Offensive language won’t be tolerated here? According to who? You clearly don’t understand federation if you can’t grasp that you can be part of two different instances that aren’t federated. What you’re doing is trying to impose your will on other people who want nothing to do with it. Calling that fucking stupid is the most polite way I can frame that attitude.

Nah, it doesn’t seem quite like that. The closest thing I can think of would be something like Tumblr or closer still Geocities

I would definitely be down with a return to things like webrings. Everyone creates their own website and uploads content, and good creators invite eachother to their rings. I don’t know why we ever stopped doing that.

I think younger people don’t give a shit about privacy because they grew up in a post 9/11 surveillance world. Facebook, Instagram and the internet at large became a giant surveillance machine and they’ve never known another possibility, so it’s normalized to them.

How is that the death of the fediverse? Just go to Threads if you want to be part of it. What are you people, fucking stupid?

to research and innovate for social good.

Oh fucking please. What a total absolute load of rat shit, my dear fucking lord.

Simple enough, based on their TOS we just block their instance and they can no longer create a profile/scrape our data. Anyone know how to go about that? If so, lemmy know

Actually the copyright option might be the best one. Theoretically speaking the instance would need to state that all work is licensed only and that every comment and post has the copyright retained to creator/OP.

It’s just a simple tweak of the terms of service, but that would be enough to do it. Getting them to respect it is another ball game, because as we’ve seen with Midjourney and other photo apps, they have clearly scraped photos with watermarks that they didn’t have access to, and have used them to both train their models, and in the final output. This is why there was discussion of a class action lawsuit, although I didn’t hear where that ended up going.

For every instance of her using her “deep voice”

Because in their minds, they’re the persecuted ones. It’s like that scene in Silicon Valley where Gavin Belson claims that billionaires are the most persecuted people in history.

I mean, the part where the girl isn’t even trans just makes this asshole look even fucking worse. He would’ve been a piece of shit either way, but now he’s a piece of shit on top of being wrong. Does this guy look at cancer patients and have a shit fit because he thinks they’re trans too?

And then when people call him out on his bullshit, he starts accusing them of being uncivilized.

Straight out of the right wing boomer playbook.

Because it’s Kelowna. I’ve driven through and stayed for an afternoon and it’s basically the Mississippi of Canada.

One might even say it’s well regarded