I'm not an anti-capitalist. I'm pretty middle-of-the-road in that I believe in a regulated and taxed market economy. But on a personal level there are some aspects of my life that I would rather not place in the hands of corporations whose incentives aren't necessarily aligned with mine.
Google, Twitter, Reddit - I don't really disagree with their right to exist (concerns about monopolies aside). But the less involved they are in my life the better.
I don't think this is particularly surprising. Handshakes can form legal contracts, and contracts can be formed orally. There's no reason why an image couldn't indicate acceptance of a contract, generally speaking (certain specific types of contract may require additional formalities).
But I agree that who upvoted a post shouldn't be federated.
This also surprised me. I wonder is it necessary for technical reasons to prevent repeated upvoting of a submission by the same user?
When I was young, I spent a lot of time playing Extreme Paintbrawl. I only learned years later that it had achieved notoriety as one of the worst video games of all time. Looking back it's not hard to see why. But back when it was one of the very few games we had for PC, I got a lot of enjoyment out of it.
Also using Hetzner, can't complain and the pricing is good.
Donations, or with a small enough instance a server admin might just pay out of his or her own pocket. Maybe if Lemmy were ever to get much bigger there might be paid or ad-supported instances.
I think a big part of the point of federation is that the costs of hosting servers can be distributed so no one has to spend millions to keep their server running. That way there is less of a need to monetise an instance (and less of an incentive, as if you start doing anti-user stuff, people can just move to a different instance).
It seems that on any community I go to (whether local or on another federated instance) the "Subscribe" and "Block" buttons appear as plain text, not as buttons/links. So that I can't subscribe to any more communities. Occasionally, "Block" will appear as a button, but "Subscribe" pretty much never does.
Example:
This only seems to have arisen in the last couple of days.
Anyone else getting this or know how to fix it?
Would be really interested to hear any real life reviews from users of the Bangle.js 2. It looks great given its features and price point but would be interested to know if there is a catch somewhere.
-site:pinterest.* seems to work for me.
I hate Discord full stop, because it's a centralised proprietary platform just like Reddit and is going to hit the exact same issues one day, and it's going to be even harder to recover all the conversations that have gone on there.
You mean the password manager as the central authority? You can self host a password manager using, eg, Vaultwarden.
Even if you use a trusted, paid commercial service, I think the risk of that happening is lower than on Reddit. Their business model is simpler and more transparent. They want to keep you as a customer so you will keep paying them. And there is less opportunity for them to ban you for political reasons when you're not expressing yourself on their platform.
Services vary a lot on how they are deployed and their dependencies, etc. The knowledge I have (and honestly I don't have much) I just built over time, tinkering with different set-ups and trying to debug problems when they arose. So I guess just choose a few difference services and try to get them working (choose low-stakes ones at first, where the risk of getting pwned or losing everything is very low). Docker can abstract away a lot, so maybe try more direct deployments if you are interested in learning.