simontherockjohnson

Right, but what I'm saying the design to need these things was likely based on Deepin running their own distro. They don't have to consider the security guidelines of other distros like KDE or Gnome, XFCE or Enlightenment would.

This is what vertical integration between distros and GUIs often leads to. This could be completely innocuous from Deepin's end, because that's just how they made it work in Deepin because they have vertical integration on their own stack. However, It's completely bad form.

In general Deepin seems to adopt a lot of commercial software industry practices in building its tools, which I'm sympathetic to on some level, but it's very obvious that the Linux community is not going to accept default-on telemetry. They should have known better after the CNZZ incident.

Yeah the better way is the people who want to upload whatever the fuck they want start their own instance or pay an existing instance for hosting.

The issue here is people want shit that costs money for free be cause they're used to a gigantic corporation that subsidizes a mountain of unending trash with a surveillance capitalist ad platform.

The entitlement here is insane. This is a community tool not a product. It doesn't owe anyone comparable service for a comparable price to YouTube.

This is such ZIRP Redditor brain, people aren't owed free services! Lemmy doesn't owe anyone free speech! PeerTube doesn't owe anyone hosting! Neither do the corporate behemoths, it's just that they don't give a shit about someone's shitty behavior because they're too busy making money selling them ads for SquareSpace and the US Army.

The migration to these tools is because ZIRP is over and the free services are being hollowed out and monetized to a much higher degree. We all lived a charmed treat-based online life between 2009 and 2024 that came from companies scamming the market by leveraging interest rates to give us shit below cost. Now the bill is coming due and the addicts of these platforms hate that their toys are being taken away and they expect other tools to feed their addictions.

What's worse is that it's actually cheaper than ever to get symmetric fiber internet in many regions of the country and truly do self-hosting, compared to being stuck on oversubscribed cable, DSL, and dialup. You used to have to pay $1,000 a month for a T1 to do that. Now you can pay $100 for 1 gig symmetric fiber.

There are solutions everywhere for this, people simply don't want to do the work and pay for them because what they want is to be addled by an ad based ZIRP model that was always going to implode.

Vaxry is not a very smart guy. He originally got a wrist slap by FDO saying don't do your toxic shit here. Then he followed it up by going postal on the FDO mailing list. Then he put up a blog post where he was like like "SJWs are coming for me".

https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2023-inclusiveActivists

The entire argument is that you can't make an exclusionary space for people (no definition of what that means) but you should be able to call them slurs. Who would want anything to do with him? He should have gone full tilt and made a list of slurs you should be allowed to say beyond just arguing for the R-slur. That would have really convinced people he's not an extremely toxic right wing weirdo.

https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2023-hyprlandsCommunity

This was his non-apology where he says "lets be real" a lot which is a common way of just ignoring a criticism and then he follows it up with, I should have banned that user instead of doing what I did.

Asking for professionalism in the OSS community is not a huge deal. It's also quite literally not even about the code AFAIR Drew Devault is still taking Vaxry's patches. He just doesn't want him in the community starting shit with people.

I would much prefer the much nicer, organically grown mid-density residential areas of Western Europe

Yeah everyone would prefer to be rich rather than to be poor.

It's funny/sad. When UAE signed the Geneva convention their terms were we promise not to commit genocide as long as you promise you don't have jurisdiction to prosecute us through the ICJ.

• Janitor
• Babysitter
• Contortionist

The chilling effect this causes will make communities even more like echo-chambers, as dissent will be pre-emptively squashed.

If only there was a tool that allowed you to host an instance on a federated network that allowed you to make your own community and control how the rest of the network can interact with it. Why has nobody built this???

come around on social programs.

Wat.

Anarchists are the ones who are consistently making social programs from scratch. Direct action is and has always been about feeding people as well as sabotaging bulldozers.

https://foodnotbombs.net/new_site/