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EndOfLine, 11 months ago

The Wagner Group that is accused of being war criminals?

The Wagner Group which was declared a Transitional Criminal Organization by the US Treasury Dept?

The Wagner Group facing possible designation as a terrorist organization?

Is that the group looking for new recruits?

EndOfLine, 11 months ago

Source unknown (or forgotten). Happy to provide the source if anybody knows it.

EndOfLine, 11 months ago

You understand correctly. Migrating an instance would involve updating the source of truth to a different instance, and somehow notifying all other instances to stop checking the old instance and start checking the new.

Maybe ActivityPub (the protocol the Fediverse is built on) already has a method for assigning redirects, but I would have so many questions. What happens to instances that are experiencing an outage during the migration? What happens with blocked instances if that block is removed after the migration? How long would the redirect notice live? What if a new community with the same name is created on the original instance? What happens to old links pointing to the old instance? Personally, implementing such a feature sounds like a huge headache.

As for what happens to an an instance once it is orphaned (say the instance with the "true" community blocks another instance or goes dark), then the orphaned copies will become little islands that are only accessible to members on the orphaned instance and any comments, votes, etc are no longer shared across the Fediverse.

EndOfLine, 11 months ago

I left PIA after they were aquired by Kape (formerly Crossrider). There's a lot of shady past there, from their ties to Israeli surveillance and intelligence organization (Unit 8200) to their history of producing malware. It just made me uncomfortable, so I moved to ProtonVPN and have been very happy there.

https://restoreprivacy.com/private-internet-access-kape-crossrider/

EndOfLine, 11 months ago

Each instance will have it's own rules and has the capacity to include or exclude other instances.

For example, you want a work friendly instance that does not index NSFW, gambling, drug use, or hate speach. Chances are that you can find and join that instance. You'll see posts from instances that aren't blocked and your posts will be shared with instances that have not blocked yours.

If you want to switch, then you need to create a new account on the new instance. You can maintain accounts on both instances, but they would be separate accounts.

Additionally, if you want to be ruler supreme, and are willing / able to do the tech work, you can set up your own instance that only you and those you invite are able to join. This instance would join the Federated community to share content based on settings.

I know instances can block pulling in content from other instances, but I am not sure if they can block broadcasting content.

EndOfLine, 11 months ago

Still new to the Fediverse, but here's how I understand it.

• Lemmy is like Reddit
• Mastodon is like Twitter
• Matrix is like Discord

EndOfLine, 11 months ago

Never realized that I was missing this in my life. It'll be nice to have a place where my love of pineapple on pizza will be accepted.

EndOfLine, 11 months ago

Doesn’t Germany have laws against certain hate speech? Would those laws apply to lemmy.world and it’s hosted content?

EndOfLine, 11 months ago

Diversity and exposure to new ideas.

Whether I agree with the idea or not, breing exposed to so many different points of view changes how I look at various topics. Sometimes it reinforces and strengthens my position and sometimes I change my stance.

I feel like Reddit (and now Lemmy) allow me to engage / listen to discussions on an issue. Discussions that involve a wide assortment of different viewpoints. It's hard to find that in most places on the internet.

EndOfLine, 11 months ago

I like to think that Lemmy is transitioning from early adopters to First Followers (to take from this Ted talk

If only 10% of new users stay, they start to build out new servers and communities. As Reddit continues to degrade, some (maybe even most) of those 90% will start to trickle back, creating lasting growth and widespread adoption (vs the casual tourism).

EndOfLine, 11 months ago

When I was a kid somebody told me that McDonald's uses wider straws to encourage people to drink faster and therefore subconsciously encourage them to buy larger drinks. Is that true? I have no idea, but I do know that those straws made excellent blow guns for shooting Tic Tacs across a classroom.