Most users are in US or western Europe timezones I would guess.

Although you could say the whole planet has a bit of a heart beat. Surely there are fewer people awake when the Pacific ocean faces the sun?

Remember the whole “if you aren’t paying for the product, you are the product”?

It wasn’t enough to turn you into a product. Now they also want to turn you into a resource. Farming your comments and posts to feed to an AI model.

What an economy we’ve built.

It isn’t about “winning”. Lemmy can coexist with any Fediverse application, and that’s the beauty of it. Everyone on the Fediverse wins.

Lemmy devs decided to exclude lemmy.world from the join-lemmy site because it’s too big. Obviously that removes a lot of active users.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/pull/358

I’m so incredibly grateful that the EU is really trying to fix the internet. Also grateful to organization like the EFF that try to do the same. I recently became a donor as I think their work really is critical.

Can you believe the shit these companies would do if it wasn’t for the EU and their regulation? It’d be a dystopia (well, more than it already is at least).

Whenever you see something like this, please just report the post as spam, block the user and petition your community moderators to recruit more mods, especially in other time zones.

Even better, volunteer as mod yourself.

Also please tell your admins to use an application rather than just the captcha - the captchas are easily broken.

Kind of cute but also kind of sad. Love is sometimes also a leap of faith and trust. It seems like they never really trusted each other, or themselves, to still love each other.

Personally I think marriage is not about force, but about trust. It’s a confession of trust in your partner.

You can’t delete any text in comments or posts either - or at least not reliably, as any federated instance could choose to ignore deletions.

You should basically consider what you write or post here public, and probably public for good. But here’s the thing - same goes for the entire rest of the Internet as well, basically.

Musk has marketed it as the world’s “town square"

He says it so clearly here which makes me wonder how people don’t realize it:

How fucked up would it be if your actual town square was owned by a private company?

A private company that is in control of who is allowed to talk and what they are allowed to say. A private company that even decides what you hear and see while walking the square. Meanwhile also shovelling ads in front of you while you try to find the people you actually want to engage with.

“Social” media owned by private corporations is not social. Such media is anti-social, corporate control of public spaces that ought to belong to the people, just like they mostly do in real life.

No, Firefox doesn’t have bugs with your store. Your store has bugs.