In Reddit, years ago, I was writing about protecting endangered whales. Apparently it was quite the pro whaling community that day. Never knew I could get more than -100 downvotes, but I far surpassed that

Wildly depressing!

I guess all the corruption and moral collapse allows me, who has absolutely no clue about law, to actually have educated guesses how important cases are voted.

I simply ask myself “how would a bad person decide?”

This is the way

I program a lot with both wp and laravel over the last years. Not sure what I want to say other than they are cool but different vibes and skills.

Wp can be used out in the box by almost anyone who is web savvy; laravel is always needing some assembly, at the least, so the entry there is programming or deep pockets to pay that.

Wp community and sites is probably a thousand times larger than laravel?

Bleach?

Nothing stopping meta from adjusting or hiding the vote count later. Hundreds of ways to fiddle with that thing, some really subtle and would not generate drama.

I’m pretty sure the current reason to remove the fact checking is so the company is not put on a collision course with government, a government that will lie so much daily it will break all records.

So, just because they can alter the community notes does not mean they will

Been divorced since forever, and with age comes wisdom. I think it would be fantastic if I had a high earning wife. Really…

Not only are there different character sets that seem like it’s Unicode, but the set in MySQL can change based on the session, the client, the server, the db , the table and the column. All six of them can have different encodings.

Just make sure all are using the same 4 byte Unicode. Different collation is ok when backing up because only important when comparing strings.

There is a long list of things those payment services will not do, and reliance on any of them makes a federated service a polite fiction, forcing each set of server admins to enforce and ban many things on the possibility it could shut them down .

It can only work with untraceable crypto, and even then we are back to the illegal market strategy, and why those markets are in the dark web, with most of them doing exit scams

I see this in my own field as patent trolls.

Not ordinary people, and relatively rare per capita; but the population is big enough to have many parasites; or a very proficient few based on what they practice.

My life would be easier professionally if the top ten patent trolls went out of business nationally

In my region ( USA), ordinary people simply don’t have the resources for individual lawsuits like this.

It would have to be a well connected or monied individual to have any chance. Or the situation is so egregious and documented enough, that a law firm thinks it can make money, by taking most of the winnings from the victims

What little of it that is

Uphill, in the snow, both ways

Maybe lemmy will grow over time to include more types of people.

Social unrest may evolve this network faster than expected, in particular ways that are not foreseen. So, in my mind there are two paths for lemmy. A stable growth or chaotic .

Edit : unrest in any country that has a lot of lemmy users if alternative social networks clamp down or are unsafe to use

A lot of the initial popularity of Isis in Iraq was due to very similar factors. This was an uprising of a complex mix of people and goals. Most involved at first were established leaders who were patriotic and tribes who were oppressed by the new and invalid government.

This of course was airbrushed in the west and countless thousands were killed by Americans during the uprising.

Syria was destabilized due to the mass death.

The main takeaway here is that force often seems like an answer but that can go badly

I think this is like a parallel situation as seen in the Reddit ceo driving migration to lemmy.

The wp meltdown was destructive and healthy at the same time. A minority of wp users will look into alternatives, which will help make those better to use because the devs get more support, and/or the alternative communities and ecosystems start to grow

Undersecretary for auction integrity

All posts are filtered, organized and sometimes made by AI, or non AI programs, which will decide which users get shown which posts?

Interesting