We made it this way because you’re stupid. Also, if you don’t like it, you’re stupid.

No wonder it turned out to be a pile of dogshit.

How can I get this motherfucker to stop showing up in my feeds? I have him and all his subs blocked, and he still wriggles into my life.

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles…

Considering how easy it is to set up a screen reader or to set an overriding font on most browsers, this seems like an exercise in futility. That said, something like mssystem ought to do it – standardized, block-style typeface, with little to differentiate the individual letters.

Ah, we finally got to the point of “anyone who disagrees with me is a troll.” Took longer than I thought. This thread is becoming a great way to populate my blocklist.

If I had to guess, I’d say they’re trying to maximize their market cap. It’s no secret that they’re looking for a buyer and/or eyeing and IPO. The more profitable they can seem before that, the more money Huffman can walk away with.

Better yet, use a hidden partition.

That’d be my suggestion. I can’t imagine that the average airport security goon is going to check the reported size of the drive against the hardware specs as part of a normal inspection.

Always play stupid in these instances: I forgot the password; I got it second-hand and didn’t know about that; Encrypt-a-what, now?

Well, it depends on your instance. Some of them aren’t popular, and some of them don’t allow downvotes at all. But, over here, it’s apparently hip to just click into a profile and downvote everything they’ve posted because they said something you disagree with. I won’t name names, because that’d be just as bad, but you can look through my profile if you’re really interested.

Typically, yes, but the brigaders have found their way here, so don’t expect it to last long.

I can’t imagine why. As much as I love the fediverse and what it stands for, it’s barely a blip on anyone’s radar at this point.

At some point, maybe. Back when I was running my own Mastodon instance, things were pretty much in this same state, but lots of other things have improved.

I mean, in Russia, anything is possible, but in any country that respects the rule of law, you’re a citizen if you pay taxes.

Name checks out.

can Joe Schmoe hosting a rinky-dink Lemmy instance do the same?

So rinky-dink that he doesn’t have a proper backup system, right? One unfortunate accident, and there’s no data to subpoena.

If I had to take a guess, its probably from folks running over it and breaking it off.

If I’m doing a drive-by of Reddit, I might nab a few stories, but for the most part I don’t even load it anymore.

You can sue over anything, sure, but if you’re really considering it, you’re better off waiting for HR to finish its investigation. If it comes out in your favor, you can use that to bolster your position; if it doesn’t, then you may want to rethink filing. Let somebody else’s money do your litmus test.

Popular speech doesn’t require defense.

Yeah, kbin here.