although I’m not sure how that situation happens

Both the warning lights and the rain can be easily explained by some brain dead suit buying the wrong kind of fire suppression system because sprinklers using water are much cheaper than a system using a gaseous agent.

Why should the enshittification stop at the internet? Let’s enshittify the whole world for good measure.

Your mileage may vary, but it’s still possible to install some distros without those nonsensical containerised “package managers”, or to at least remove them after installation. It unfortunately takes an increasing amount of effort, especially in distros that are actively trying to push their flavour of containerised package manager. (Totally not looking at Ubuntu and Snap)

What is working in our favour here is the fragmentation, which will prevent, or at least slow down a too widespread adoption of those systems.

for security reasons.

AKA to boost sales of new devices by making old devices unusable faster by preventing the user from upgrading storage.

Fake. That’s legible, so it can’t be a legit doctor’s prescription.

A basic awareness test is built into the fediverse, you have to choose an instance to sign up on in order to create an account and participate. This filters out everyone whose intellectual capacity doesn’t go further than tapping “install” in their smartphone’s app store.

I prefer quality over quantity. Spammers, advertisers, “influencers”, brainless users consumers who can’t tell the difference between an “app” and a website, and other “mainstream” phenomena can stay in their corporate internet cesspits. Their absence alone makes a platform a lot more pleasant to use.

10 years here, haven’t modded anything and was mostly active in a few relatively niche subreddits, so, unfortunately, currently Lemmy can’t fill the void quitting Reddit left (yet), but still not looking back.

Not giving the corporate fucks at Reddit any more free content. If you’re living off the community, don’t shit on the community.

Use an ad blocker and the traffic is of little value to them. Especially if it only goes to /r/place and doesn’t allow to create much of a profile.

It would be a shame if someone conspired to coordinate such a thing…

From my personal experience of more than 20 years in that field, waiting lists for new members are indeed a very odd thing. Usually it’s the opposite, volunteer fire brigades will pester anyone who looks only remotely interested to please join right now, basically, in most places, you’ll be handed a form and told where to sign faster than you can say out loud “I’d like to join” 3 times.

Unequal treatment of applicants, if done on purpose, would be very much illegal.

The things new members might have to wait for is getting fitted with personal equipment, delivery times have been a sad joke since the pandemic, I’ve seen people wait for more than half a year for a pair of new boots.

The thing is, the AFD, apart from being Nazis, are also neoliberal. Only an idiot (who also likes Nazis) will vote for them over disliking neoliberalism.

Politico is owned by the Axel Springer corporation, which is the German equivalent to Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate. Expect nothing but hate inciting bullshit and drivel from them.

Didn’t delete my account, just overwrote all my comments with a message to corporate Reddit and Spez in particular and deleted my posts. Didn’t want to delete mainly because a deletion can happen for any reason, I rather wanted to send a message that can be seen.

Regrets? Yes, but overall it was worth it.