Ahhh, so they “mischaracterized” it. That makes it okay, then.

Banning an entire class of ads online and in media during peak hours? Sounds like a win to me, even if it doesn’t have the effect they hope for.

Ads suck, especially ads that are selling garbage no one needs. The fewer, the better.

It might vary from app to app, but there are usually options to toggle between Local and Everywhere for “All” content, if you want to see just what is on your own instance versus all other instances yours is federated with.

Some instances are defederated from them, which would prevent them from being seen elsewhere.

View desktop site, that gets past this bullshit 9 times out of 10.

Fuck 'em on principle though.

Because every step of the way, they need a flock of MBAs to figure out the answer to the question “How do we make money off of this?”

Cement is porous, those microplastics will get in eventually.

I’d look at it this way: a lot of people on Lemmy came from Reddit, but people’s reasons for leaving are different.

Some left Reddit for what it was, but still want what it has. Namely, they want the content and community, but they want to access it on their own terms, so they try to recreate it on Lemmy. If Reddit hadn’t fucked with their app access, they’d still be on Reddit.

Others want to actively avoid making Lemmy into Reddit 2.0, seeing it as a failed model, and so they try to prevent the spread of “Reddit-isms” in their instances. It’s a gatekeeping measure to prevent the spread of normies, thereby keeping their communities small, niche, and nerdy.

I’m honestly surprised there are a number of people in here who would push back against the idea of having federated access to Reddit content when this very community is unapologetically a Lemmy analog of Askreddit.

The browser versions of Office are straight ass though. Google Docs is better for a web option, but if you don’t want all your data farmed by Google, I think it’s easier to just install something local and lightweight like LibreOffice. Just convert to .docx (or whatever other Office app you’re working with) and share through OneDrive or Teams if collaboration is needed.

At least it’s not like they’re particularly expensive. And who knows, if they feel embarrassed enough, they might go out of their way ASAP to get their own to save face.

It’s not so much the banning I’m worried about as the brigading. If someone develops some mod tool that starts tracking downvotes in your community user by user, they could then essentially assign some sort of social credit score to people and harass them out in the wild.

People can be creeps online, too. I’ve seen more than one situation on Reddit before where people end up getting stalked by other users who harass them anywhere they see them. You say the right thing in front of the wrong person on the wrong day and they can just snap, becoming way too obsessive.

If some troglodyte spams hate speech that ends up in my All feed and I downvote them because that stuff deserves to be buried, I don’t want to have to worry about being potentially stalked and singled out by a weirdo who can connect their downvotes to me because they posted everything in their self-moderated community. Votes suck and internet points are dumb, but the system serves its purpose of providing an anonymous way to direct content and conversations in productive directions. Good stuff is elevated, bad stuff is buried.

Oh yikes, before I clicked the link I thought you were about to tell me that they were working on user data encryption. Not sure I am keen on enabling even more surveillance to be accessed by who knows who. Will definitely have to start worrying more about which communities I even let on my feed, in case I downvote some bigoted shit from someone’s personal community that shows up in All and they start witch-hunting users who took the bait.

With #3, someone correct me if I am wrong, but I don’t believe your run-of-the-mill moderator can see upvotes and downvotes. But instance admins can, just by nature of having access to the server data. Federation wouldn’t work if instances couldn’t communicate upvotes and downvotes across the platform to other instances, so short of finding some way to encrypt all the data, it’s an unavoidable consequence of the standard.

Seems kinda messy to be shooting salt all over your living space, though.

DAMMIT I FUCKED UP AGAIN.

Oh, I know the answer this this one! Uhh, mayo!

A self-cleaning litterbox. Absolutely worth it.

I don’t think China blowing up a satellite would be enough casus belli to bring the US into a war. No loss of life would occur.

Going back to World War 2 as an example, where the US similarly provided munitions aid to Britain via lend-lease, Germany sank several US aid ships, killing their American crews, and that wasn’t enough to bring the US into the war in full until the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

It would need to be some sort of event that brings conflict to the US, like Pearl Harbor or 9/11. Americans are too war-averse otherwise to support direct involvement in conflict, preferring proxy wars when they see the need for intervention.

Excluding laws in certain places meant to protect children from a life of ridicule, you can name your child whatever you want.

The issue of trademark, which is what this article highlights, only concerns applications where there is a business conflict. For example, it is normal for an actor/musician/artist to trademark their name as their “brand,” which means I can’t just form a thrash metal band called “Taylor Swift” to profit off of some confused music listeners. And even if my legal name was Taylor Swift, I could still be required to change my “stage name” to something else when promoting myself as an artist to avoid any confusion/conflict with Tay-Tay.

Last I checked, Warner Bros is not in the passport industry, so this is a dumb argument that should never have occurred. If I had to guess, it was probably just some random disgruntled government employee who felt the need to play armchair activist and “punish” a parent because they didn’t like the name they chose for their child.

Eh, they might settle in exchange for an NDA to avoid bad press.