Not all FOSS projects need to be profitable to survive. IOW if a project cannot survive without being profitable and it cannot be profitable long-term, then it cannot survive long-term.

I just replied to the other person’s comment.

I don’t. Could you elaborate?

While Linux itself isn’t proprietary, it supports loading proprietary firmware/microcode blobs and running on proprietary hardware. Thus, part of the Linux hardware/software stack is proprietary.

I’m surprised that other people are surprised that for-profit companies constantly try to increase their profits; such companies only contribute to FOSS when that’s more profitable than the alternative. The Linux kernel, AMDGPU, Steam, etc only exist because some part of the software/hardware stack is proprietary (which becomes a more attractive product as the FOSS portion of the stack improves).

I’m definitely not justifying the “rug-pulling”, but people need to stop supporting projects with no potential for long-term profitability unless those projects can survive without any support from for-profit companies. Anything else is destined to fail.

Maybe I’m Jia Tan 😉

Meh, it’s a hobby. Lots of people talk about their hobbies.

Still a funny comic, though.

SMH my head

That’s what my “friend” did. Reddit banned every account he used on his phone at once, but with a different IP, desktop browser, and cookie isolation, they haven’t noticed so far. He might sound like some professional troll, but he was actually banned for a stupid reason.

If you mean initiating connections from one computer on your local network to another, you need to install and enable avahi-daemon (or some other mDNS daemon) on the “fancy” one. Your router also needs to support and enable mDNS forwarding, but basically all of them do by default. Then just use your-hostname.local in place of the local IP address, and your computer will automatically resolve it using mDNS. It’s different than regular DNS, so it doesn’t need any special configuration to use it. And word to the wise: don’t use uppercase or special characters in your hostname.

Beehaw defederated with instances because they didn’t want to interact with its users. If the users of those instances migrate to another instance en masse, then Beehaw will defederate with that instance as well. Give up on interacting with Beehaw, because they don’t want the same things that people not registered on Beehaw want.

The issue is that due to the different defederation policies, if you want to communicate to the whole fediverse audience, you need to both.

Besides Beehaw, have any other big instances defederated from lemmy.world? I don’t think defederation is a widespread issue.

Anyone on any other instance could reply with the word “downvote” and it would have the same effect. Users on the same instance could do that too, but typically people who join such instances agree with its sentiment.

If it becomes a big enough problem, other instances can de-federate with problematic instances. I don’t like de-federation, but I also don’t like disabling downvotes.

Users who can’t handle downvotes on their own instance clearly can’t be trusted with downvotes elsewhere.

I don’t care about the n word specifically, but I think it’s a good example of something that can be positive or negative depending on the context. There was a similar post about the q word. My concern is more generally about limiting what people can do with their own hardware.

Your style of argument has been used to argue against many different kinds of personal rights and freedoms that most people now recognize as important. It seems that the slur filter was removed a little while ago, but my point still stands.

What role do you think Lemmy developers should have in limiting the way that private instances can be used?

For example, (IIRC) you can’t say the n word on any unmodified Lemmy instance—even one that you host yourself. I wonder what other such limitations are currently in place or may be added in the future. Can any open source contributor add such a limitation?

Edit: Regardless of whether you think such limitations are appropriate, I think it’s an important question. I also expressed this comment in a neutral manner.

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