Ulrich

Except the specific distro you use impacts your choices and the future direction and success of Linux as a whole.

If you pick the single enshittified distro then you serve to perpetuate it's influence.

You think they're manufacturing their own hardware?

There are plenty of potential alternatives in such a wild scenario.

It doesn't matter what software you use. There's no point to hashtags on Lemmy. It's just a fundamentally different platform in that way. And I find it incredibly annoying that Masto, Twitter, and other microblogging platforms will tag everyone who was ever involved in a thread. Character limits are stupid and remove all nuance from any conversation. Not to mention all those automated tags eat into your character limits and just add a bunch of clutter for no reason. If you reply to someone on Lemmy, they get a notification, so the only time you need to tag someone is if you want them to see your comment and you didn't reply specifically to them.

I really hope you don't. Lemmy is a particular type of community and it's already being filled with unnecessary and annoying tags and hashtags. They really don't mesh well together.

We got one of these for my grandmother and it was the only thing she could figure out how to use. Cell phones were too complicated but she could just tap on a picture of someone and call them and that was simple enough. Downside is she was calling all hours of the day and night LOL.

It's not true. Not even close.

Thank you

Good riddance.

The far right in the US argues that "free speech" means forcing large SM orgs to give them a platform

Yes that's what it means. The platforms are under no obligation to give it to them, but if they don't allow certain types of speech, that is the definition of censorship (the opposite of free speech). It is their prerogative as a private platform to censor speech.

and this UN goon seems to think it means silencing "hate speech" (I guess freedom from speech?).

The UN goons think silencing hate speech is not censorship. It is. Let's stop playing senseless semantics games and just own it. Say "yes we are censoring hate speech" because arguing that it's not is dishonest.

Like they went and investigated you to find out what your work email is and then applied it to your profile without your consent?

what does that mean if not the right to free speech?

It just means being allowed to say what you want. It has nothing to do with rights or laws.

Just because the far right tries to change the definition

Uhhhh that's the opposite of what's happening. The UN is the one trying to change the definition to pretend it means something other than what it does.

letting them say what they want doesn't change anything. That's not free speech,

Yes. That is the very definition of free speech.

that's restricting the platform owner's speech.

The platform is not the one being censored. The users are.