainly impossible.
And which, if applied retroactively, would have prevented him from being a judge in the first place, thus creating a time paradox
Pat Robertson is currently shaking hands with Hitler in hell, and it's not prejudiced or uncivilized or bigoted to say so. He spent his whole life stirring up hatred, division, and lies -- well documented, over decades -- and nobody with an ounce of conscience would disagree.
Hell never accepted such a deserving soul
Some people only join stuff that seems mainstream and cool. You can chart Twitter growth with fans of Oprah and Donald Trump joining: before Oprah it was absolutely a nerdy thing, after I was surprised how many random average people from all walks of life had shown up. I'm talking like startup bros to fast food cashiers overnight.
Also there's two facts that can be used to our advantage: the internet started out non-corporate and decentralized, and it's the for-profit corporate nature of these companies that's causing the enshittification. So you can just say that you like stuff that goes back to the old good days of the internet and don't like being under the control of greedy corporations.
Whether it changes Reddit's course or not, the solidarity of people in protecting their interests against giant organizations that control stuff is pretty much always a good thing in the end. Assholes in power need to be reminded of what happens when they treat people poorly, and if that means bankrupting the richest man in the world and destroying our favorite website on the eve of its IPO, so be it. Long live federated decentralized open source!
Ahh no I access Lemmy via the mobile app. Thanks for the information, I'll be blocking them.
Love the initiative!