The question doesn’t really make sense as asked. The entire criminal justice system, almost by definition, revolves around punishment.

Punishment has several different purposes such as deterrence, removal, rehabilitation. I suspect you wanted to ask about why some of these purposes are “better” than others…

Here’s a comic explaining this: https://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=60

it’s mentioned in the explainxkcd, so apparently

Good. The Internet was always supposed to be an opportunity to expand the overton window. It’s incredible how much we’ve been allowing tech companies to be censors in the first place, anything that undoes this development is good.

TBF the last two bullet points are verbose descriptions of the thing it means in C++, Java, and Python too. It’s just that in JS, “this” can also be used in other places.

But yeah, in practice, every time I write JS I want to throw my hands in the air and shout “this is bullshit”, but never know what “this” refers to… :D

The fediverse is somewhat inherently a low-trust environment. Centralized social media (including traditional web forums) has only one database of users, so its administrators are able to keep track of similarities (in geolocation, email addresses, style even of deleted posts, etc.). Here every instance has its own database of users; if you register on another instance, it will be very difficult for anyone to figure out you’re the same person.

The fediverse is also still obscure enough that mostly it’s still a relatively high-quality place and this has mostly not been a real problem. You should join an instance, and communities, that moderate to give you an enjoyable experience. What that means varies according to person; I don’t mind the things you list very much, but am very glad I have not gotten any messages from fediverse chick Nicole in a while by now.

I may have found one (coincidentally a few minutes after seeing this thread): https://discuss.tchncs.de/modlog?userId=20528183

no, I agree with the above user that it would be better to federate images too, for at least the following reasons:

• redundancy: see the OP
• privacy reasons: images loaded from other instances inform the other instance that one is viewing those images, do you trust all of them?
• censorship reasons: some lemmy instances are blocked in my workplace and I can never look at images from them when browsing at work; others may be blocked in entire countries

If I’m not mistaken, Mastodon already does federate images to other instances, so it isn’t unheard of.

this is your brain on it being ok for governments to regulate the Internet :(

I know that instance had a policy of trying not to defederate from anything (unless very necessary). Is there another instance like this that will not be shutting down?

True if these are installed, but if I’m on a server’s command line they probably aren’t.

I think that instance is defederated by some instances? Check that first.

Any given instance (A) knows about all communities that have at least one subscriber on A. Maybe it doesn’t have any subscribers on the instance you’re trying to see it from yet, in which case try subscribing to it by searching for its exact name.

OK I’ll bite, how do you get rid of a literal ~ directory?

I mainly code Java with IntelliJ.

• it doesn’t AFAIK have an integrated browser or if it does I have never encountered it ❌
• I have not seen it crash a lot and certainly not for the stated reason ❌
• if autocomplete isn’t working, that is a sign something about the build process isn’t set up right, so other things won’t work either ❔
• basic settings being buried deep in the menus is definitely a thing ✅
• if it underlines something, that has always been an error, I think it calls a real Java compiler for this ❌
• freezing at critical moments can occasionally be a thing ✅

That is true. I remember around that time wishing the Internet were more popular among the general public and wishing that would turn everyone nerdy. The first part has happened, the second not.

Don’t forget that 20 years ago, no kids had social media

What does the word “social media” even mean?

Because I was definitely on web forums in 2005. I was a preteen back then.

https://xkcd.com/1053/

that channel posted its first video more than a year ago and videos from it have been posted to this community before

No, they are different pieces of software connected to different databases. They are run by the same company, but my understanding is Instagram is mostly about photos while Facebook has a wider variety of purposes (none of it it serves very well), eg microblogging, discussion groups, company pages, and others too.

Doesn’t PeerTube already do this? Maybe I am mistaken.

In any case there’s nothing inherently preventing this, just because a platform gets some of its data from other servers instead of its own users, it doesn’t mean it can’t use that data to run a recommendation algorithm.

I don’t want it though. I prefer choosing for myself what sources I want to get information from instead of getting any of it recommended by the platform operator.

the main thing I want my instance to defederate from is spambot farms, defederating because of political moderation policies is censorship and not moderation