Floridians have a right to hit protesters with their car if they need to “flee for your safety.”

are you fleeing for your safety surrounded by ron de santises?

He missed a bit:

they will, rightfully so, switch to a different instance … or go somewhere else

then this isn’t a problem for the broader fediverse community to solve

This is the natural end result of every volunteer run instance, you don’t find it odd that over the last 40 years of the internet not one fediverse like server or community has survived or even been mildly popular?

I’ll repost this because for some reason the other post got deleted, it was regarding lemm.ee shutting down, they were concerned that one of the largest Lemmy instances is shutting down and the future of Lemmy:

You’re 100% right to be concerned and to be honest I have doubts lemmy will ever crack more than a few million users, the same thing happened with Mastodon, something that relies so heavily on volunteers running the infra almost inevitably results in burnout because the fediverse works on a disincentive basis:

Basically the more popular a server is, the more funding it requires, the more admins it requires, the more work it requires, and all of this is on a slim margins or more likely requiring on people to donate time/money/effort ‘for free’ is a huge ask.

The supply of people sitting around doing nothing all day who care enough to dedicate their time/effort/money to running a social network… for free… is a very small group, almost as small as the amount of people who are willing to donate every month to a social network.

You can find mods of communities are usually fans of the communities they mod, it’s a topic they enjoy and so the incentive for them to invest their time is to keep their community clean and great. But running a social network which has hard costs not just time is a whole other thing

This is opposed to a regular website or social media network, where as it gets bigger, it makes more money through ads/subscriptions, the incentive is to get bigger to make more money

And then they can simply pay for the hard costs like hosting costs/bandwidth and people to do the shit no one wants to.

The reality for me is that the money has to come from somewhere, you can do a paywall like newspapers do or beg for donations every page visit like the guardian/wikipedia do, or the usual suspect allow advertising, but the money has to come from somewhere.

Thus the fediverse has a disincentive to growing larger, it is simply easier and more sustainable to remain small

Following the coronavirus crisis, sales had collapsed, making restructuring measures necessary.

I cannot believe it

Rachel Reeves just fell to her knees in a local tesco

grats!

good work Mistral :)

One downside is that it supports locations in Europe only

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lmao that’s pretty much the reason people body shame fat people

i really have seen it all now

cannot come soon enough

I don’t have sources but I think it makes sense logically.

pretty sure most women in a polygamy hate being in them, read more than a few articles about first wives then getting put aside for a younger model but they can’t leave because no money (based islam 🙄)

i always love body positivity unless it’s someone you hate

Maybe so much money you can get other people to raise your kids for you, that kinda money 😎

This makes no sense

Millions of people are prevented from having the number of children they want by a toxic mix of economic barriers and sexism, a new UN report has warned.

How does that gel with the poorest countries in the world with societies that treat women like shit having the highest birth rate?

What did Cloudflare do?

The court ruling has been pretty clear that Google can’t fund them anymore

? Where are you seeing this?

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I get the feeling they’re starting to bunker down in case google stops funding them

Dozens and dozens of journalists were shot this way during the first Trump regime after the George Floyd protests.

And they voted him in again, it seems like a lot of people are real fuckin slow at realising you get what you vote for

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grats to channel 9! this must be huge for them

top story on the guardian and brisbanetimes.com.au and smh!