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Looks just like a cat I used to have!

I hope to god that's a joke :P

That's interesting. I've been using a wireguard config for Surfshark and no such issues. It's been a while since I last used it though. What version of SteamOS are you on?

None really. Maybe some niche tech demos or proof of concepts, but I don't think RT has any real place on the deck.

I would love to see conservatives take an interest in electoral reform. It's so often seen as a left issue because the NDP and Greens push for it, but the world "proportion representation" is as the name sounds. It treats all parties equally and has no bias to left or right.

As an Albertan if PR were to come here I could kiss the left ever winning goodbye because the NDP (centrist in Alberta) only has a chance when the right splits the vote. I'd still take it even if it meant my party wouldn't win because it's the fair thing to do.

Thank you for the clarification. It's most likely the battle pass that he bought.

I suppose you could, but it's done this way on purpose to reduce load on the server. As soon as a user from that instance starts flowing the community from another instance, that server has to keep track of all updates in that community to be able to deliver it to you.

Essentially, if none of the instances users are following that community, why bother with keeping track of it. If you wrote a bot to subscribe to everything your server load would skyrocket and so would the costs.

I think it's much more likely that a better community browser will be incorporated so that people don't have to rely on third party sites.

Absolutely. This is a power grab and nothing more. They will come for those apps next.

I was trying to stress the importance of this to a friend but he doesn't mind using the official Reddit app. I told him that they're coming for old reddit.com next and he got quiet. It's not a matter of if, but a matter of when.

That honestly sounded terrible until you said they were selling the work branded attire at cost. I suppose that's not too bad a situation.

I think your underestimating how real the battle against spam still is in the email space. If you use Gmail you've got a huge company doing the work for you. If you work in IT and run a corporate mail server you'll see that we pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for anti-spam/phishing filtering.

Bot spam is totally separate and unfortunately I don't see how you'd be able to port the work over.

Administrators need to be very careful about who they degenerate because being too trigger happy could be disastrous as you said.

Since people like to use the geographic analogy of countries/cities, communities should be gathering areas like a town hall where people discuss similar topics but instances would be like a city/country/state or whatever.

You don't never speak to your neighbor again just because he's a leftist or a capitalist. You never speak to them again if he and his family all start throwing their dog's poop at your windows. We're forgetting how to converse with people and it's a big problem online and in real life.

We should absolutely be defederating instances dedicated to child porn and other illegal activities, and if there's an instance that's responsible for brigading or attacks then sure. But opposing viewpoints should not be a valid reason to defederate, IMO. If we go down that slope of not being able to tolerate someone else's different views then we are doomed.

Then we'll know we've truly "made it".