A RISC-V equivalent might be better in terms of hardware openness.

Influencer, because that term has pretty much become synonymous with ‘grifter’ at this point as most ‘influencers’ are trying to run a grift of some kind.

Last time I thought Matrix ran on ActivityPub like the rest of the Fediverse, though.

I think that we need more hybrid online/irl communities.

• There’s actually been some recent attempts to do exactly that, eg. zine communities have been getting big on ATproto recently, as well as art/craft communities in general.

Google’s the main contributor to closing the web off, they even straight-up admitted to that a few months ago and tried to DRM the web with WEI, but that failed with massive backlash.

Boohoo, the open web is broken…

• You caused it, MF’ers…

But yeah, walled gardens like Discord, Google, Meta, and Twitter certainly aren’t helping matters, and even some of the alternatives got some controversy of their own, eg. Bsky recently censoring people on their main PDS, although given ATproto is an open protocol, there’s no one and nothing stopping you from setting up an account on a third-party PDS like Blacksky or Northsky, or hosting your own, for example.

Apart from that, more open and decentralized/self-hostable alternatives need to crop up and fast, and we already have ATProto, ActivityPub/the Fediverse, PeerSuite, XMPP, and even LBRY/Odysee.

You know things are getting bad when two governments are on your case about your patent trolling, Nintendo.

Whatever OS they want or need, be it Ubuntu or Mint or whatever, or even Windows for that matter; it ain’t my system so it ain’t my decision at the end of the day.

I could recommend things for my hypothetical client to look into on their own at a later date, but whatever OS I install on that system is ultimately up to the person I’m hypothetically building it for, I can’t just randomly install something without the client’s permission, assuming I’m getting paid to build them a PC in this hypothetical.

Granted I’m speaking in terms of that person being a client in a business relationship more than a casual ‘I’m getting sick of Windows, what should I run instead’ setting-it-up-for-a-friend scenario, but still.

And also free speech, free press, rights in general… And I also can’t shake the feeling that the government shutdown was a ploy to attempt to delay or cancel both upcoming elections.

Because the vote was rigged and Elon Musk basically bought Trump the election.

His audience mostly.

I only counted Jobst for how quickly everyone turned on him after the lawsuit loss, so it’s purely for being a rapid downfall, Iiiluminaughtii is way worse.

Recently? Either Iilluminaughtii or Karl Jobst.

Tiktok easily.

Given Trump’s second term kinda proves there are no legal or ethical restrictions to becoming President, assuming that precedent sticks, then I’d like to see anyone who’s not a wannabe dictator come back and oust Trump.

Shit, Louis Rossmann as President would be kinda awesome.

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They’re probably going to pass some money under the table to get this overturned just like they did to get to keep Chrome and Android.

Ownership if locally hosting a private instance; a good point of comparison for this is locally hosting a private PeerTube instance vs. putting vids on YT or even DailyMotion, with that locally-hosted private PeerTube instance, since you own the infrastructure, you set the rules and you decide what stays or goes, on YT or DailyMotion, you’re completely at the mercy of a big corporation and they decide what content stays or goes, for example.

The moment they announced increasing censorship was what did it for me, basically it was the ‘It’s only a matter of time before I get banned on here so I might as well nuke my account while I’m still ahead’ realization when that went down.

Even just reading Reddit without an account sucks because Redlib is always getting blocked.

At least you can move to another instance if you ever get banned on any given instance on Lemmy, or roll your own instance if you really want to own your presence on this platform and you have the local hardware to dedicate to that, or even the rest of the Fediverse for that matter, to also include Mastodon, Pixelfed, Loops, Matrix, and PeerTube.