So long as crypto exchanges exist, kidnappers can do this to anyone and get away with it.

Plot twist: he had a correctly implemented duress wallet.

If I was a kidnapper, I would just go after people with visible wealth because their families can just buy crypto with it.

I’ve got bad news about your phone.

Well yeah, the reason you don’t approve of it matters. If you never approved of it because you never liked the UX, then that’s not a good reason for everyone to stop using it.

When we minimize other reasons to “words you don’t like”, we imply an unimportant personal preference, and not a social choice with consequences for others.

Why not the overseas people?

Why does your customer service need to be on a popular platform? There’s no network effect.

Even a human using AI to convert over an article and giving it a once-over would be better than relying on AI entirely.

Well, something like it will still need to exist. In which case we can fork because it’s all Creative Commons.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

— Upton Sinclair

Where does one pay for quality news?

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ITT: gamers are basically forced to buy this game.

It sounds like we don’t disagree that much, I just think other doubting nations is extremely likely.

Edit: but gosh darn that is nice to imagine. Everyone, everywhere, having free internet.

Fediverse is superior to state-owned.

Now that you mention it, we need an Amazon replacement too.

lol you really threatened Lemmy with a good time

Reusable rockets are cool

I mean if we count bailouts as nationalization, then now we’ve got like some kinda national “socialism” where state and corporate power have fused.

I think every larger nation deploying their own constellation would reduce people losing access due to political games.

If there’s only one network with the same topology as Starlink, then the USA, China, or Russia will end up making a bunch of rules on everyone else just like Elon does today. Look how the USA abuses centralized internet infrastructure already. Multiple overlapping systems would be wastefully redundant, but reduces the risk of censorship.

We can’t get along and can’t have nice things.

If it’s really that bad we can always fork it.

Please be aware that being an admin is unfortunately quite a thankless job - if you’re doing your job well, then most people won’t even realize you’re doing anything. OTOH, if you make mistakes, there will likely be many users calling you out in public. The main motivation for joining the admin team would need to be a desire to help build and maintain this instance as a great home for yourself and others.

— lemm.ee admins 4 months ago

Being an admin is a job and deserves pay. We don’t have an infinite supply of good people to deal with an infinite supply of AI-generated trolling. That means we need donations in the short term, and to consider paid memberships in the long term.

Ads won’t work at all because we’re all using open source clients and browsers with Ublock. And even if they did, we know where that leads.

Evil suggestion: lock minor features behind pay walls, like profile pictures or bolding their name in comments. There are more people who will pay to look cool than there are people who will inconspicuously donate.