I gather aviation fuel isn't taxed at all
I think the point of the post is ain't nobody donating $20 to the Lemmy platform or host or other apps
I don't mind so much that it's not FOSS. Developer needs paying, fair enough
I want an app without an egregious Privacy Policy that doesn't bundle code that shares "Usage Data" with advertisers
Yea but does that prevent Google from getting that data via AdMob?
What constitutes Usage Data. Is it sharing the posts I view, communities I subscribe to etc?
Does paying for a premium version stop this data being collected?
Not in favour of this.
I chose Lemmy.world because I wanted an instance that would federate even with people I might disagree with. If it's illegal and abusive, sure. But to defederate on ideological grounds? I was planning a recurring donation but this makes me consider setting up my own instance.
They're welcome to whatever discussions they want to have on their instance. As long as they respect the rules of other instances when they're here, then everybody wins.
As for their point about dismantling western propaganda - if they have documented sources then let's have a conversation. It's not like there isn't western propaganda
Yea implying that we don't have propaganda and narratives on our side of the wall is naive
If we want the truth then an open discussion is the path. There will be arguments in bad faith, sure. But that's not limited to "them". It's a human discussion thing.
I much prefer a separate server for the simple reason that it makes my desktop somewhat disposable. Reboot whenever, install whatever. If it breaks my server stays up
Basically, the more you isolate the purposes, the less the purposes clash
Just updated and noticed most images have got broken thumbnails
Yea probably similar to how Lemmy and Kbin are theoretically compatible. ActivityPub doesn't guarantee that, it's only because they happen to use ActivityPub in the same way. If one of them changes their implementation, compatibility breaks.
I do often wonder how much it matters that all these platforms use ActivityPub
Reminds me of the statement that you can't dissect a rabbit to find out why it's cute
This is naive. America has all the laws they need to get data from private companies, just the same as China
My old person trait is that most of these sound like very recent problems
That needs a character count really. Words isn't a particularly relevant measure when the language uses compound words