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That's why I like this place. Feels very old school somehow. And it's an actual protocol, like back before everything was the same handful of companies running everything with their own BS software.
It really does feel a lot like the old forums are back, but now they can talk to each other. This should have happened a decade ago!
To me it feels pretty much like reddit so far. Maybe I've just gotten very good at ignoring reddit's corporate bullshit though.
At least every third post isn’t a flagrant ad poorly hidden as “this cool thing I discovered, you might find it cool too!”
I'm so glad I've had an adblocker for so long <_<
Guess I was referring more to the posts that were trying to be passed off as not an ad that were definitely trying to shill for something.
kinda reminds me of the old internet when no one knew wtf was going on and everyone was just doing weird shit for fun
Okay but how do I not do weird shit for three days straight?
be a little more creative
Who will be accountable for abuse in the future? How does legal apply to cross-federated occurrences?
I've been wondering this. If a comment contains illegal content, which is possible in some cases, and blame can be extended beyond the commenter to the content provider, which is also possible, then is every instance the comment federates across culpable?
Best to look at federated instances as more official, set-in-stone subreddits. They all (usually) have rules and most of the time the instance is not responsible for a single person doing actions like that. If a kick or ban is also swiftly given, that usually also voids the instance owners of any illegal content.
Companies aren't responsible for it so I doubt instances will get in trouble.
The EU is controversially making moves to place responsibility upon the companies. Plus, more than one country, recently Canada, has introduced a "link tax", a backass absurd regulation, where link aggregators have to pay news sites for clicks through to their articles. Would every Lemmy instance be responsible for tracking and paying for clicks of an article federated from any one instance?
The freedom of expression is relieving and oddly something I forgot existed. There has been so much censorship and polticial correctness that it has ruined what made the old internet fun.
I would love to see Youtube be next in federation migration!