

inb4 Iceweasel
inb4 Iceweasel
Most things are in German, but if something isn’t translated to German yet or I can’t be bothered to change it from English, it doesn’t bother me much to use it in English either.
You realize this thing right here is social media too, right? :o
It does? Rich people or companies they own might want to produce things that infringe on patents too; not obvious that this has anything to do with “rich people” one way or the other.
everyone was born January 1, 1970 or something when that question is asked for purposes of age verification
This has also been the narrative on recent techdirt.com posts, e.g. https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/13/at-last-doge-and-musk-are-finally-named-in-a-lawsuit-albeit-officially/ - I (not being American) do not know or care enough about the topic to have an opinion about it.
nothing at all is universally “blocked on Lemmy”, different instances + communities set rules that apply there, that is kinda the point of it all…
If you think this is a good idea for a specific community, ask its moderators to create and enforce a rule for this, or create a community of your own where you can set any rules you like.
I only comment when I feel I am adding something to the conversation that nobody else has added. On many contentious topics, nearly everything that can be said has already been said by someone, so I usually don’t comment on them.
I only downvote when something is blatantly factually false or posted in bad faith (i.e. obviously trolling and I can’t think of a good-faith reason why someone would post this).
If I merely disagree with something, I write an answer explaining why, or if there already is one that I agree with, I upvote that.
One major change that has happened is: forums used to be linear with thread bumping (phpBB, SMF), now they are mostly conversation trees with sorting by upvotes or similar (Reddit, Lemmy).
Yup, I realize that too when looking at a map of it. Still, the only place on that lake I can name off the top of my head is Chicago and several times in my life already, my brain already went “and that’s on Lake Michigan, so it’s in Michiga– no, riiiiiight, it’s in Illinois”.
honestly as a non-American, this would unironically make things less confusing: the largest city on that lake is Chicago and I always have to consciously remember “that city is in Illinois, but the lake it is on is called Lake Michigan”.
easy to do in svg, just start with something like <svg width=“SOME HUGE NUMBER” height=“SOME OTHER HUGE NUMBER”>, then <rect width=“SOME HUGE NUMBER” height=“SOME OTHER HUGE NUMBER” x=“0” y=“0” /> and you’re mostly done; a gradient or pattern requires more than that, but vector graphics don’t really care how large you say they are
Some people might still be subscribed to it, so you will reach an audience. I never check whether moderators are active before posting.
My understanding is instance admins can change moderators, so depends on the instance the community is hosted on.
Why would you not want to post there?
The world overall has changed.
Copyright used to be one of the main threats to a free and open Internet that empowered people to communicate freely, to a digital society overall.
Now the “digital society” is very much something that’s been realized and isn’t going away any time soon, meanwhile there are other threats to the free and open Internet from all sides of the political spectrum, such as: age verification laws, attempts to censor “hate” and “misinformation”, bans on specific platforms (TikTok) etc. etc. etc. This has distracted people from copyright, everybody seems to have now accepted the fact that copyright will mainly be enforced by DRM and if the DRM is broken, there’s no effective way to stop the spread of information.
Literally anybody who thought about the idea for more than ten seconds already realized this a long time ago; apparently this blog post needed to be written for the people who didn’t do even that…
probably, I remember something along those lines
your link doesn’t work, here’s what you meant to link to: https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/germany-and-genocide
(Also this will probably be deleted on this sub because it’s not a link to an actual news source.)