I want the ability to have everything behind a login. I don’t want people not signed in watching videos and wasting bandwidth.

What is peoples opinions on reposting. Sometimes i see a cool video from a creator i like and i want to repost it to loops but i feel like im stealing and reuploading their work. I think reposting to lemmy is fine since its a link aggregation site first.

I would urge you to re-read that and scrutinize the claims because I do not think that should ruin your view of Dan. Think about the claims and ask your self if you really care about those points.

That letter comes off as extremely pathetic. The guy is human. Nothing said there was crazy or rude or worth canceling support for a over. None of the nitpicked points had nearly enough evidence or context for people to make a judgement. The presentation was extremely bias and borderline untrue.

For example “I am also in talks with @hazy! to join our team” is not an official offer to join the team. Yet this letter presents it as a set in stone offer that Dan went back on for unjustified reasons. Dan gave his reasons why the offer fell through and if he is to be believed (and if he isnt) then the negotiations fell through and thats normal and ok.

Another example. This letter says Dan is so mean to his fellow fedi devs calling them rats. Then shows 3 instances of Dan clearly responding to attacks against him. Why can these “fellow” fedi devs attack dan but Dan cannot defend himself? The comments for Dan were unbelievably tame. He does not call fedi devs rats he calls some of the people attacking him rats. There is a big difference there.

I would push back on any example in that doc (except the open source one) because they all seem very stupid.

People start these projects as a hobby and users expect higher than corporate level professionalism its insane. You want people to be human but you dogpile anyone who acts human.

awesome. I think this will really motivate people moving over to stay for a bit.

I can handle physical pain because i still have energy and can work around the pain but sickness pain/discomfort is so hard to deal with. I’m tired I can’t do anything I just lay down and hope for death.

The left can’t even convince enough people to vote let alone join a violent revolution.

The front page of Reddit was the same 10 usernames for majority of the sites existence. I wouldnt be surprised if it was still the same users just using multiple accounts because so many people blocked their mains.

Its wild to me how active lemmy feels compared to mastodon. I told my normie friends about it when I found out about it during the migration and they insisted that it would die and recently I was able to update them and say its still going strong and its got its own unique vibe that feels different from reddit.

I personally don’t see the value add of e2e encryption to public posts in a federated social media.

DMS are the only place I could see it being beneficial.

Where did I say your time was best served arguing with people? What an odd takeway from my original comment.

You intentionally miss the point so hard id rather be arguing with a bot.

No that cant be why they do not list lemmy. The other services there federate in the same way.

That cant be the issue because the site is called joinfediverse and everything it lists is federated.

What is the issue with user privacy? These do not sound like valid concerns to me.

Social media is filled with bot content but its still filled with hundreds of millions of real people looking at those posts and comments and subconsciously forming an opinion. My comment applies to IRL as well.

If everyone on the left logged off and touched grass and entire generation of kids growing up on the internet would move to the right. If you dont want to participate that’s fine, im only giving my opinion on why you should consider doing so.

If you aren’t out there commenting on political issues someone else will be. You should give your 2cents so that discussions reflects accurately what the users think. If only 1 group of people comment then lurkers will think that group is the majority.

I’m always impressed by people who can receive a rude throwaway comment and share an empathetic intelligent response that not only connects the original poster but every person who reads it.

But you can follow people on those platforms from one account. Multiple accounts is not required.

Microblogging is mature now and I think it sucks as a communication medium. I think discussion focused sites are a much healthier experience.

Nothing I can do. As far as I know there is no bomb safety infrastructure near my house plus I’m afraid of getting trapped underground so I wouldn’t want to risk sitting in one.

I’d crack a beer, sit out on my deck and call my family and close friends to say my goodbyes.