Can’t blame em for trying to win the cat/mouse game of adblocking.

IDK; I blame them.

YouTube has become part of the world’s social infrastructure. In a way, it is the town square.

Frankly it should be publicly owned.

As it says, several countries already gave in

Do we actually need people afraid of CLIs to host anything? Sounds like a hassle.

It’s because they need you to have all the spyware installed.

Collecting all your data is part of their business model now

Exactly. Reddit was dominated by small groups of controlling mods.

Decentralization means freedom to try something better.

[removed by reddit]

Typical corporate lawyer speak.

We’ll have to see, but by my past experiences with Tankies and other authoritarians, I don’t expect reasonable behavior.

No, they’re trying to force them into their app.

Since the developers are the problem, it’s probably not likely they’ll implement. But I’ll keep on eye on this and maybe contribute if there is a soft fork.

One nice thing about kbin is that it isn’t run by pro genocide, North Korea loving Tankies.

And they removed my comments among others, for calling the Chinese state a colonial and imperialist state.

I have to hope that main instances will stop federating Lemmygrad at some point. There’s no place, IMO, for genocide denial/affirmation and authoritarian extremism on platforms like these. Or any platforms.

Edit: Seems this is unfortunately unlikely as the lemmy.ml instance appears to be moderated by a genocide denier and authoritarian.

What concerns me just now is whether join-lemmy the website is controlled by them or not. So far I don’t know if it is- But if the entry points are guarded by genocide-supporting (not denying) left-fascists, then that does pose a significant issues.

BTW, these ifs I’m using aren’t rhetoric devices. I’m not stating this as fact. There seems to be indicators of concern- Is what I’m saying.

The evidence I’ve seen is compiled mainly in these posts:

https://raddle.me/f/lobby/88428/so-the-dengist-who-made-lemmy-has-announced-raddle-isn-t-an https://raddle.me/wiki/why_raddle https://raddle.me/wiki/history https://raddle.me/wiki/QnA_with_Emma

https://www.vice.com/en/article/zm3wbj/radical-leftists-built-their-own-reddit-after-it-banned-them

The most disturbing thing I’ve seen is the evidence that Lemmy.ml is controlled by a genocide-supporting red fascist/third positionists. If that’s true, its a massive issue and makes the platform hard to trust.

Very open to learning that this isn’t true, if it isn’t.