.world was already bad, doesn’t stop me from being disappointed when one of the instances I liked more gets worse.

So all moderation is wrong?

No.

You can achieve essentially the same effect via blocking. Bypassing defederation instead requires using a different instance.

You might be thinking about .ml instances. dbzer0 has been one of the most open instances. I’m just disappointed at the current trend.

It isn’t, I have active accounts on a handful of instances atm.

or the authority

Authority is exactly the problem. Who would’ve thought that somebody with an account on an anarchist instance has problems with other people telling them what they can and can’t do?

Shocking, I know.

“people voting for something I don’t like” is an especially idiotic way to define it.

You’re right, that would be idiotic. Good thing I didn’t define authoritarian that way, and no, it is not a meaningless word, you can (in fact) look it up in a dictionary which describes the meaning fairly well.

Voting to block a domain and having that domain blocked isn’t comparable to electing an authoritarian leader.

Nobody has said that? What it does is remove the choice from each individual, which is authoritarian, even if done via majority vote. There was nothing stopping those who wanted the domain blocked to do that themselves.

Ah yes because nothing authoritarian was ever implemented through a vote…

Personally, I voted against on my db0 account, the top voted comments explain pretty thoroughly why.

It’s sad to see dbzer0 slowly creeping towards authoritarianism. This is exactly the kind of reason I couoldn’t entertain making it my primary instance unfortunately.

I like the idea but alas a lot of the products produced & sold back then would be illegal to have as commercial products today.

Yup, still rocking my oneplus 5t from 2018 and will keep using that bad boy until it literally breaks.

TL:DR - because they perform more transactions that seem like they might down the line cause the banks to be liable for allowing financing of terrorism, and the risk isn’t worth it (for the banks).

just put it under natural selection

It literally is though. People have been doingstupid shit for recognition for ages and getting killed.

Call it what you will. Darwin award or whatever, but as long as people pay attention, they will find a way to do stupid risky shit for clout, regardless of how idiot-proof we attempt to make society.

Yes, particularly people with chronic physical health issues are significantly overrepresented in both depression and suicide.

Yeah, I will admit that there is a strange satisfaction to brushing off snow.

Thick frost however? That’s just torture.

My current is now going on 8 years and I have no intention of replacing it. About time for a new battery tho

You can bet on basically everything somewhere. The betting market is the way to go if you want real odds of what’s happening tomorrow. They have a financial incentive to be accurate (half-joking).

Because it’s about the discussion and exchange of information & ideas, not about individuals.

Oh yeah, you could definitely find something like that in a Swedish home, although usually we have taller candles in the advent candelabra (so it becomes obvious that the earlier ones have been burning down for longer)