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not the technology itself necessarily, but everything that surrounds it. as it is, it’s mostly used as a plagiarism machine that devalues artists, and the companies behind it are committing mass copyright infringement, making electricity and hardware more expensive just so it can do that better.
and they never explain why i would use them over the more established matrix or fluxer (especially that fluxer now has federation for 2027 on their roadmap)
they don’t even have e2ee for DMs, and are most likely feeding your messages to LLMs
can’t have your cake and eat it too. the way federation works means bigger instances will always have more influence, but it’s a double edged sword. They cannot defederate from everything or it just turns into a normal centralized reddit knockoff, so the best thing to do is not to give in to their demands, if it gets bad enough the users will move; something else will become the next “flagship instance”.
nothing is exactly stopping you from jumping instances each time until you find someone that does not care for petty cross-site drama. username and comment history goes bust, but maybe that’s a good thing; less traceability.
what the french do, revolution. guillotine is optional, but recommended.
that aside, you can still use quad9 from VPN, they have no way differentiating between someone from france and literally anyone else using the same node. at least until the french government also bans VPNs
fwiw i agree, the internet could do less with propaganda from world superpowers. If what you’re saying is true, i’d just find an instance that does not listen to foreign admins regarding bans; and for users i’d just block ones you do not like. no need to isolate yourself from the community any further, we’re already plenty isolated from not being on the big social medias. quokk looks like a good place for you.
Don’t how how the lemmy census is, but unless the instance refers to a specific country like lemmy.ca or feddit.org i would imagine that the split between “big three” and other countries is roughly the same, regardless if they federate or not.
yeah, they went full on genAI tech. it’s a shame; i really liked the fluid/softbody simulation stuff even if that uses some sort of machine learning model, that’s way more interesting than “wow look how ai generates videos now” or yet another bullshit marketing claim made by sam altman.
I wouldn’t be surprised atp if their scripts are generated by LLM too.
I know admins can power trip, but i don’t believe that just so happens to be the case for every single instance you sign up for just because your political viewpoints are different, unless you’re incredibly confrontational about them or you’re a literal nazi fascist; which no one here likes, twitter would be a better place then.
For obvious reasons i don’t have access to comments on your previous accounts, but from what you said i would try re-evaluating whether it really is true that everyone else is the problem, and you’re 100% blameless.
as i see it, the point of lemmy and mastodon is the federation, so the infrastructure can be decentralized but the content on there isn’t. like other guy said, probably better to search for isolated forums for topics that you like. upside is that stalkers will have a way harder time tracking all of your online activity.
you’re better off not using lemmy at all then. I never really got the discrimination for the different instances anyway, it’s true that certain people tend to hang out on certain instances, but discounting everything just because of the link they chose when creating an account is dumb imo.
i assume if my router isn’t there i shouldn’t be installing openwrt on it?
is there something wrong with RAM on windows? iirc this was one of the things that worked normally for me.
first quad9, now this? wtf is the french government doing?
my now deleted reddit account is archived on pullpush, just cause they scrape everything. I don’t have stalkers, but i might in the future. They’ve just totally ignored my GDPR request and blocked me from communication lol. i’ve complained to my DPA but i think i either got ignored or i’m expected to wait over a year.
is that the one where they measure one half in BTUs and the other in KWh for some reason
no, i agree with you. i was just being facetious
i was assuming no logs policy being a given; without it, the VPN is worthless no matter how good privacy laws are in their jurisdiction.
they’re populists, and their policy is whatever gets them the most votes at the moment.
they probably don’t but i also doubt they’re doing much with that data, while discord actively has corporate investors.