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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The population of Seaford, Delaware is around 6k people. It's small enough that this can be personally audited. The administrators will notice if a bunch of random LLCs pop up that they've never heard of. If they're all registered under the same guy, then it'll be doubly obvious what is going on. This could very well go through and be a pretty minor change.

Should it go through? No. The proper avenue would be to say if you live or work in Seaford you can vote. Giving the right to vote to out-of-town owners but not out-of-town employees is harmful.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

You posted the exact same image here. You should probably read the sidebar, especially rule 3: "No Spam."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If major companies want to be on the fediverse, they're welcome to make their own kbin/lemmy/mastodon accounts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yes, absolutely. People will frequently use either term interchangeably when talking about electricity. It's less likely in a scientific or engineering context of course, but it occasionally does happen.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This kind of ruling would make sense for a $20 bicycle, but I'd expect the bar for mutual agreement to be higher for a shipment of $60,000 worth of flax.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

And the idea of them taking on the risk is absurd. Corporations are legal constructs with the explicit intent of insulating owners from the downside risks of their companies. If they actually wanted to take on the risk, they'd just pay everyone from their checking account, if the corporation goes bankrupt, they go bankrupt.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

With the hazard that such a large organization has, and the likely vested interest Meta has in destroying or absorbing the Fediverse, I feel that the default should be defederate, and only if Meta has proven to be acting in good faith, we can federate with them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

For the most part, you can browse different instances from any of them. You can make accounts on others if you particularly like the community or interface, but you don't get much of an advantage.

[–] [email protected] 152 points 2 years ago (23 children)

And that's exactly what's supposed to happen. Instance wars and eventual defederation and fragmentation are important moderation tools, and will progress the culture and feel of instances and regions of the Fediverse. Many instances will form federated cliques that are highly connected and have similar vibes and cultures, and some will be federated with multiple cliques, showing users a variety of cultures and situations.

If the Fediverse reaches a large enough number of people, it can support multiple independant cliques, and enable users see entire mini-universes with different communities and vibes.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

They definitely want to know about your sex life. Advertisers want to target pregnant/expecting women, happily married people, unhappily married people, men in dry spells, gay men, lesbians, kinksters and so on. Even if they're not marketing sexual products, advertisers will want to target those groups.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

That's what Google does with search and advertising, isn't it? They take everything they can see and use it to make money.

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