Fediverse at lemmy.ml here reporting in
This but I'd personally find a way to get Twitter and Facebook in there too, instigating genocides all over the planet to make a buck
Ah yes, when capitalists infect free open source software.
This is a very "if Walmart wants to open a supercenter in our tiny little town there's not much harm in letting them, after all our local mom and pop shops will always be available if we need to kick them out!" -- Facebook has done this many times before, by the time the jig is up it's too late to undo.
Supposedly the lemmy.ml and lemmygrad instances and Lemmy software are made by people who think the Chinese Communist party is good. I haven't verified it though.
Sure! Reddit survived for a good long time without their own image hosting though. We'll see how the Fediverse handles it.
It's interesting how "minor" conditions can have huge effects on conflicts. Apparently the South thought they could leverage their cotton ("cotton is king") and use it to convince England/Europe to back them, but not only did Confederate diplomacy suck but other countries did the math and decided they didn't need Southern cotton bad enough to piss off the Union.
It seems these guys and their spiritual descendents have a long proud history of overestimating their importance and worth while antagonizing everyone else and behaving like idiots.
Text is cheap. It doesn't cost a ton of money to run these instances at least not yet, so people can do it as a hobby or with a few supporters.
It does however pay to ask your instance admins what their plans and policies are for moderation, defederating, finances, backups, having a money buffer in case things need to be spun down, and having multiple admins in case of disaster.
Yeah it'll be interesting if there's enough evidence with some of these manifestos and investigations to put the pieces together and say this is exactly how he was radicalized.
About as much sense as building a company off free volunteer labor and then acting like you own those volunteers and the money they helped you earn
It doesn't take a ton of effort to make a website and an app, Lemmy is already hockey-sticking off entirely volunteer everything.
Yeah The Intercept has had a curious history of saying things that benefit Russian foreign policy for a very long time now. Of course limiting access to the front lines of an active war is reasonable, especially when the environment and population are incredibly fluid. (This isn't America vs the Viet Cong in 1970, this is people's nephews vs their uncles and everyone's got a smart phone in their pocket.)