The apps don’t actually help disabled people, they just exploit and rip them off.

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Well, you could organize with your communities to force your county to switch to green power instead of running coal plants non-stop.

Being politically active is one of the best things you as an individual could do.

They’re a proto-government really.

All governments do horrific things because all a government is is the most powerful organized violent group in an area. That’s all government ever has been.

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I hope they’re wise enough to beam the power down close to the wifi frequency so it can’t, in fact, be used as a James Bond superweapon. But evil people could in principle build their own arrays and antennae up there to have just that.

I will leave and block any instance that federates with Meta, including this one, and go start my own instance, and only federate with others that also block it if I have to. Don’t you dare allow their corporate garbage into our space 😠

Sure, why not.

I’ve moderated several subs back on Reddit, and I run the Real LGBTQ community here, so I know the score.

Karma is an inherently destructive thing for many reasons. For people, it is a representation of other people’s approval of you, so they’ll do anything to boost that number as highly as possible, even going so far as to make fake karma farming accounts, create botnets to upvote themselves and downvote opponents in arguments, and post garbage content instead of engaging in meaningful conversation with other people. For corporations, it’s a marketing tool they can exploit to manipulate public opinion, by creating or buying high-karma accounts to convince people to buy shit, or to mass downvote people who point out flaws in their arguments or products, or figure out what they’re planning and try to call them on it. They can use karma to discredit opponents, astroturf, and even sway elections indirectly. It’s one of the reasons why civil and political discourse have completely collapsed in the USA.

That list is not exhaustive

You literally can just download the Lemmy program and install it on any computer you want to use as a server. I used to run Mastodon servers a few years ago, and it’s not without its hurdles, but with some Linux knowledge and a little bit of server admin knowhow, you absolutely could.

You’d need a computer you’re gonna use as a server, put Linux on it, then install NginX or Apache on it, then Lemmy, then set everything up and get a domain name to attach to the computer’s IP. Question mark, profit. It might be a bit of an oversimplification, but with some research and work, it can be done.

We could self-host using our own computers and infrastructure, and secure them from hackers.

1. Discourage people from using karma. You actually can turn off scores in your settings.

2. If any instance decides to put advertising on itself, leave immediately and get everyone else to do the same.

Soda companies could literally just switch to stevia or monk fruit tomorrow and it wouldn’t be a problem. The only issue is their refusal to change.

Oh. Well, I think mine might be the only game in town on this instance so far. Part of the reason why I made it. Site’s still new and growing.

Um, from the way the fediverse works, you can see messages and such from other instances like lib.lgbt, but I am not sure if you can directly post there from one server to another. Your posts get sent to the other servers for viewing like how emails get sent to other servers so your recipient can read them, and that’s the most I’ve been able to make sense of it so far.

I started Real LGBTQ earlier and it’s picking up steam, you can come hang out with us. It’s pretty peaceful.

In terms of instances, I found lib.lgbt and it seems pretty nice too.