Th4tGuyII
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Ah, the good old, tried and tested burden of proof switcheroo.
Unlike with religion, we could attempt to prove whether our flying friend is a liar or not… but they won’t like it.
Load them on a plane, boot them from the sky - if they can’t infact fly, then they shall die.
If only religion could be so easily tested as throwing someone out of a plane and watching if they splat or not.
With what I’ve seen of the US, I can see why many people over there would unironically hate cars. Car-centric planning has all but ruined the walkability of most US cities to the point of making it almost obligatory to own a car.
Come over to Europe and you’ll be able to see the difference that planning has had clear as day.
That’s all I see people complain about.
If we can do that here, surely it can’t be that hard to just pick a server on there and follow people, right?
I don’t expect everyone to be a coding wizard, I’m certainly not, but how are so many people still so tech illiterate in this modern day that what essentially boils down to picking an email host is considered difficult??
The old Tripple E is the problem…
Meta come in with open arms embracing ActivityPub. They use our established communities to supplement their own content, and draw in users that would never have heard of this place to sign up to Threads.
All’s going great. But over time they start extending what Threads can do past what ActivityPub can. This “accidentally” starts causing incompatibilities with ActivityPub, which could already cause some users to migrate to Threads.
Once they’ve done this enough, they use their generated incompatibilities as an excuse to defederate from the Fediverse. This forces anybody on this side that still wants to interact with the friends and content they’ve made through Threads to sign up over there leading to an exodus.
If that exodus is big enough, it could be enough to extinguish the Fediverse completely. Meta wins, we lose.
Yeah, interviews suck. It’s basically a contest of who can make themselves sound like they fit the position most whilst reading between the lines.
Like exams, it’s the most artificial way of testing someone’s ability and personality, and almost certainly doesn’t reflect what they’re actually like as a person.
I would discourage telling everyone to go to Lemmy.World as not only could it overload the server, the centralisation problem starts all over again.
The vast majority of instances are federated to all the big ones anyway, so I would recommend looking around to see if there are any instances that better fit your wants before going straight Lemmy.World. You won’t lose anything from it, and you’ll be supporting the wider fediverse.
Each Fediverse instance is just a server running software (I.e. Lemmy, Kbin) that uses the ActivityPub protocol to communicate with other instances.
There is no central authority, that’s kinda the whole point of being federated and decentralised. Each instance is it’s own website, it’s own island. It’d be like asking how “Email” or “Https” would handle illegal content. It doesn’t, it’s up to the hosts themselves to do so.
On a fundemental level, each instance is just a website, so an illegal instance would be tracked down and prosecuted in the same way as any other website/forum doing illegal stuff.
Best you can do is encourage your instance’s admin to defederate from those illegal instances if they haven’t already. Let the authorities handle the rest.
Except that it is clearly satire - it’s poking fun at the idea of anti-intellectualism.
Having said that, one could argue Poe’s law - it can be hard to tell these days what’s satire and what’s not, and not everybody is laughing at anti-intellectualism