Yep, straight from Macarena to Tubthumping and nobody even noticed.

I’m still waiting for .rar so I can buy unregistered.rar, which is the way it’s meant to be.

Because it’s no longer 1996 and there are domains beyond ccTLDs and com/net/org?

Goons are responsible for the destruction of so many good things on the internet. Best $10 I’ve ever spent.

That’s a misquote: it’s “There is no ethical consumption under capitalism”. It’s basically saying that you, as a consumer, cannot legitimately make ethical decisions when buying, because the entire system is built on being exploitative, and thus any decision you make cannot be ethical because the choices you have are already the result of exploitation by the time you’re making the decision.

A good example is the “going green” fad: it does not matter which consumption choices you make, because your choices are effectively irrelevant. You spend a little bit more money for the “green” product, and that money will go directly to megacorporations that are exploiting and polluting on a scale that so outstrips your ability to combat it. Thus, your “more ethical” choice did absolutely nothing but fund the exact same polluters and environmental exploiters as if you had not made the “green” choice in the first place.

Yep, you’ll only get content that someone on your instance has subscribed to, so if that’s the only subscription that’s the only content that’ll show up.

Nope, assuming the default settings - that is, they’ve not explicitly decided to allowlist selected servers or block yours - there’s nothing that instance has to do if you subscribe to a community on it.

They’ll push content to you and it just magically works.

TLDR: federation is basically a push from the origin server (the one the community belongs to) to any server that subscribes to that community.

This feels like the same anti-FOSS FUD that was there 20 years ago against linux: ‘it’s not ready!’ and ‘who will provide support?’ and ‘it’s too hard for people to figure out!’ and ‘how can you make money if it’s free?’ and so on.

Of course, the whole world runs on Linux now and it’s eaten the lunch of every single proprietary competitor… it just took more than a week to do it, which is far too long of a cycle if you’re a clickbait “journalist” on corpo-owned media.

I was trying to be a little kinder, but yeah, that’s my general opinion.

It’s one reason I like code that’s actually owned by a foundation/organization that has all that pesky oversight and meetings and politicking because it makes things MUCH harder to be unilaterally sold out from under their users: it DOES happen, but it’s not just writing a check to one guy and hey presto next week your shit is broken/infested with malware/vanishes without a trace.

They have their own problems and require funding to actually operate as intended, but it’s at least a layer between the ‘I made this’ meme and the users of the software.

Came here to say this. Open source isn’t a noble crusade, and developers are not monks with vows of poverty.

Until we get unlimited gay space communism, people will always take the money and avoiding that truth and acting shocked when they do at least listen to the people with unlimited money will always lead to disappointment.

Funny, when Google started building fiber, ISPs threw a fit and tried to make it illegal in a lot of places for big tech to build broadband networks.

So uh, which is it guys?

HA is pretty nice, but has a pretty big learning curve.

As for avoiding turning your internet into a IoT botnet, you need network gear that can segregate clients and prevent internet access, and to pick devices that have a local-only API which is not something everything has.

The real question - and this is coming from someone who spent way more time than I’d like to admit with HA automating things - is what you’re expecting. I absolutely wouldn’t bother doing a setup again because once the shiny wore off, all I use this for is setting a temperature and turning lights on and off: two things the hardware vendor apps does just fine.

It’s great, unless for some reason it doesn’t work, and that’s kinda an unfortunate state of things for what is still pretty early software. Matter should help simplify things since it’ll be less 100 vendors, 100 APIs you have to support which is kinda the state of being right now.

Also don’t buy anything from Belkin, screw those guys.

It’s not just the difficulty, it’s that the fediverse runs on reputation.

If you get a reputation for being an instance that has offensive/illegal content, you’ll get defederated and your users will get a materially worse experience than the rest of the instances that are federating with each other - and it really only takes one or two things to get that reputation.

sh.itjust.works is a prime example: it didn’t take an awful lot to get them down the defederation road, and I suspect most admins would want to maintain their reputation and an easy way to do it (until we get like… moderation tools) is to just gatekeep what communities show up on your instance.

As a counterpoint to that: any new community that gets created on an instance is now a possible liability the site admins have to own.

Makes a lot of sense that you wouldn’t want anyone to make anything on your site, since that’s how you end up with /r/jailbait, and /r/fatpeoplehate and so on.

Seems reasonable you’d want to make sure you understand who is creating what and why on a platform you’re ultimately responsible for.

IANAL, but I did spend a few years handling DMCA/Trademark takedown requests for an IaaS provider.

The answer is ‘Yeah, probably, but’, in most cases. If your instance is actively sharing copyrighted media, say, a stolen photo, and you get a DMCA and you’re in a jurisdiction where the DMCA applies (which is, of course, a US law and not some global copyright cartel) you probably are going to have to comply and remove the content.

If it’s just a link to content, say an embedded youtube video, you likely don’t need to comply since embedded content isn’t hosted on your server and thus isn’t something you can ‘remove’, but that’s a situation where shit gets murkier.

TLDR; it’s complicated but if the URL for the claimed infringing material is hosted by you and you get a notice you probably have to take action to remove the content in the URL.