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.

I don’t doubt that they are, I’m going to keep recommending this, but if you haven’t been banned from Reddit yet, kill your account on there while you’re still ahead like I did, because it’s a matter of when you get banned on that site at this point, rather than if.

Could The Iron Giant count given a big part of its message came from the director’s sister succumbing to domestic gun violence?

At least they won’t go away if the downloads for them are delisted, they’ll still be there for you to re-rip from.

If you lose those files and don’t have them backed up for whatever reason, and they’re delisted from downloading, they’re gone, or if they get corrupted for some reason and they’re delisted, you can’t just re-download them anymore.

That’s fine, I’m just nerding out.

You can always roll your own instance if you have the hardware to spare. I don’t recommend hosting on a VPS as that defeats the purpose of self-hosting as you’re hosting on someone else’s computer at the end of the day and that’s no different than signing up for an existing public instance and posting there, other than you’re paying for that VPS.

When or ifever I end up buying music, it’s going to be physical where possible because legal download sites are going on delisting sprees now, eg. like 7Digital’s been doing for a while now.

At least with physical CDs, I can do my own FLAC rips and not worry about losing the physical copy unlike with legal download sites where if it’s delisted, it’s completely gone even for downloads you already bought.

Vinyl also technically can be ripped to FLAC, but since you’re digitizing an analog format, it’s a real-time process so you gotta sit through an entire side of an LP unlike with CDs which can be ripped quickly, plus you’d need to manually split the raw waveform up into individual tracks, and manually input metadata, digitizing analog formats like vinyl, open-reel, or cassette is a very long, drawn-out, and manual process vs. ripping CDs, but it’s something I’d still recommend doing especially as vinyl physically wears down every time it’s played back as is its nature being a mechanical format read by a stylus, so digitizing an album to FLAC for future playback and then putting the physical album back on the shelf can prolong its life, especially for any particularly valuable albums.

This goes for tape formats too although since they’re read by a magnet, they don’t wear down every time they’re played back in the same way vinyl does, but they still degrade.

Another perk to all this especially for digitizing vinyl in particular, is you’d have a FLAC ‘master file’ you could then transcode to Opus or some other lossy codec for listening on space-limited devices like a lot of lower-end mobile devices, but that also applies to FLAC rips of CDs or even digitized tape albums too; keep the FLACs at home while putting the Opus rips on your phone if your phone is space-limited (even 510kbit/s Opus rips are smaller than the FLAC input file while having no audible degradation).