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That's not what I'm assuming. The assumption isn't that it's the USA or any country at all. The assumption most people make is that they and their actions are covered under the laws of their locality.

But my initial comment was the one you took umbridge to. And that original comment involved it being confusing for new users. So regardless of whether there were alternatives at the time I signed up or not, and regardless of whether people will move or would choose another instance if they knew, the point that it is confusing still stands and you haven't really successfully argued that it's not confusing.

Also, there are other fediverse projects besides Lemmy. Perhaps I would have gone to one of those before coming to Lemmy.

If you don't think that people naturally assume that their Internet usage will be subject to their local laws, you're missing the point entirely. People don't think that using the internet and making statements that are legal where they live will get them in trouble with law enforcement entities the world over and they definitely don't think that they will get other people in trouble with local authorities in some other country. They don't think about this at all. There is an inherent assumption being made and it's not that the website itself is American or German or Chinese. It's that they will be more likely to make the assumption that their conduct will be viewed through the lens they are familiar with.

If the intention is clarity then more clarity up front is always a plus.

It was not for the purposes of bombing. It was for the purposes of recognition of their military aircraft and weapons systems.

I learned all the states at a 4th grader. Perhaps earlier even. I generally believe this is not a case of people not being taught, but a case of people not paying attention or otherwise info-dumping information they don't think they need.

There was a point when i was in the military where I could literally write in the names of every country in the world on a blank map. It's been years since I had to do that and I wouldn't be able to do it now.

I'm going to say something that I just want people to think about.

Part of the allure of TV and video games is the idea that they are something you can do after working 8-12 hours a day that doesn't ask anything of you. You can just sit and go through the motions. There is nothing being required. No deadlines. No bills. No stress. Not even attention if you don't want to.

It's something of a detox from a world that is always trying to extract productivity from you.

Because that is the case and because we have let the world creep in on any and all personal time we have to the point that we are afraid to not always be connected. While always being connected has a lot of positives (family always being just a phone call away, friends having an avenue to interact etc), there are obvious detriments as well.

At the same time we have moved to a significantly digital age where there's not anything to do outside that doesn't cost money in some way. Transportation, venue, food, drinks, parking etc.

I think what's happening is that due to these and other factors, adults and kids don't have the headspace to do more than veg out sometimes and the times when I see people doing that are while they're waiting around or on break or when they get home from work or school.

The short form video is the kind of thing that allows you to veg out to some extent. It also offers the chance to feel like you're being interacted with (humans showing you something they think is neat or interesting or funny or stupid).

We make the mistake of assuming that everything we do has to be if some substance. I don't think that's necessary. I think it's healthy to give your brain a time and place free from the demands of everyday life. We discourage daydreaming or wandering off in our thoughts. We discourage a lot of healthy brain downtime actions.

The corporate aspect of it is obviously not good. But when you realize we are more productive than we have ever been as a species, spending more hours working, and going to school than we do in leisure, I don't think it's necessarily terrible that we take a break from that when and where we can.

The peaceful protest has a purpose. It is the purpose of due diligence. It is to show an escalation. A point at which other avenues were tried and ignored leaving one with no choice but to try others that are more militant. You try all the avenues. And leave the last resort as a last resort. But historically we know that more often than not real change happens when there is either the threat of violence or the actuality of violence.

People as a whole don't seem to be invested until it impacts them. It's hard to impact people enough with peaceful protest to change their minds. That's why blocking highways or major thoroughfares were threatened with violence. Because the point of protest is twofold. It is to educate. But more importantly it is to inconvenience people. Because without the inconvenience, they do not get invested.

But if they move to another instance, then the LW rules don't apply to them anymore, so no need to change the sign up page?<<

You said it yourself. Inertia is a thing. Some people move on. Some people don't and probably won't.

Clarity is important if we're talking about enforcing a TOS to comply with the law. Especially when the average Lemmy instance owner doesn't just have a team of lawyers on retainer.

The point I'm making though is a lot of people (perhaps myself included) wouldn't have come to lemmy.world at all if they had known that they'd be beholden to laws they had never even heard of and aren't normally subject to in their daily lives.

I don't think what I'm suggesting (I'm not pushing to enact the stuff I suggested) is all that unreasonable. But of course it's not up to me, and probably not even up to the majority of Lemmy.world users.

But the .world part of the name is something of a misnomer if you consider how confusing it may be to new users, especially if this is their first foray into the fediverse.

I haven't decided it's worth the time to vet another instance to move to and transfer everything I have set up over to that new instance.

Though this wasn't handled the way I would have personally handled it, I'm largely not too bothered about the changes because I'm unlikely to ever run afoul of them.

Even though I absolutely believe that karma is a thing, and you get out of the world what you put into it, at the end of the day I'm not on Lemmy (or any other platforms) to advocate for the death of people. Probably the closest I have ever gotten is saying something like "eat the rich" and that's meant to be taken as having a healthy dose of sarcasm.

Don't skip the bit about how many people often do not read the TOS or EULA. That's important to what I am saying. I was literally told when asking about Lemmy instances that lemmy.world was THE recommendation for instances specifically because it was so large and active as a result. Just because there are other instances where the users are local to the locale of the instance doesn't necessarily undermine my point since what we're talking about is lemmy.world specifically.

And anything with a .uk or similar is more likely to be identified at first glance as being for that locale which means more of the users would naturally gravitate towards it. Like it or not lemmy.world is a jumping off point for lots of users, plenty of whom move on to other instances (some of which may be an instance more local to them).

That's at pretty much the very bottom of the TOS and given the number of people who skim or don't even read TOS and EULA's (and the number of jurisdictions that have ruled they aren't a binding agreement), I'd say something directly on the sign up page is warranted. Additionally this information is not anywhere that I can find on any sidebar or about section.

People don't often "look" for instances specific to their locale when joining Lemmy. That's a lot of the reason this instance is so large. I would wager that most people who are users of this instance do not know that this instance is based in Scandinavia (and Germany). I bet most of them are also unfamiliar with the laws and regulations of those countries as well.

I don't necessarily think that the wording helps in the case of marijuana legalisation. For instance, I can absolutely argue that an instance of jury nullification in the case of a marijuana user or dealer in a state where the accused was charged before legalisation took effect but who is not being offered clemency under the new law is justified. People should be able to voice opinions. And the wording they used isn't better for this purpose given the hypothetical I just posed or other hypotheticals I could give.

I agree that it would be. But enacting it and the methods necessary to do so are what I think the other guy is referring to.

That's an oversimplification of both the history and the situation.